{"id":322333,"date":"2019-09-17T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=322333"},"modified":"2021-03-16T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:56:28","slug":"fox-plays-me-because-im-the-only-one-saying-what-im-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/17\/fox-plays-me-because-im-the-only-one-saying-what-im-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Plays Me Because I\u2019m the Only One Saying What I\u2019m Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to go back to the New York Times story, the Kavanaugh story and my entire take on this. And just to review — don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m not gonna spend another half hour detailing this. It started yesterday when I was — and I\u2019m not making this up, folks, I\u2019m not exaggerating. I\u2019m not doing anything for effect here. I had so many people, “Can you believe what the New York Times did? They ran that story and it turns out that the woman doesn\u2019t even remember.”<\/p>\n

Of course I believe what the New York Times did! The New York Times isn\u2019t journalism. That was the theme yesterday. They have become the leading political action committee of the Democrat Party. They\u2019re nothing but a bunch of political activists. They are Democrats in the media as opposed to the Democrats in the House and the Democrats in the Senate and the Democrats in think tanks. They are Democrats in the media.<\/p>\n

\"\"And as far as I\u2019m concerned, this is what really irritated me yesterday, if I could be blunt. It\u2019s fine and dandy to get upset over what they\u2019re doing to Kavanaugh, but what about what they did to Trump for two and a half the years? How can they have any credibility at all after that?<\/p>\n

After two and a half years of running and being responsible for a series of lies that were nothing other than an actual attempted coup to overthrow the presidential results in 2016, it went on every day, multiple stories per day counting the printed newspaper and the website, two and a half years. There was never any evidence, there was never anything to it. It was totally made up.<\/p>\n

It was a combination of Obama DOJ officials, Obama FBI people, MI5 and MI6 in the U.K., Australia\u2019s ambassador, and a bunch of other attempts to plant spies in the Trump campaign and it was a full-fledged effort to get Trump. First phase was to make sure Trump lost the election. Then after that it was to try to ensure that Trump\u2019s transition period would be so rocky that people would believe he stole the election, he was a traitor, cheated, and that Hillary should be installed.<\/p>\n

Then Trump gets inaugurated and the effort then becomes to get him impeached. There was no journalism in any of that. That was full-fledged, 1,000 percent political activism. They haven\u2019t yet paid a price for it. They haven\u2019t apologized for it. They led every other news organization in the country down that same path. CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, take your pick.<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been a single acknowledgment that they made a mistake. There hasn\u2019t been a single acknowledgment they got anything wrong. They invested everything in the Mueller report. The Mueller report, a gigantic dud. Okay. We move on from that to impeachment. We move on from that to destroy Trump\u2019s business. There isn\u2019t any journalism.<\/p>\n

So the Times comes along and runs a smear job on Kavanaugh which is a continuation of the first smear job. “Can you believe what the Times did?” Yes! I totally believe what the Times did! I\u2019m frustrated. I wish more people saw the New York Times for what it is. It isn\u2019t journalism anymore.<\/p>\n

Okay, so that\u2019s how the show was set up yesterday. That sets up the audio sound bites, which again, I cannot hear but I have the transcripts. So you just need to point at me in there when they\u2019re over. Up first, this happened on Fox News Channel this morning, America\u2019s Newsroom. We\u2019ve got Bill Hemmer talking to syndicated radio host Leslie Marshall, and this is how that conversation went.<\/p>\n

MARSHALL: The problem for Democrats here is the victim says, “Look, I don\u2019t remember it happened.” This is not the victim saying it happened, and, to me, having gone for my master\u2019s in broadcast journalism, it absolutely makes my skin crawl that the New York Times or any other outlet that call themselves journalists would not have all the facts, that it would go by the editor before they put that out.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: To your point, Leslie, you\u2019re in agreement with Rush Limbaugh when it comes to (laughter starts) the New York Times.<\/p>\n

