{"id":321698,"date":"2019-09-12T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=321698"},"modified":"2019-09-13T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:46:11","slug":"confirmed-clinton-white-house-trained-seminar-callers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/12\/confirmed-clinton-white-house-trained-seminar-callers\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Clinton White House, DNC Trained Seminar Callers"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You remember the story we had on the program yesterday that Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch<\/a>, through a Freedom of Information Act request, had secured a bunch of documents from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor detailing how they had run seminars for seminar callers, that they had actually run training missions to train people how to call this program and try to corrupt it? We recognized when this began to happen, and I named these callers “seminar callers” because they weren\u2019t real.<\/p>\n

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They were going to some indoctrination session being taught by Democrats. They were taught what to say. They were taught what to tell the screener in order to get past him to get on the show. I mean, it was so transparent; it was so obvious that they were seminar callers. They\u2019d all start out, for example, by saying, “Mr. Limbaugh, I love you. I\u2019ve been listening to your show since it began. I\u2019m a conservative. I\u2019ve always agreed with you, but…” And then here would come the liberalism or here would come whatever the problem.<\/p>\n

But they always started out as sycophants, and you can always spot them. If you\u2019re a sensitive human like I am, if you are very situationally aware like I am, you can recognize sycophancy the moment you hear it or the moment you see it. Sycophancy is one of the most insulting behavioral patterns or techniques, at least to me, because it\u2019s fake, phony, lying flattery\/love, whatever you want to call it. They\u2019re making it all up, and it\u2019s instantly spottable by me. So we would have fun with \u2019em.<\/p>\n

Mr. Snerdley would say, “Okay, I\u2019ve got a couple seminar callers. I\u2019ve made them think that they fooled me,” and then they would be set up and we\u2019d take their call. Anyway, there has been more information gleaned since we last spoke about this — even more data, even more detail — about the seminar caller operation run by the Clinton White House. I remember Dick Morris back when he used to appear with O\u2019Reilly on the Fox News Channel. O\u2019Reilly… Well, I\u2019m not gonna mention it.<\/p>\n

Dick Morris tried a couple of times, and it didn\u2019t work, but he tried to say (impression), “The Clintons didn\u2019t care about radio, Bill. They didn\u2019t care about radio. They\u2019ve never been worried about radio. Fox News bothers \u2019em, Bill. Fox News really bugged the Clintons. (sputtering) But — but — but — but — but no, they didn\u2019t care about radio,” and then I would run into Dick Morris in Washington at the Georgetown Hotel. He\u2019d come up to me and wink at me.<\/p>\n

“Let me tell you how much you really bugged \u2019em,” and he\u2019d start giving me little details. Anyway, this whole seminar caller thing was started because of this program. It was the one place in media that Clinton was not being idolized, and Clinton had the kind of personality where if he\u2019s in a room with a hundred people, 99 people like him and one doesn\u2019t, he\u2019ll ignore the 99. He\u2019ll focus on the one and try to turn \u2019em. When that didn\u2019t work, it became seek and destroy: Seminar callers.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Washington Free Beacon has the details. \u201cDems Secretly Trained Thousands of Activists to Manipulate Media, Clinton Library Docs Show.<\/a>\u201d So we had the first little tease of this yesterday from Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch, Freedom of Information Act request. Now we have even more detail from more documents from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor, where these records are housed in Little Rock.<\/p>\n

“DNC coordinated with activists to ‘infiltrate\u2019 talk radio.” Now, we knew all this. Don\u2019t misunderstand. This is not news to me. This is just confirmation. This is something we have known ever since we gave these callers the title, “seminar callers.” Which, by the way, if you stand by, we have three parody examples of how we made fun of it with white comedian Paul Shanklin. Hang on. That\u2019s coming up.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the nuts and bolts of this. \u201cThe Democratic party developed an elaborate, multi-year operation in the 1990s that deployed thousands of activists to covertly mold public opinion using talk radio.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remember, in 1993 Clinton takes office. In \u201994, \u201995, there isn\u2019t any Fox News. All there is is CNN. Cable news hasn\u2019t blown up. CNN is the only cable news channel nationwide in America. The blogosphere, it\u2019s just in its formative stages, websites as well.<\/p>\n

Fox News didn\u2019t really get going \u2019til 1997. So back then it was just talk radio. Talk radio was it. It was the lone outpost of opposition to the Clinton administration and they couldn\u2019t deal with it, they couldn\u2019t handle it. It\u2019s when Clinton\u2019s blaming me for the Oklahoma City bombing and any number of other things in an ancillary way.<\/p>\n

