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RUSH: So the guy that they granted immunity to can\u2019t find any emails, not a single email, Pagliano, whatever his name is, the guy they granted immunity, Hillary\u2019s IT guy, no doubt sent emails back and forth to her for four years. Yeah, they can\u2019t find any. And anybody that\u2019s still surprised over this, you need to be committed. Anybody that thought this was ever gonna amount to anything, the evidence every day is that nothing\u2019s gonna happen to Mrs. Clinton on this email stuff.<\/p>\n

“What about the rule of law?”<\/p>\n

There is no rule of law when the left is running things, folks. All it is is their agenda.<\/p>\n

Greetings. Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nIt\u2019s like this thing, the stuff that we\u2019re learning about Fakebook. You know, Fakebook is out there is, “No, no, no, none of these allegations are true.” But of course they are. Fakebook has been deceiving every Fakebook user all of these years. The newsfeed on Fakebook is called the newsfeed. I was asking yesterday what\u2019s the newsfeed on Fakebook called. Turns out it\u2019s called the newsfeed.<\/p>\n

And it also turns out that your average Fakebook user has been convinced<\/a>, has been persuaded that whatever shows up on the Fakebook page as trending in the newsfeed is the result of popularity. An algorithm is determining which of the stories are the most read, the most passed around, the most forwarded, whatever you do with things on Fakebook, and therefore the only stories that mattered were those stories that advanced the Democrat Party or the leftist agenda.<\/p>\n

Well, of all people, of all places, Gizmodo exposes the fact that there weren\u2019t any algorithms being used. That in fact it was a bunch of Ivy League 20-something Millennials who were nothing but a bunch of young, average liberals who were actually choosing the news. They are making it all up, not the news, they were making the list up. There was no algorithm being used. They simply decided amongst themselves what they wanted to appear as the most-read news story. A classic illustration is Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Black Lives Matter is exactly, it\u2019s a replica of Occupy Wall Street. It\u2019s not real. Black Lives Matter is made to look as massive and big as it is because of fake news construction on places like Fakebook and the Drive-By Media. You know, Occupy Wall Street was not organic. Occupy Wall Street was not happening until the Tea Party came along. The Tea Party was organic. The Tea Party was genuine. It was actual Americans fed up and ticked off, and they began to organize, and many of them had never been involved politically at all beyond voting.<\/p>\n


\nThey found a way to organize. It was leaderless. There wasn\u2019t one person you could focus on to destroy or impugn and thus destroy the whole movement. And so the left didn\u2019t know what to do with it. They couldn\u2019t censor it. They couldn\u2019t stop it because they couldn\u2019t control it and there wasn\u2019t one person that was in charge that they could destroy and thus destroy the movement.<\/p>\n

So they did what they always do. They created their own response to it called Occupy Wall Street. It was like Wag the Dog. Wag the Dog happened on TV but it never really happened. The movie about a fake war that some political consultant arranged to make it look like it was actually happening on TV to help this candidate when there was no war.<\/p>\n

Well, there was no Occupy Wall Street. You had some people, you had some ragamuffins, you had some protesters, and they pitched tents in various places, but it was all bought and paid for. It looks like Black Lives Matter is the same thing. It never did have the massive popular support that Fakebook and other leftist organizations wanted people to think that it was or had, and that is the case with so much of popular culture liberalism.<\/p>\n


\nNow, while all that\u2019s going on, conservatism is being censored, actively censored, not by virtue of algorithms, not because Fakebook users are not reading conservative things, but because these 20-something Ivy Leaguers hired as news curators at Fakebook were simply eliminating anything that had anything to do with conservatism except things that portrayed it in a negative light.<\/p>\n

Your average Fakebook user has no idea, thinks that all of this is the result of popularity, all of this is the result of trending by actual Fakebook users creating these trends, when in fact it wasn\u2019t. Grab sound bite number two. This is Michael Nu\u00c3\u00b1ez. This is Jake Tapper last night, CNN. Nu\u00c3\u00b1ez is the Gizmodo tech editor and he ran the story about what was happening at Fakebook, suppressing conservative stories.<\/p>\n

And Jake Tapper said, “Why might Facebook executives or officials want to keep stories about people like Mitt Romney or Ted Cruz or Chris Kyle, American Sniper, why would they want to keep those stories off the trending list and inject others into –” (laughing) Well, why do you do it at CNN, Jake? Not Jake personally, but why does who whoever arranges the news, whoever decides what\u2019s gonna be the news at CNN, why do you do it?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same thing. It\u2019s no different. That\u2019s the point. Fakebook has editors, Fakebook has curators, Fakebook has people selecting the news, and also selecting what isn\u2019t news. We\u2019ve talked I don\u2019t know how many times about something as important as deciding what is news is deciding what isn\u2019t news, what people never hear about.<\/p>\n

