RUSH: Here is Ann, Morristown, New Jersey. Great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi. I\u2019m gonna take you off speaker, Rush. Hold on one second.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Better to speak… (garbled) I just want to say before I make my remark that I\u2019ve been… (garbled)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Uh-oh. Did we lose the connection when she took us off the speaker? Are you still there?<\/p>\n
CALLER: (static)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I know you\u2019re still there. Ann, just pick up the phone and talk to us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: OK. Can you hear me now?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I do, yes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. I was for Donald Trump before he even announced his candidacy. I think he is the only man that can do what\u2019s necessary for this country at this time. And I am so infuriated, so sick of being attacked, so sick of my vote not counting I just want to know how these Democrats sleep at night — and take a paycheck from us, from we, the people — when they have not done the business of the people for three years now.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, that… Hang on, now. That actually is an interesting question. I\u2019ve often said — I don\u2019t hide the fact that I am complaint naive about many things. My naivete is rooted in my optimism, and my naivete is rooted in the belief in good manners and respect for others and all that. So I\u2019ll admit it. Now, I don\u2019t ask that about Democrats because I know them. They don\u2019t care about that. They don\u2019t even think that way. They\u2019re just power mad, Ann.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all that matters to them. But I\u2019ll tell you who I do ask this of — and it\u2019s just as ludicrous, but I\u2019m gonna admit it anyway. Do you realize that all of…? I mean, literally 98% of all journalism and everybody in it is corrupt? In unison, they are corrupt. It doesn\u2019t matter what newspaper you read or what network newscast you watch or left-wing website you read, they are identical. They report the identical stories when it comes to political news, Washington and foreign policy news.<\/p>\n
Now, they do different profile puff pieces on different people. I mean, they differ in those ways. When it comes to reporting what we consider the news every day — and there isn\u2019t any news anymore, because there isn\u2019t any journalism. But every one of these people… In my naive existence, I ask myself, “Do they not know what they\u2019re doing? Do they know that they are lying? Do they know that they\u2019re making it up? Do they know that they are parroting?” Because I\u2019m somewhat in the same field. I could not do what they do.<\/p>\n
I couldn\u2019t join a massive club like this where the objective was to think and speak and write identically to everybody else in the field. And then I ask, just in a professional way, “Why wouldn\u2019t I want to stand out? Why, when 98% are off in the same direction? There\u2019s a gold mine for me to stand out and find other things, maybe the contraindications of this story and really make a story.” But that doesn\u2019t happen! There\u2019s not one of these people that ever goes rogue. And then I get to the substance of it. What they\u2019re doing is they are literally — and it\u2019s nothing new.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of their existence since journalism first was invented. They destroy people. They literally set out to ruin people! And they do it with no guilt and no conscience whatsoever. And so whereas you\u2019re asking yourself how these Democrats can sleep at night, I don\u2019t, \u2019cause I know exactly what they\u2019re doing. And I know what journalism\u2019s doing, too, but I\u2019m just telling you I can relate, because I ask myself how in the world can every one of these people \u2013 let\u2019s just take one, CNN or MSNBC.<\/p>\n
Have they no heart whatsoever? Are they all missing souls? Do they not have a soul? Are they that cold? They are openly, happily, wantonly attempting to ruin not just Trump, but everybody in his family and everybody in his business universe and everybody that has any kind of relationship with him. Not something I could do. I can understand it, I can\u2019t relate to it.<\/p>\n
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But yet there\u2019s not a single exception to it. Every one of them. And how many of them know — the examples are just too numerous to mention. Just the New York Times, for example, their fake bombshell yesterday where they said that Trump had told Barr to call the president of Australia, the president of Ukraine to get to the bottom of the investigation, as though it\u2019s some gigantic bombshell. Trump publicly said back in May that he wanted Barr to do this. He\u2019s not hidden that. There\u2019s nothing surreptitious about it.<\/p>\n
So whoever is at the New York Times literally made this up, or else they don\u2019t know. Now, that\u2019s hard to imagine. People in the news business do not know that Donald Trump publicly asked Barr to get to the bottom of the hoax and to find out who started it and when and how. He\u2019s made no secret of it! They run a story yesterday making it look like: \u201cTrump privately and secretly and illegally asked the attorney general to do investigations of people. It\u2019s not his job as president. He\u2019s outside the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n
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None of it\u2019s true. Now, does everybody at the New York Times know this? And if they do, then what they are actively doing is seeking to personally, not just professionally, they are personally trying to destroy and ruin another human being and everything that he\u2019s ever done.<\/p>\n
Now, these are the people who tell us that they are the exclusive owners of compassion and that they are the ones who have understanding and tolerance and big hearts, that they are kind. As opposed to us conservatives, who are mean-spirited extremists, racists, sexists, bigots, and all of that. So I do ask myself, how is it — we\u2019re talking, folks, around this country hundreds of people who are behaving as robots, automatons.<\/p>\n
They literally all say the same thing. Their attacks on Donald Trump are practically verbatim. They run the same stories saying the same things within the same timelines. And it does kind of amaze, surprise me that there isn\u2019t one of them that hasn\u2019t, after three years, looked at themselves in the mirror and said, “What I\u2019m doing here is inhumane. What I\u2019m doing here, I\u2019m peddling lies, I\u2019m involved in character and human destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n
It boggles my mind that there\u2019s not one of them that doesn\u2019t feel some kind of guilt. It must be that there isn\u2019t a one of them that thinks that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. They must all believe that they are virtuous torch carriers trying to save whatever. But it does boggle my mind. I know journalism, the way you climb the ranks is you find some powerful person where you\u2019re doing your job and you destroy them. That gets you noticed by big journalists at the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe or whatever. That\u2019s SOP. Take out powerful people.<\/p>\n
But now Democrat, leftist powerful people are immune, and you become as a journalist in league with them. But aside from all that, just the human side of this, what these people are doing — and there\u2019s not one exception. Do you realize how cynical you have to be to say, “Yeah, it makes perfect sense to me. This is what journalism is.”<\/p>\n
The last thing they\u2019re concerned with is truth, and yet they\u2019re journalists. The last thing they\u2019re interested in is fact, and yet they\u2019re journalists. In their minds they\u2019re journalists. You and I know that they\u2019re not anymore, but it still boggles my mind. You ask it about the Democrats, and I ask it about — of course, the answer to this is, they\u2019re all Democrats. Just some are in the media, some are in House of Representatives, some are in the Senate, some are in think tanks. You know the drill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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