{"id":386593,"date":"2021-03-15T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=386593"},"modified":"2021-05-26T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:19:07","slug":"rush-always-said-if-the-media-makes-you-the-media-can-break-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/15\/rush-always-said-if-the-media-makes-you-the-media-can-break-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Always Said: If the Media Makes You, the Media Can Break You"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: Ah, Governor Cuomo. Governor Cuomo could best be summed up as an example of what Rush always said about media-made status. Now, over the weekend over on CBS\u2019 Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan asked mayor of New York Bill de Blasio, Comrade Bill de Blasio, “Do you believe that he” Andrew Cuomo “and his administration deliberately tried to cover-up the scale of the nursing deaths?”<\/p>\n

DE BLASIO: I don\u2019t have a doubt in my mind. Uh, everything was about his public image. Everything was about his political future. It was not about what people needed — and, by the way, it was about campaign contributions.<\/p>\n

BRETT: The New York Times, “The Rise and Fall of Andrew Cuomo — The quote from the reporter is, “Mr. Cuomo, our politics reporter writes, finds himself sliding from hero-level worship to pariah-like status with a kind of astonishing speed that only the friendless suffer.” Wow. This is a huge fall from the top of the media tower. Well, Rush spoke about this and shared with all of us what he learned about the media.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: This is the overriding philosophy that I also evolved — the media cannot destroy you if they\u2019re not the ones who make you. But if the media makes you, in other words, let\u2019s say you have a TV show and it\u2019s actually number 10 in the market but the media loves you and they write about it all the time, and they talk about it all the time, and they promote it, and they make everybody think it\u2019s number one. The day comes when they don\u2019t like you, they can take you out.<\/p>\n

\"\"Because you never have been what they say you are. If they build you up and it\u2019s unreal and untrue, they can take you out. And that is an overriding philosophy that I, whenever I\u2019m asked by anybody in this business or in an ancillary way, do not go the PR route, do not try to have buzz and PR define your success. Make it real. Make your success real and dependent on real people making you a success, not some media buzz, because that is fleeting. They can take that away from you and you\u2019re a nobody. But they can\u2019t take away from you what they haven\u2019t built.<\/p>\n

BRETT: The enduring reason why Rush was so successful for all the years he was is he was true to himself and true to his vision. The media didn\u2019t make him. Remember from last May, Cuomo asked all these people to come and help — and many did — on a voluntary basis, only to find out that they\u2019d be subjected to state taxes if they worked in New York for 14 days?<\/p>\n

Remember that scandal with Andrew Cuomo? He says, “Listen, if you\u2019re a doctor, if you\u2019re a nurse, if you\u2019re an orderly, if you\u2019re any of these people, you\u2019ve gotta come to New York and you\u2019ve gotta come and try to save our people. But, by the way, you will be subjected to New York state taxes if you work in New York for more than 14 days.”<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember that being something that happened when Pataki was governor and Giuliani was mayor in the wake of 9\/11. I just don\u2019t remember that being the priority. “Well, if you\u2019re gonna come and volunteer and help out, then we\u2019re gonna have to make you pay the taxes.”<\/p>\n

Even the state government asked thousands of people to come to New York from out of state to fight the coronavirus, they have to pay state taxes in New York even on income they might make from their home states that they paid while in New York. Cuomo said that he needed help from Washington in order to cover budget deficits from covid-19, let alone subsidize state income tax for essential workers that flocked to New York\u2019s aid.<\/p>\n

Well, here was Rush giving you the latest and the best analysis on Andrew Cuomo, an arrogant, ignorant failure.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: A quick question. Are you a health care worker? Are you a nurse? Are you an EMT? Are you anybody who does anything in health care? Did you volunteer, for example, to go to New York during the peak period? Did you volunteer as a health care worker to go to New York to help out? Did you do more than was asked of you? Did you go above and beyond?<\/p>\n

\"\"Did you knowingly put yourself at greater risk than any of your fellow citizens by volunteering to go to New York during the peak reporting period of covid-19 cases? If you did, if you don\u2019t live in New York, if you went to New York from some other place, and if you stayed there for 14 days, guess what? New York\u2019s governor is going to make you pay New York state income tax for your volunteer efforts. And people wonder why I left. People wonder why I moved out of there in 1997.<\/p>\n

