{"id":320133,"date":"2019-08-22T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=320133"},"modified":"2019-08-23T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T20:08:13","slug":"no-i-do-not-gotta-watch-de-blasio-or-any-other-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/22\/no-i-do-not-gotta-watch-de-blasio-or-any-other-video\/","title":{"rendered":"No, I Do Not Gotta Watch “Dell” Blasio — or Any Other Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I haven\u2019t heard this. Grab sound bite number 10. I\u2019ve had emails, “Have you heard the “Dell” Blasio video?” I said, “‘Dell\u2019 Blasio? Who\u2019s ‘Dell\u2019 Blasio?” “Oh, de Blasio. Have you heard the video?” I said, “No, I haven\u2019t seen it. I don\u2019t watch videos.” You know, this is… I hate to do this, folks, because I know many of you people want me to be in the cultural avant-garde. But I just… I have never gotten into it. They take too long. I have people saying, “You\u2019ve gotta watch this video!” I don\u2019t know what it is. I don\u2019t like net videos. I don\u2019t watch YouTube.<\/p>\n

I just don\u2019t do it. Some of it is hearing related. But there\u2019s captioning on a lot of these things now so that\u2019s not an excuse. It\u2019s I\u2019d just rather read it. I guess I don\u2019t believe this whole concept of YouTube “stars” anyway. But, at any rate, I don\u2019t listen. If somebody on the staff here produces an audio sound bite of a YouTube video or any other video, then I\u2019ll see it\/hear it that way. So somebody said (sputtering), “You\u2019ve got… you\u2019ve got … you\u2019ve got to hear this ‘Dell\u2019 Blasio video!” I said, “Why? Why do I have to watch the ‘Dell\u2019 Blasio video?<\/p>\n

\"\"“I don\u2019t want to read what this guy says! I don\u2019t want to watch this guy say anything. Why should I watch?” “Because it\u2019s funny.” I said, “Okay.” So it\u2019s on the sound bite roster here. It was yesterday in Altoona, Iowa, at the AFL-CIO of Iowa labor conference. New York City mayor Bill “Dell” Blasio (which is what the email I arrived describing this said), spoke via a live-streamed video feed and during his remarks there was an audio glitch. A-ha! So here it is…<\/p>\n

“DELL” BLASIO: We\u2019re gonna do something that should have been done a long time ago in this country. We\u2019re passing legislation this year to guarantee working people, like every other industrialized country in the world, to guarantee working people, by law, two weeks\u2019 paid vacation every year. I apologize that you ever got to know Donald Trump —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not a glitch.<\/p>\n

“DELL” BLASIO: — but this New Yorker volunteers to get rid of him for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not a glitch, and it\u2019s not even chipmunk. Somebody just hit the 1.5 or 2-time speed X thing so it wouldn\u2019t take as much time to listen to it, which I totally support. Anything to speed this guy up and limit the amount of time you\u2019re exposed to him, I\u2019m in favor of. (big sigh) Look, I realize that sometimes people think that I\u2019m mad when I\u2019m just merely expressive. I don\u2019t really hate YouTube videos.<\/p>\n

You know what I hate is I\u2019ve told you countless people, “I don\u2019t want them,” and they still send them. That\u2019s really what I\u2019m reacting to here. Is there some law says I have to like videos? Is there some rule says, as a media guy, I have to watch videos? Especially if they\u2019re Twitter or Facebook, I\u2019m never gonna see \u2019em. “Rush, how can you do your show prep without it?” Do you think I\u2019m having any trouble with show prep, folks? Does anybody really want to claim this show is behind the scoop?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No and I got another email. “Rush, you\u2019re really making yourself sound really odd with this energy you\u2019re putting behind the fact you don\u2019t like video.” Okay, let me explain it. I\u2019ll try another time. Another way. Can you understand that I can read faster and comprehend faster than most people can talk? It slows me down watching videos. Somebody sends me a seven-minute video and 30 seconds of it is the meat. But I don\u2019t know which 30 seconds. So I\u2019ve got to sit there listening and watching seven minutes of stuff to find the gem in there, \u2019cause nobody\u2019s gonna take the time to edit it for me.<\/p>\n

“Rush, you gotta see this video!” “What\u2019s in it?” “Oh, wow! Wait tell you hear what ‘Dell\u2019 Blasio said.” “Okay.” The video comes in. It\u2019s three minutes. “What am I looking for here?” “Just watch it!” “I don\u2019t have time!” Unless the whole thing is the gem, which it never is. Try this. You wouldn\u2019t believe this. Talk about YouTube stars? I have people send me links to videos. “Rush, you gotta see a video of the new iPhone.” “Really, there\u2019s a video of the new?” “Yeah!” You know what it is? It\u2019s some locoweed unboxing it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s a three-minute video of a guy taking an iPhone out of the box, examining the box, examining the labeling, expecting the strip that you pull to undo the box — and then taking the protective cellophane off the front of the iPhone off the back and then rotating the phone.<\/p>\n

Three minutes of this to unbox… (interruption) Well, one time I did. I got sucked in. “Rush, you gotta see! It\u2019s a new iPhone.” It wasn\u2019t a new iPhone. It was, but it was a ceremonial unboxing. What happens to the box? It goes to the trash. Look, I understand the thrill of opening a box \u2019cause what you want\u2019s inside the thing. But three minutes, with editorial comments thrown in? I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s a time thing, I guess. The bottom line is that I think I can read and comprehend faster than most people can talk.Another great example. You might have heard the name Richard Epstein lately.<\/p>\n