By the way, that explains the success of conservative media. Whenever conservative media is allowed to be heard, it triumphs, it wins big time. That\u2019s why the left has to suppress it. That\u2019s why the left has to censor it. They\u2019re scared to death of it. When they can\u2019t control it, look it, of all the news organizations that the Drive-By Media controls, what are they focused on? Fox News and this program, they\u2019ve got to shut us down. They\u2019ve got to shut this show down, they\u2019ve gotta shut down Fox News, even though they own 90% of mainstream news. And it\u2019s not news. It\u2019s another thing. It isn\u2019t news. It\u2019s the Democrat agenda.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, Jake Tapper is asking this guy from Gizmodo why would Fakebook want to purposely keep conservative stories off — (laughing) Jake can answer the question himself. But it\u2019s Fakebook and it\u2019s Gizmodo reporting so it\u2019s going to the source from Gizmodo, that\u2019s Michael Nu\u00c3\u00b1ez. Here\u2019s his answer.<\/p>\n

Nu\u00c3\u00b1ez: They have just basically tried to wash the existence of these curators from the face of the planet. For the last two years they\u2019ve been saying an algorithm is doing this sorting. We have found that actually, a small group of 20 journalists that are recent graduates from East Coast private schools — and often Ivy League schools — are the ones that are actually activating a “trend” so that it can show up in your ‘feed, or blacklisting it. So, you know, it\u2019s not that Facebook has any bias here. It\u2019s that these young journalists are the ones choosing what trends and what doesn\u2019t. And the question then becomes whether you trust recent graduates to determine what the most important news of the day is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s the same thing that happens in the Drive-Bys. It\u2019s not an actual conspiracy, meaning they don\u2019t get together and collaborate on what they\u2019re gonna report, what they\u2019re gonna leave out. It\u2019s just what they do. I mean, they\u2019re liberals, and they believe everything liberals believe, and at the top of the list is that conservatism is insignificant. It\u2019s corrupt. It\u2019s way the hell over there on the extreme right. It\u2019s abnormal. It\u2019s whatever. So they\u2019re not even interested in it. They don\u2019t have to collaborate. That\u2019s the point about liberalism.<\/p>\n


\nLois Lerner. I make the point about her. Everybody says, “Well, where\u2019s the smoking gun from Obama? We need the smoking gun that shows that Lois Lerner was instructed to do what she did with the Tea Party groups.” She didn\u2019t need a memo. Lois Lerner did what she was hired to do. Lois Lerner was there for the express purpose of denying tax except status to conservative Tea Party groups. Nobody had to tell her not to do it. That\u2019s why she was there. The left doesn\u2019t have to send reminder memos. That\u2019s just what they do. They censor.<\/p>\n

Look at precedence. They censor anything and anyone that says something that threatens them, something they disagree with. But folks, it\u2019s a bigger story than you\u2019re gonna see reported on the Drive-Bys, and that is the evidence of how big it is. It\u2019s basically a one-time shot. They report it, and then they move on. The reason it\u2019s so big is because, sadly, but it\u2019s the reality. Fakebook has quickly become the primary news source for a whole lot of Americans, because they trust it.<\/p>\n

They actually think that the newsfeed is the result of an algorithm determining most-read, most-liked, most-agreed-with, most-popular, or what have you. So they buy into the scam, and as such, everybody in the news — the Drive-Bys — are threatened by it. I mean, everybody that is in the, quote\/unquote “news business” is threatened by it because that\u2019s where most Americans now get their first taste of the news every day is at the Fakebook newsfeed.<\/p>\n

Now, Fakebook is denying that they did any of this. Fakebook is… Fakebook is denying that they have anything do with this. But it\u2019s silly to deny it because it\u2019s eminently and totally believable. But it\u2019s big because this is how… The same thing with pop culture. It\u2019s how most people find out what\u2019s going on. You know people are followers. If something\u2019s hot and popular, they want to be in on it, and they want people to think they agree with it and see it the same way.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s pretty hideous. And once again, all it does is confirm — amplify — that the left really has to censor its opposition because it cannot compete. Greg Gutfeld. Grab sound bite number one. Gutfeld, he says this pretty well. This was on The Five yesterday on the Fox News Channel, and Kimberly Guilfoyle was asking the group there on the show, “Why wouldn\u2019t [Fakebook] want those messages there? Because they have an agenda?”<\/p>\n

GUTFELD: The reason why they don\u2019t want it there is because it always wins. Wherever restrictions are removed, conservative thought takes over. If you think about talk radio in 1987 when all of a sudden those restrictions were gone, Rush Limbaugh took over. When the internet became a thing, what was the biggest site? Drudge Report. Cable news, CNN for a little while; then all of a sudden, boom! Fox News comes in; becomes number one. Wherever restrictions are pulled, conservative thought takes over because it\u2019s thought.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it does win, and it triumphs, and the left can\u2019t deal with it, and the left can\u2019t legitimately debate or fight, so they choose not to. They just censor it. That\u2019s what political correctness is: Censor it or eliminate it, or stigmatize it or attack it, and criticize leaders of movements that they perceive to exist and discredit them to discredit all the followers and discredit the thoughts and the beliefs. Anyway, nothing new here that you haven\u2019t heard before, other than the left has found a way to corrupt yet another what turns out to be sizable element of major, big time media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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