Health care workers that came to New York to help fight the coronavirus pandemic at its epicenter will have to pay state taxes according to one of the goofiest and most screwed-up governors. You know, it\u2019s classic. You take a look at people the Drive-By Media heralds and makes big stars out of, and they\u2019re the biggest doofuses around. And the blue state idiocy is epitomized by Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n

Good grief what this guy has done. Folks, try this headline here: “NYC Starts Historic Overnight subway shutdowns for virus-linked disinfecting.” So Andrew Cuomo goes to a subway car, many of which have been taken care over by blue state homeless who are infecting people left and right, and he goes up there and he starts spraying disinfectant on a subway car. And he starts talking about, why, this is revolutionary, why, we\u2019ve never done this before.<\/p>\n

Who knew that you could disinfect a subway car? Do you disinfect your toilet at home, Governor? Did you grow up not knowing how that happened? Did your mom disinfect a toilet or did a maid come in and do it? Do you have any idea how cleanliness happens? The guy was shocked and stunned you could disinfect a subway car.<\/p>\n

So now he\u2019s getting heralded as being a great governor for disinfecting the New York City subway after not disinfecting it. It was one of the greatest condensations of close proximity of people. It was a breeding ground for the virus. And this ace kept it open. He said they had to keep it open for all the essential jobs and services. People need the subway to get to work.<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, that and his nursing home debacle is why New York leads the country in infections and deaths, and yet this guy is heralded as the next Democrat savior, the next Democrat nominee. It\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s obscene. “New York City\u2019s subway system — the nation\u2019s largest — went silent in the early morning hours Wednesday as the normally round-the-clock system shut down for train disinfecting.<\/p>\n

“Service was curtailed in late March, but is now being stopped entirely from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. each day.” Get this. “It\u2019s the first time in 115 years service hasn\u2019t been 24\/7 except in times of emergency, and Governor Andrew Cuomo says there\u2019s no way to know when service will return to normal.” Of course not. He\u2019s only the governor. He doesn\u2019t know jack.<\/p>\n

I mean, this is just flat-out amazing. And then we haven\u2019t even talked about how this guy put infected people in nursing homes. It\u2019s like putting them into the crypt. It defies explanation. Nursing homes are the single greatest — outside of the New York subway — greatest concentration of noted cases and deaths.<\/p>\n

And not just in New York. It\u2019s happened in other blue states where blue state governors have decided the people they didn\u2019t want, let\u2019s pack \u2019em off to the nursing homes. So Cuomo, he put infected people in nursing homes. That led to thousands of deaths. The Democrats in the media have been literally fawning all over Cuomo. He was just named…<\/p>\n

Do you know this, Mr. Snerdley? I know this is gonna ace you out. He was just named the most eligible man in New York. That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right. I know. And, see, the thing is these blue state failures — these arrogant, conceded, liberal elites who have caused this country more trouble than you can possibly imagine — are built up, heralded, and converted into heroes.<\/p>\n

They get nothing but great publicity and great coverage in the media, and they pose actual dangers. Anyway, here is Governor Cuomo explaining why he can\u2019t extend tax-free status to health care workers from all over the fruited plain who volunteered to go to New York to help out during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in the city.<\/p>\n

\"\"CUOMO: We have a $13 billion deficit, so there\u2019s a lot of good things I would like to do — uh, and if we get federal funding, we can do — but it would be irresponsible for me to sit here looking at a $13 billion deficit and say, “Uh, I\u2019m gonna spend more money on, uhhh,” when I can\u2019t even pay the essential services.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The question he got from an unidentified so-called reporter (impression), “Have you considered waving the state tax on emergency workers who volunteered to come here from out of state?” “No, no, no. Ah, no way. We have a $13 billion deficit.” Who, by the way, gave us that? Who is it that\u2019s been presiding over all of these unfunded pension liabilities?<\/p>\n

Who is it that has been running that state in the most incompetent way? A $13 billion — and then he says, “There\u2019s a lot of good things I\u2019d like to do. Yes, I\u2019d love to make sure that those volunteers don\u2019t have to pay state taxes — and if we get federal funding, we can do it. Yeah, if somebody comes along and gives me some money, then we can do it. “But if mean Mr. Orange Man doesn\u2019t give me any money, then these volunteers are gonna get bupkis. (Raspberry!)” Man, oh, man.<\/p>\n

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