Richard Epstein is a psychiatrist of some kind. He is a dyed-in-the-wool Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter. He\u2019s very credited in his business. He\u2019s not by any stretch of the imagination a kook. And he was interviewed — or he was interrogated. He appeared before a Senate committee to discuss the dangers posed by Facebook and Google on the electoral system, and he was questioned by Ted Cruz. The video is six-minutes long.<\/p>\n

The point in the video can be stated in 10 seconds, 15 seconds. What the guy says is, as an avowed Hillary Clinton supporter, that he is scared to death because he can prove that Google steered 2.5 million votes to Hillary Clinton on Election Day in 2016. Now, I don\u2019t… If I can read that in the amount of time it took me to tell you, I\u2019d rather do that than watch a seven-minute video and have to do that in order to get that point. And then after he says that then there\u2019s accompanying printed or text stories I go out and read and find out what the guy\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n

And he seriously did make that point and he\u2019s making it and Cruz says, “You\u2019re a liberal Democrat, right?” He says, “Yes, I am, but I\u2019m an American first, and this worries the heck out of me that Google could do this.” He went on to explain that the way Google does it is to just send get-out-the-vote reminders on Election Day to 2.5 million people that they know are registered Democrats and who may not have a history of voting very often. He can\u2019t guarantee that the 2.5 million notices are gonna result in 2.5 million votes, but the point is that Google is actively attempting to use their power to shape the outcome of elections.<\/p>\n

All of this while we\u2019re told the Russians were doing this, it\u2019s Google and Facebook that are doing it. And his testimony, he went on to warn what if Mark Zuckerberg wakes up on Election Day 2020 and tries to use the power Facebook has to turn out the vote to generate votes like this? And some people ask, “Well, why shouldn\u2019t he be able to?” Well, if he\u2019s not telling anybody he\u2019s doing it… You know, get-out-the-vote drives, traditionally those are party operations, and Google and Facebook tell us that they\u2019re neutral.<\/p>\n

\"\"Google and Facebook tell us that they\u2019re not biased! Google and Facebook are secretly working behind the scenes. This guy goes on to explain how Eric Schmidt, which I\u2019ve already told you, was practically inseparable from Obama during Obama\u2019s eight years in the White House, Eric Schmidt the former CEO of Google. What gave him credibility is he\u2019s a dyed-in-the-wool Clinton supporter. He loves the Clintons. He was bragging about he\u2019s got an autographed photo from the Clintons!<\/p>\n

He was doing this under the guise of, “Look, I am not a partisan. I\u2019m not a pro-Trump guy. “I hate Trump. I love the Clintons. But this worries me.” My only point is, out of his seven minutes you could pick up his point in point in 30 seconds and then add to it from there. That\u2019s my only… I guess it\u2019s an efficiency-of-time thing for me, more than anything, watching videos. I\u2019m not opposed to the format of video. It\u2019s just once you start watching \u2019em, it takes you forever, or can, to glean whatever the gold within each one is.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No and I got another email. “Rush, you\u2019re really making yourself sound really odd with this energy you\u2019re putting behind the fact you don\u2019t like video.” Okay, let me explain it. I\u2019ll try another time. Another way. Can you understand that I can read faster and comprehend faster than most people can talk? It slows me down watching videos. Somebody sends me a seven-minute video and 30 seconds of it is the meat. But I don\u2019t know which 30 seconds. So I\u2019ve got to sit there listening and watching seven minutes of stuff to find the gem in there, \u2019cause nobody\u2019s gonna take the time to edit it for me.<\/p>\n

“Rush, you gotta see this video!” “What\u2019s in it?” “Oh, wow! Wait tell you hear what ‘Dell\u2019 Blasio said.” “Okay.” The video comes in. It\u2019s three minutes. “What am I looking for here?” “Just watch it!” “I don\u2019t have time!” Unless the whole thing is the gem, which it never is. Try this. You wouldn\u2019t believe this. Talk about YouTube stars? I have people send me links to videos. “Rush, you gotta see a video of the new iPhone.” “Really, there\u2019s a video of the new?” “Yeah!” You know what it is? It\u2019s some locoweed unboxing it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a three-minute video of a guy taking an iPhone out of the box, examining the box, examining the labeling, expecting the strip that you pull to undo the box — and then taking the protective cellophane off the front of the iPhone off the back and then rotating the phone. Three minutes of this to unbox… (interruption) Well, one time I did. I got sucked in. “Rush, you gotta see! It\u2019s a new iPhone.” It wasn\u2019t a new iPhone.<\/p>\n

It was, but it was a ceremonial unboxing. What happens to the box? It goes to the trash. Look, I understand the thrill of opening a box \u2019cause what you want\u2019s inside the thing. But three minutes, with editorial comments thrown in? I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s a time thing, I guess. The bottom line is that I think I can read and comprehend faster than most people can talk. Another great example. You might have heard the name Richard Epstein lately.<\/p>\n

Richard Epstein is a psychiatrist of some kind. He is a dyed-in-the-wool Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter. He\u2019s very credited in his business. He\u2019s not by any stretch of the imagination a kook. And he was interviewed — or he was interrogated. He appeared before a Senate committee to discuss the dangers posed by Facebook and Google on the electoral system, and he was questioned by Ted Cruz. The video is six-minutes long.<\/p>\n