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<\/p>\nRUSH: Carolyn in West Haven, Connecticut.\u00a0 Glad you waited and hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Hi, Rush.\u00a0 It\u2019s a pleasure waiting.\u00a0 Everyone has these lightbulb moments, and mine came today listening to you with my headset on. I decided that I\u2019m gonna take the Rush Limbaugh challenge, and from 12 to 3 every day in my business, my headphones come off and the whole business is gonna listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show.\u00a0 If my patients and my gym clients don\u2019t like it, well, God bless America. They have choices; they could go elsewhere.<\/p>\n
And for all the corporate Fox News savants listening to this: Fox News used to be on my TVs. After their conscious decisions to alienate a judge, hire a degenerate from CNN, a back-stabbing opportunist person as Paul Ryan to run their corporation, they have just, if possible, blown their alienated base out of proportion — and you, Rush Limbaugh, and Donald Trump, your viewers, into the stratosphere, the absolutely stratosphere.\u00a0 I am so heated by —<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Let me go back to the beginning here.\u00a0 You obviously have a business of some kind where this program and others are on where people in your office or whatever can listen.\u00a0 Is that right?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Okay, and you\u2019ve decided —<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 You\u2019ve decided that from now on you\u2019re gonna take my advice, turn off the cable news, and just exclusively make this program available to whoever is in your office able to listen.\u00a0 Is that right?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Absolutely correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Okay, and the reason that you\u2019re doing this is because finally Fox News went too far. You have to throw them overboard because…? Run through the list again what happened?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 They made a conscious decision to sanction a judge —<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Who?\u00a0 Wait, wait.\u00a0 Who?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Jeanine Pirro.\u00a0 Judge Pirro.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Oh!\u00a0 Judge Jeanine.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n
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CALLER:\u00a0 They hired a degenerate that couldn\u2019t even make it on CNN, Donna Brazile.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 This is —<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 And they hire an opportunistic, back-stabbing Paul Ryan to be on their board of directors.\u00a0 He is only used Donald Trump to get that tax law passed, and after that it was, “See you later, America. I\u2019m gonna take care of myself,” and I am so… For the savants of Fox News corporate who listen to this show — \u2019cause I know they do — they don\u2019t need to strain their brain.\u00a0 They could go on Twitter, Facebook, and all over.\u00a0 There are millions of Fox viewers who are looking for alternatives.\u00a0 I don\u2019t need to look.\u00a0 I strained this morning. I called Comcast. “What am I gonna do?” and then today I thought, “Oh, wait, I\u2019m gonna take the Rush challenge: 12 to 3, that\u2019s all I need.”<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 That\u2019s all you need.\u00a0 I\u2019m telling you that\u2019s all you need.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s all I need! I\u2019m gonna be happier.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And I tell you, you\u2019re gonna be much better. You\u2019re gonna be happier. You\u2019re not gonna be nearly as pessimistic.\u00a0 Look, hang on here for a second, Carolyn.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Back with Carolyn here in West Haven, Connecticut. I wanted to explain these things that you addressed. Let\u2019s first start with Judge Jeanine. Judge Jeanine got in trouble for saying something about the new esteemed congresswoman from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, saying that a woman who wears the hijab cannot be compatible with the U.S. Constitution if she believes in Sharia law. And if she\u2019s wearing the hijab, she believes in Sharia law, and it\u2019s not compatible — you know, can I ask you something, Carolyn?<\/p>\n
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Do you find it fascinating \u2013 it\u2019s something I still don\u2019t really have the explanation for, it\u2019s so weird. We are attacked on 9\/11, 3,000 Americans are killed by militant Islamist terrorists on 9\/11, 2001. And ever since then we have been portrayed as the problem and not them. And we have been seeking their forgiveness, and we have been apologizing to them, and we have been going out of our way to prove to them that we have nothing against them.<\/p>\n
We didn\u2019t blow them up. They blew us up on 9\/11. Now, they\u2019ll claim, \u201cWell, but you\u2019ve been blowing us up in the Middle East.\u201d It\u2019s all about our support for Israel. But it has just blown my mind how, after 3,000 Americans are murdered on 9\/11, that we apologize, and we\u2019ve been apologizing since that date. And we have been begging forgiveness, and we\u2019ve been making sure there isn\u2019t any Muslim backlash.<\/p>\n
And, meanwhile, Christians are being slaughtered all over the world, and the media doesn\u2019t cover it because it doesn\u2019t fit their narrative. So here comes Judge Jeanine simply voicing this, and I\u2019ll tell you who got her I think suspended. There\u2019s a story going around, I guess Twitter, that Bret Baier demanded this inside Fox. Folks, that is not true.<\/p>\n
This is directly from CAIR, Council for American-Islamic Relations. They\u2019re the ones putting all kinds of pressure here. But there\u2019s nobody inside Fox that is responsible for demanding that management sit down Judge Jeanine for a while. You mentioned Paul Ryan. What was the other thing you mentioned besides —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hiring Donna Brazile as a contributing —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — to the show.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know, she\u2019s not the first liberal Democrat Fox has hired. They\u2019re all over the place on Fox. Why does this one bother you so much?<\/p>\n
CALLER: She got caught cheating. She was fired from CNN. Could Fox not find another person without a background? They\u2019re sending signals to their audience where their viewership is going. There\u2019s no reason — Judge Jeanine didn\u2019t say anything — she didn\u2019t hyperbole it, she didn\u2019t add adjectives. She just stated a fact. I stand by her and her decision.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, this is my point, that Judge Jeanine says something that\u2019s arguably not false. It fits the mold here that somehow after 9\/11, \u201901, we\u2019re the ones that have to apologize, we\u2019re the ones that have to excuse ourselves and ask for forgiveness. Doesn\u2019t make any sense to me. I\u2019ve never understood — you know, the State Department within a month after 9\/11 convened a forum for State Department employees, the title of which was, “Why do they hate us so much?” As though 9\/11 was our fault. We had to come to some kind of understanding, why did they do this to us? It must be something we\u2019ve done. The United States was therefore guilty. I saw that, and think this is happening in the Bush administration.<\/p>\n
