{"id":7162,"date":"2015-02-05T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:31:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-05T19:31:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:31:55","slug":"dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rather to Brian Williams: Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: So I got an e-mail from a friend, says, “I can hear it in your voice. You\u2019re having trouble going all in on Brian Williams,” and that\u2019s true, folks. I\u2019m telling you. I\u2019ve always liked Brian. Brian Williams has always been fair to me. Do you know how odd — or not odd — rare that is? I can count on one hand in 27 years the number of people that we would call mainstream journalists who have been consistently fair with me. He\u2019s one of them. But (sigh) I don\u2019t mean to be holding back. It\u2019s just hard to pile on.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand it. I mean, I understand it. It\u2019s clear as a bell what happened here. But I don\u2019t understand doing it. But the point is, it is — it is — what happened in the news today. It is! What else are they making up, wherever you look? This wasn\u2019t even about advancing an agenda. This was about personal aggrandizement, saying that you were aboard a helicopter shot down. I mean, this wasn\u2019t even part of the news stories denigrating the war effort. <\/p>\n

So you can imagine! We know that NBC makes things up. We know that NBC doctors 9\/11 tapes and blows up trucks to make it look like it\u2019s happening without any assistance from NBC. We know what goes on in the Drive-By Media. This is just a classic, bold-faced example of it. There\u2019s no question. I mean, you look at the people that MSNBC has fired for things that are much, much less than this. They\u2019ve fired Olbermann. They fired some guy named Cenk Uygur.<\/p>\n

They fired Martin Bashir because he told a total lie about slaveholders making slaves eat excrement or something when that movie came out, 12 Years a Slave or what it was. He just totally made up some absolutely horrendous, reprehensible story about… (interruption) Oh, that\u2019s right! He suggested Sarah Palin should have to eat the whatever. Yeah, that\u2019s what it was. That\u2019s what it was. I mean, these people are just, they\u2019re filled with it. It\u2019s overflowing, their hatred and their rage and their anger and they clearly will make it up if it advances the agenda. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I don\u2019t even call what they\u2019re doing anymore “journalism,” and that\u2019s why they\u2019re not “news readers;” they\u2019re “narrative readers.” Anyway, Dan Rather… I told you they\u2019re gonna try to circle the wagons to protect the news. Dan Rather. The Politico has the story: “Dan Rather Backs Brian Williams.” If I\u2019m Brian Williams, the last guy I want speaking up for me is Dan Rather. Dan Rather of fake documents and George W. Bush and National Guard fame? That\u2019s the last guy I want throwing a party for me.<\/p>\n

But, anyway, from the article. Dan Rather: “I don\u2019t know the particulars about that day in Iraq. I do know Brian. He\u2019s a longtime friend and we have been in a number of war zones and on the same battlefields, competing but together. Brian is an honest decent man, an excellent reporter and anchor — and a brave one.” Well, what do you do with that? Because that (chuckles) sad to say, is not commensurate with any element of this story. (impression) “He\u2019s a longtime friend and we have been in a number of war zones and on the same battlefields, competing but together.<\/p>\n

“Brian is an honest decent man, an excellent reporter and anchor — and a brave one.” (sigh) Anyway, it\u2019s just the first one I think of what are gonna be many. They circle the wagons, folks. They protect themselves. In this case, they\u2019re gonna be protecting the news. They\u2019re gonna be protecting liberalism. They\u2019re gonna be protecting the image of liberalism and the Drive-By Media and all of that, just like Jennings and Brokaw threw Rather his own awards banquet after he made up that story about George W. Bush. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So I got an e-mail from a friend, says, “I can hear it in your voice. You\u2019re having trouble going all in on Brian Williams,” and that\u2019s true, folks. I\u2019m telling you. I\u2019ve always liked Brian. Brian Williams has always been fair to me. Do you know how odd — or not odd — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDan Rather to Brian Williams: Courage - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dan Rather to Brian Williams: Courage - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: So I got an e-mail from a friend, says, “I can hear it in your voice. You\u2019re having trouble going all in on Brian Williams,” and that\u2019s true, folks. I\u2019m telling you. I\u2019ve always liked Brian. Brian Williams has always been fair to me. Do you know how odd — or not odd — […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"GeorgePrayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/\",\"name\":\"Dan Rather to Brian Williams: Courage - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-02-05T19:31:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-02-05T19:31:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Dan Rather to Brian Williams: Courage\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\",\"name\":\"GeorgePrayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"GeorgePrayias\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dan Rather to Brian Williams: Courage - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Dan Rather to Brian Williams: Courage - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: So I got an e-mail from a friend, says, “I can hear it in your voice. You\u2019re having trouble going all in on Brian Williams,” and that\u2019s true, folks. I\u2019m telling you. I\u2019ve always liked Brian. Brian Williams has always been fair to me. Do you know how odd — or not odd — […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"GeorgePrayias","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#website","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/","name":"Dan Rather to Brian Williams: Courage - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2015-02-05T19:31:55+00:00","dateModified":"2015-02-05T19:31:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/05\/dan_rather_to_brian_williams_courage\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dan Rather to Brian Williams: Courage"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4","name":"GeorgePrayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"GeorgePrayias"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}