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RUSH: We have an object lesson in the Drive-By Media today for you folks, and it plays off of the New York Times story on Ben Rhodes<\/a>. You remember the story, Ben Rhodes, New York Times Sunday magazine profile. It actually came out last Thursday. It appeared in the actual magazine on Sunday, and it was a story about how the White House openly lied to the White House press corps about the Iranian nuke deal, and Ben Rhodes was bragging to the guy that wrote the piece — a guy named David Samuels who has quite a left-wing literary pedigree, as it turns out.<\/p>\n


\nAnyway, Rhodes is bragging about how he lied to the sycophant media. You know, the White House press corps loves and adores Obama. They\u2019re slavish. They\u2019re totally devoted. And inside the Obama White House, they speak of the White House press corps in the most insulting, vulgar terms. You know, it\u2019s interesting. Obama resents the hell out of these people. He almost has no respect for them because they\u2019re so easy. They think, on the other hand, that Obama loves them because they\u2019re all fellow travelers. They think Obama loves them because they promote Obama\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n

<\/a>And Obama\u2019s sitting there calling \u2019em basically a bunch of media whores and laughing behind closed doors about how easy they are. And that\u2019s one of the things that surfaced here coming on my object lesson. ‘Cause it turns out that the Drive-By Media are livid over this New York Times piece. But they\u2019re not livid at Rhodes, Ben Rhodes, the guy who lied to \u2019em, the guy who said the press corps bunch of 27-year-olds that don\u2019t know anything; they\u2019re easy. He lied to them about who they were negotiating with. “Yeah, we found some moderates in Iran,” when they had been negotiating with the ayatollahs.<\/p>\n

The Drive-Bys are now mad, but not at Rhodes for lying to them.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re mad at the guy that wrote the New York Times story for exposing how easy they are.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I mentioned at the top of the program there\u2019s an object lesson in the media today, and there is. But it\u2019s not because I think there\u2019s anything left for you to learn. I think you in this audience are so up to speed on the ways and means of the media and what they are and what they aren\u2019t and how they do and don\u2019t do what they do. But still it\u2019s interesting. The focal point of this: We\u2019re gonna zero back, we\u2019re gonna double back here to that New York Times Magazine piece on Ben Rhodes, who is Obama\u2019s chief media guy on national security issues.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s actually more than a media guy on it. Now, the thing about Ben Rhodes is, he has no experience whatsoever in foreign policy before Obama hired him. He was “a writer.” He was a wannabe novelist. He ends up being hired for this position in the Regime, and one thing I want to point out here is a lot of people are running around, “Trump\u2019s got no experience! He\u2019d better hire people with experience! You need people with experience in foreign policy,” and you say, “No, you don\u2019t. Obama got everything he wanted without anybody knowing what they\u2019re doing.”<\/p>\n


\nObama got everything he wanted. Obama got an Iranian nuke deal, and he did it by lying to the very media that slavishly covers him. That\u2019s the point here. And the guy that was in charge of making sure everybody bought the lie was Ben Rhodes. That was his job. His job was to sell everybody, including the sycophant media in the White House press corps. His job was to lie to them and tell them the only reason that we were doing this is because there\u2019s a new faction of moderate leaders in Iran.<\/p>\n

Not the Ayatollah Khamenei and his boys. Not under the influence mullahs and not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. None of these guys that have ties to the 1979 Hostage Crisis or terrorism or any of that. “These are a bunch of moderates!” It turns out that that\u2019s what the point of the New York Times Magazine story was: There aren\u2019t any moderates in Iran, and there was a profile of Ben Rhodes in which it was revealed that he lied to everybody about it, and the story was almost a puff piece on how he did it and how good he is at doing it and how important it was to lie to everybody about this in order to for Obama to get what he wanted: The Iranian nuke deal.<\/p>\n

And Ben Rhodes is just the next Jonathan Gruber. Remember Jonathan Gruber? Jonathan Gruber is the architect of Obamacare, and the architecture of Romneycare. And he was out at cocktail parties and think tank seminars bragging about how they had lied to people about what Obamacare was, how they\u2019re lying about, “You get to keep your doctor.” Oh! I wonder if we have this in the roster. Let me check real quick, \u2019cause I didn\u2019t ask for this, so we might not have this. Charlie Rose… Charlie Rose… Charlie Rose… The pages are sticking together. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve got it.<\/p>\n

On the Charlie Rose Show last night or some Charlie Rose show… Maybe a CBS show. I don\u2019t know what it was. But it was yesterday. He had on three Obama speechwriters, and the speechwriters were bragging about how they had come up with this lie in the speech for Obama: “If you like your doctor, you get to keep your doctor! If you like your insurance, you get to keep your insurance!” Charlie Rose was actually interviewing Obama speechwriters laughing about how they lied, and Charlie is laughing right along with \u2019em, laughing about how they pulled it off.<\/p>\n