So they had engaged in a deep-cover plan to subvert talk radio, \u201can elaborate, multi-year operation in the 1990s that deployed thousands of activists to covertly mold public opinion.\u201d This is all confirmed in documents in the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Democratic National Committee (DNC), with the blessing of the Clinton White House, launched the Talk Radio Initiative (TRI) ahead of the 1996 campaign. The program trained thousands of operatives to call in to radio shows, conduct surveillance of their contents –\u201d this happened to be when Media Matters gets up and running, \u201c– and secretly disseminate Democratic talking points while posing as ordinary listeners. \u2018Volunteers must be able to keep the project confidential so as not to create the image of a \u2018Democratic conspiracy\u2019 to infiltrate Detroit area talk radio shows,\u2019\u201d said one particular guy.<\/p>\n

Of course they had to keep it secret! They were lying to people back then. They were engaging in manipulation of media just as they have always done. Could it be said maybe that this could constitute meddling in elections? They wanted to avoid — had everybody, every seminar caller had to be quiet about it, had to be sworn to secrecy. No whistleblowers. Can\u2019t blow the whistle on this, otherwise the conspiracy would be known.<\/p>\n

“Democratic performance in the 1996 elections will no doubt be affected by the success or failure of this initiative.” By the way, it was this that led to that ill-fated attempt by the left to duplicate this program with something called Air America, whatever it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cRadio show hosts long suspected that someone was training so-called \u2018seminar callers,\u2019” That\u2019s actually our name for it. You won\u2019t find my name in this story, by the way. You will not. This story, you will not find my name. But there\u2019s nobody else that named \u2019em seminar callers.<\/p>\n

\u201cRadio show hosts long suspected that someone was training so-called \u2018seminar callers\u2019 to inundate their shows with,\u201d phonies.
\n\u201cThe Democrats did publicize some aspects of this secret program while it was running, praising the initiative as their first step in bringing back \u2018truth\u2019 to radio. However, the inner workings of the TRI were kept secret for decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Washington Free Beacon reviewed years\u2019 worth of previous reporting and scores of internal documents from the Clinton Presidential Library \u2014 including secret DNC communiques,\u201d this hasn\u2019t stopped, by the way, folks, this hasn\u2019t stopped. It goes on. It manifests itself in many other ways. \u201cOperatives launched the project as an \u2018all encompassing, nationwide grass roots effort to win back the airwaves.\u2019”<\/p>\n

One of the biggest, most fun things that we participated in, remember Hillary Clinton was running around the country on a bus selling health care, had this massive bus tour schedule. We got hold of the schedule. We knew where she was gonna go before she was gonna get there. We arranged for all kinds of protesters show up, and they ended up having to reroute the bus tour to places nobody knew Hillary was going.<\/p>\n

I mean, they were mad. They didn\u2019t know how to deal with the kind of opposition they were getting, and it was substantive opposition. It was based on issues. We were calling them out. And everywhere else in the media is a bunch of sycophants.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s now go back to the parody archives. We have three different examples of seminar caller parodies that we put together to make fun of all this.<\/p>\n

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ANNOUNCER: Be an army of at least one by volunteering for duty as a DNC seminar caller. You\u2019ll receive advanced basic training from our sensitive, caring professionals.<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: What\u2019s your number, soldier?<\/p>\n

TRAINEE: Uhhh, 1-800-282-288\u20265?<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: How you gonna make it past the call screener if you don\u2019t know the number? Drop and give me 20 on the rotary dial. The rest of you repeat after me. “I love your show and I always agree with you, and I voted for Bush.”<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: And you\u2019ll earn promotions and medals.<\/p>\n

FATHER: Son, we\u2019re very proud of you. What\u2019s that medal for?<\/p>\n

TRAINEE: This one\u2019s for touch-tone. This is for getting past the call screener, and this big one here is for actually talking to the host and flawlessly saying, \u201cI love your show, I always agree with you, and I voted for Bush.\u201d<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: Be on radio and say what we want you to say. All scripts provided by the Democratic National Committee. Help us take back our monopoly on public opinion. Volunteers especially needed from noon to three Eastern.<\/p>\n

(spoof song)<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: Now behind the scenes at the Obama White House. Today President Obama gets his first report on getting his message onto conservative talk radio airwaves.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: All right, Carville, how many calls did we get on in the first hour?<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: None at all.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: They screened \u2019em out?<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Well, none, really.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I can\u2019t believe it. Something\u2019s going worse than yesterday.<\/p>\n

\"\"CARVILLE: We using them ACORN people.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: They don\u2019t know how to dial a phone yet.<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Yeah.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I told you not to use ACORN people. Get somebody else. Keep trying. Keep trying. I want you to call \u2019em yourself if you have to.<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Sir, yes, sir, over and out, Roger and all that kind of crap.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I can\u2019t believe something\u2019s going worse than yesterday.<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: Join us next time as we go behind the scenes at the Obama White House.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A little trip down memory lane, all that stuff, two of those three are back into the 1990s. Anyway, bottom line, we knew it was happening, we were having fun with it, and that\u2019s what they all said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI listen to your show all the time, I love your show, I voted for Bush, but…\u201d Always a variation of that. And they are still out there. Occasionally we\u2019ll get one here, if they get through. And it\u2019s just now been confirmed with documents from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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