MARSHALL: Don\u2019t say that on air.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he says, “To your point, Leslie, you\u2019re in agreement with Rush Limbaugh when it comes to the New York Times. And she says, “Don\u2019t say that.” She said, “The problem for Democrats is the victim says, ‘Look, I don\u2019t remember it happened.\u2019 It is not the victim saying it happened, and, to me, having gone for my master\u2019s in broadcast journalism, it actually makes my skin crawl that the New York Times or any other outlet that call themselves journalists would not have all the facts.”<\/p>\n

Why does it make your skin crawl? How can it be — I\u2019m serious about the question, folks. How can it be that so many people still — these are intelligent people. These are engaged, involved people. How can it be that so many of them think that all this was was a mistake, a journalistic mistake? Somewhere along the line an editor dropped the ball. This is so obviously not that.<\/p>\n

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How come these people cannot see that the objective here is the destruction of Brett Kavanaugh, his life, his career, his reputation and, by extension, Trump? Of course, Trump was first. It makes my skin crawl that this could happen? So they played the clip from me on yesterday\u2019s program that she agrees with<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Now they\u2019re trying to say, “Oops. We screwed up. We\u2019re sorry.” They didn\u2019t screw up anything! They\u2019re trying to destroy the man like they\u2019re trying to destroy Donald Trump. … Have any of the presidential candidates who glommed onto this story, have they pulled back on it? … No. They\u2019re still running with it. They\u2019re demanding that Kavanaugh be impeached. Because this is mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Slowly but surely, ladies and gentlemen, the impression is being made. See, it\u2019s important for this stuff to get out there. You\u2019ll notice that for my point of view to be on Fox they have to get me saying it, which I don\u2019t mind, don\u2019t misunderstand. But there\u2019s a lot of people that work at Fox. Why can\u2019t one of them conclude this? It\u2019s a rhetorical question. I mean, they\u2019re a news organization. They\u2019re not into opinion — ahem. But, anyway, this is how it happens.<\/p>\n

So up next David Asman, you talk about journalism, Asman is a great, straight down the middle, what everybody thinks a journalist is, he is one. He was talking with Brian Kilmeade. And these guys get it. They were talking about my take on the New York Times. It was on Varney & Co. on the Fox Business Network. Here it is.<\/p>\n

ASMAN: Rush Limbaugh says that you got to be careful, because they\u2019re still getting what they want. The mainstream media will always use this story as an asterisk against anything that Justice Kavanaugh decides on. They may even say that he\u2019s unqualified to decide on cases that somehow involve women.<\/p>\n

KILMEADE: That\u2019s a true. Here\u2019s my analogy. It might fall short. But, let\u2019s say someone comes into your living room, and turns the table upside down, and throws the chairs all around. Well, we\u2019re gonna arrest the assailant. And they arrest the person. But your house is still a mess. They hurt his reputation by the accusation. And they keep moving. They took their shot, and the guy paid a price.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So that\u2019s Kilmeade. Says that\u2019s true, his analogy might fall short. Let\u2019s say somebody turns into your living room, turns the table upside down, throws the chairs all around. Well, we\u2019re gonna arrest the assailant. They arrest the person, but your house is still a mess. They hurt his reputation by the accusation. They keep moving, they took their shot. Hey! Drive-By Media! That\u2019s another little close definition of Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

People still ask, “Rush, what\u2019s Drive-By Media?” It\u2019s very simple. What happens in a Drive-By? You\u2019re at a stoplight or something, a bunch of hoodlums drive up and start shooting you, shooting you, shooting the people in the car, what they do? Create the mess and drive on down the road, waiting to do it again. That\u2019s the media! Arriving at any story. They show up at any story, make a total mess of it, maybe even get some people killed or get some people wounded and then head on down the road, drive right on by and do it all over again.<\/p>\n

And that was Kilmeade\u2019s attempt to analogize what\u2019s happening here. The only intent here was to enable this, that in the future any reference to Brett Kavanaugh can now contain “accused serial abuser, Brett Kavanaugh well known for being thought of as a rapist, Brett Kavanaugh with a seething reputation from his party days at Yale, where seemingly women were of no concern,” whatever they want to say now simply because somebody has made an allegation, doesn\u2019t matter whether it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

So this is how they taint Kavanaugh and taint any decision that he is a part of. And it\u2019s not limited to Kavanaugh, but this is part of the technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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