I understand your pique about Donna Brazile. She did funnel town hall questions to Hillary. And she did run the DNC during the, shall we say, hacking of the DNC computer scandal and all that. I can\u2019t explain to you why she was hired. I could only speculate. And it would be along the lines of Fox is being targeted by a bunch of people and they\u2019re trying to make themselves a smaller target by showing how fair and balanced they really are, something like that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: They\u2019re losing, Rush, because their audience is gone and the advertisers will go to you. Donald Trump is going to get reelected because he is real people, not a politician. And Fox News is just losing the battle. They\u2019re going to lose more viewers from these decisions they just recently made.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, we\u2019ll see. We\u2019ll see. They\u2019re still cleaning everybody\u2019s clock, particularly in prime time. They are cleaning in what is called the opinionated portions of the Fox —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, there is a low bar to follow. The clock\u2019s not so big. It\u2019s not really who\u2019s out there. Put them up against you, they\u2019d lose. I mean, you know, set a bar higher than the other people that they\u2019re going — set a bar higher than CNN, MSNBC. They don\u2019t have much of a leap and bound to go.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, maybe —<\/p>\n
CALLER: They\u2019re selling back.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There may be something to that. I have to acknowledge that there may be — competition kind of sucks, I agree, but still they\u2019re cleaning their clocks, it doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019re cleaning their clocks, and they have cleaned their clocks for decades, or over 10 years. It\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n
Look. You mentioned Paul Ryan. Now, what\u2019s happening here, Fox is being spun off. It used to be 20th Century Fox, 21st Century Fox, now Fox has done this gigantic deal with Disney, and Fox has gotten very much smaller. They\u2019ve gotten rid of all the movies, all the television studios and so forth, and now it is the TV stations, the Fox News Channel and some other things.<\/p>\n
And Rupert Murdoch\u2019s son Lachlan has been put in charge of it and it is Lachlan Murdoch that went out and got Paul Ryan for this new company to put Paul Ryan on the board. This is commonplace. I mean, this is how crony capitalism or whatever, crony socialism works. Ryan, even though he\u2019s not in government anymore, still has a lot of sway there, still has a lot of power.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like Apple hiring Algore for their board. This is a way corporations interact with Washington. This is how they do it. You\u2019re expecting Fox to be loyal to the audience, and in your view, Paul Ryan is considered a bit of a problem \u2019cause he didn\u2019t support Trump and therefore Fox should have nothing to do with him.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And that\u2019s not how Fox looks at it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, they\u2019re gonna be looking in the rearview mirror, then, because —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, I can\u2019t get too deeply into this \u2019cause there\u2019s some stuff I\u2019m not supposed to know. But there are real concerns over — you know, for the longest time — folks, let me just put it this way. For the longest time, even back when Roger Ailes was the chairman and CEO, the grand pooh-bah, there were fears that elements of Fox management didn\u2019t like Fox as a conservative news channel because they aren\u2019t conservative, and they wanted to move it off the conservative identity and move it back toward the middle.<\/p>\n
Well, that theory has arisen again. And that theory is now rooted in the fact that there are now two different Fox News Channels. You\u2019ve got the prime time, which is where the opinionated conservatism is: Tucker, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, you know, the 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. block. And then the rest of the news channel, they think they are the day-to-day journalists, and they are complaining that the identity, the strong identity theft of the opinion programming in prime time is tainting their image and their work as journalists, and they don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n
And so there are rumors that eventually, not tomorrow, not any time soon, but this new Fox is going to change some of the prime time programming, make it less hard-hitting conservatism and so forth. Nobody really knows. These are just rumors that are floating around and circulating.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re trying to create this impression that half of Fox is at war with the other half of Fox. That the, quote, unquote, daytime Fox, the Shepard Smith Fox, the journalists at Fox are very, very, very happy with the prime time Fox, and the effort to create this picture of conflict and the need to resolve that conflict.<\/p>\n
And I think a lot of this is coming from journalists who cover Fox who would love for Fox to be decimated. They would love for Fox to tear itself apart. They would love for Fox to take away its strengths. And they\u2019re the ones reporting on these rumors and so forth. Who knows what there is to all this. But I know that you\u2019re not alone. I\u2019ve gotten a lot of feedback on what has happened here to Judge Jeanine and how unfair it is.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also kind of scary to a lot of people because she didn\u2019t say anything that is confrontationally controversial. She just said some things that you\u2019re not supposed to say about Sharia and Islam. And if you couple that with the — I mean, the slaughter of Christians around the world is something that\u2019s real and not being reported on \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t fit the narrative of the media.<\/p>\n
The media narrative is that Muslims are the targets and that Muslims are the victims and that Muslims are being unfairly targeted, criticized, and so forth. And so anything that doesn\u2019t fit that narrative doesn\u2019t make the news so to speak. Anyway, I\u2019m glad you called, Carolyn, very much. I appreciate your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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