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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here is a couple of sound bites to illustrate a couple of points that I have been making all day on the program, specifically in the last hour. First up is the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. His name is John Fetterman. He was on CNN with Poppy Harlow, some show called CNN Newsroom on Friday. She had a question for him. She said, “Mr. Lieutenant Governor, it sounds like you don\u2019t think Twitter made the right decision by taking the president off the platform. Is that right?”<\/p>\n
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FETTERMAN: Saying that Pennsylvania was rigged or that we were trying to “steal” the election, unquote, that\u2019s a lie. And that… You do not have the right; that is not protected speech. The second those tweets went up, they should have been deleted. That\u2019s not de-platforming someone, it\u2019s deleting lies that are yelling “fire” in a crowded theater when there is none. And there\u2019s a difference. That is not protected speech. No one — Republican, Democrat, whatever — has the right to say those kind of incendiary lies.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Who gets to call \u2019em lies? Who is this magnificent personage sitting somewhere who gets to proclaim that whatever Trump said about Pennsylvania is lies? But more importantly, Lieutenant Governor Fetterman, who the hell did you people do for four years if not lie about Trump colluding with Russians to steal the 2016 election, when everybody knows it was Hillary Clinton that did exactly that?<\/p>\n
You guys still haven\u2019t conceded the 2016 election. Oh, yeah, Hillary may have, but you haven\u2019t. You\u2019re justifying everything you\u2019re doing to Donald Trump on the basis of a lie that you can\u2019t stop telling, and nobody is deplatforming you, and nobody is taking your tweets down — and nobody\u2019s even suggesting that your tweets, Lieutenant Governor Fetterman, come down.<\/p>\n
The Democrat Party has spent the last four years lying about the 2016 election. How in the world is what you people are continuing to do any different than what President Trump is saying about Pennsylvania today? You guys started all of this! You guys on the Democrat side with the media are the people who got it all rolling, that the American electoral system has been torched, that it has lost its honor and integrity.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re the ones for four years with never-ending reports in the New York Times (your Bible) and at CNN, the Washington Post (your Old Testament), that all of this that happened was undoubtedly true. You have put everything on your side up to the test of legitimacy, and you have claimed that Trump colluded with Putin. You said that he was a traitor. You said that he was an agent of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
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You said, and you never had a scintilla of evidence, Mr. Lieutenant Governor. The Mueller report came up with a flat-out nothing. There was no need for the Mueller report. There was never any evidence that Trump had done anything. But Donald Trump for a couple of weeks or a month talked about how Pennsylvania may have been compromised, and you think somebody is sitting up on high determining that\u2019s a lie.<\/p>\n
And for that, Donald Trump needs to have those tweets taken down. But nobody is suggesting that any of your lies be taken down? Nobody\u2019s even suggesting that what you guys said for four years is lies except people like me. But you don\u2019t have any evidence, and nobody made a move to shut you down. Nobody made a move to deplatform you.<\/p>\n
Nobody made a move to take your so-called offending tweets down. What have you said here? “Saying that Pennsylvania was rigged or that we were trying to ‘steal\u2019 the election, unquote, that\u2019s a lie.” What\u2019d you say about Donald Trump for four years and counting, Lieutenant Governor Fetterman? “You do not have the right; that is not protected speech.”<\/p>\n
What protected you for four years and counting?<\/p>\n
Oh, the New York Times report?<\/p>\n
Oh, I\u2019m sorry. The New York Times reporting it legitimizes it? No. The New York Times reporting it does nothing but slam the reputation of the New York Times. “The second those tweets went up from the president they should have been deleted.” I could say the same thing about the never-ending lies from James Clapper, from John Brennan, from Comey, from Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
I mean, the list is never-ending, the number of who consistently lied. Strzok Smirk, Lisa Page, that whole FBI cabal — and yet nobody made a move to take your tweets down or to suggest the New York Times not be able to report what they were reporting because they didn\u2019t have any evidence. They lied about the fact that they had evidence. But this is exactly what they do.<\/p>\n
If you dissent, you\u2019re a domestic terrorist, folks. If you dissent from whatever it is the Democrat Party today believes, they are claiming they have a right to shut you down, to delete your tweets. Now, the lieutenant governor here of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fetterman, stopped short of suggesting that Trump be deplatformed. He didn\u2019t agree with Rasputin Jack and his decision to take Trump off of Twitter.<\/p>\n
But we have somebody who does. Yes, you can always count on Democrats to give you what you want. Sunday morning on CNN\u2019s Reliable Sources<\/a>, our old buddy Little Brian Stelter has a guest, Stanford University professor and former chief security officer at Facebook, Alex Stamos. Question from Little Brian to Alex Stamos: “Will there ever be a solution to this information crisis that has been perpetuated, in my view, by platforms like Facebook as well as Twitter and others? Will there ever be a solution to the information crisis?”<\/p>\n STAMOS: There needs to be an intentional work by the social media companies collaborating together to work on violent extremism in the same way they worked on ISIS. We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences. There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than daytime CNN.<\/p>\n And so it\u2019s up to the Facebooks and YouTubes in particular to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation. And then we\u2019re gonna have to figure out the OANN<\/a> and NewsMax<\/a> problem. These companies have freedom of speech, but I\u2019m not sure we need to Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, isn\u2019t that comforting? We\u2019ll look at this with OANN and NewsMax. The OANN and NewsMax problem? What\u2019s that? “Well, these companies have freedom of speech,” yeah, have to be begrudging and grant them that, “but I\u2019m not sure we need to Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes.” What\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n They may as well not have freedom of speech if you\u2019re gonna say that they can\u2019t have platforms that give them a basis to operate. “And so it\u2019s up to the Facebooks and YouTubes in particular to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation.” So this guy is telling Little Brian, “There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than” you do, pal, and you ought to be really worried about that.<\/p>\n “There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than daytime CNN.” We gotta fix that! You need to have a bigger audience than they do. We need to find a way to make you bigger than you are. So this guy, Alex Stamos, I guarantee you, he doesn\u2019t know. I think he\u2019s so young (he\u2019s a former security officer at Facebook), I don\u2019t think he has the slightest idea how he sounds.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know he understands the First Amendment or the Constitution — and if he does, he doesn\u2019t support it. I\u2019m not trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. I guess it sounds like I am. He either doesn\u2019t understand the Constitution or just doesn\u2019t support it or believe in it. It\u2019s gotta be one of the two, because he does think these conservative groups…<\/p>\n He said, “Look. It\u2019s up to the Facebooks and YouTubes to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation.” That\u2019s what conservatism is, you see. Disinformation. “We have got to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences. They may as well be talking about me and radio stations. And they\u2019ll get there eventually.<\/p>\n Right now we\u2019re flying under the radar \u2019cause these people don\u2019t know what AM radio is, so they don\u2019t feel threatened by it. When they figure it out, they\u2019re gonna saying the same thing to our EIB affiliates that they\u2019re now saying to Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast. “Well, I mean, you know, Rush Limbaugh has the biggest audience of anybody in radio, and you gotta something about that. That\u2019s out-of-control conservatism. We can\u2019t let you do this.” Yeah, that\u2019s where we\u2019re headed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: If you dissent, you're a domestic terrorist, folks. If you dissent from whatever it is the Democrat Party today believes, they are claiming they have a right to shut you down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":320274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cnnstamos.png\")
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