{"id":7305,"date":"2015-01-19T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:20:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-19T18:20:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:20:37","slug":"limbaugh_institute_thesis_there_is_no_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/01\/19\/limbaugh_institute_thesis_there_is_no_media\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh Institute Thesis: There Is No Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Hi, folks, and welcome back. It is a sheer delight to have you with us. I\u2019m Rush Limbaugh, America\u2019s Real Anchorman. A Real Anchorman. I do the job that most anchormen ought to be doing. I tell you what\u2019s going on out there that you don\u2019t know about. I\u2019m not into advancing an agenda here, and certainly not the Democrat Party\u2019s agenda. That\u2019s all the news media is. There isn\u2019t any media anymore. Do you realize that? It isn\u2019t even media! I sent a friend of mine a fairly long treatise.<\/p>\n

If I were a doctoral candidate, this would be my thesis: “There is no media anymore.” I was watching the gaggle of reporters seated in the White House pressroom awaiting a press briefing last week. It might have been Josh Earnest coming out, or Obama; I don\u2019t remember. But it was a side view of all the reporters sitting there in their chairs in the White House pressroom waiting for the people to come in. It just struck me. (It\u2019s not anything new, by the way, this realization.) <\/p>\n

But they\u2019re not media. <\/line><\/p>\n

We call them the media, and they work for companies everybody assumes is media. They work in media, but they\u2019re not media. They\u2019re not news reporters. Nobody\u2019s digging things up anymore. Everything\u2019s a result of a press release sent via fax or e-mail. Everything is the daily soap opera, the narrative that\u2019s established by somebody every day, somewhere. White House, New York Times, or what have you. But there really isn\u2019t any media.<\/p>\n

In terms of the White House press corps or the Washington press corps, there really isn\u2019t any media. It\u2019s always struck me, and we just accept it because it\u2019s what it is and there\u2019s no way to change it. But we have the Republicans and the Democrats, and isn\u2019t it routine that on no matter what issue, no matter what piece of legislation\u2019s being debated, no matter what is being talked about, the media — understandably and people accept it — is always referred to as an obstacle for the Republicans? <\/p>\n

Everybody admits it. Everybody knows that the media is yet another obstacle for the Republicans to overcome. Well, how in the world can that be media? This is not about the media being biased, which of course it is. That\u2019s too cliched. The fact of the matter is, there really isn\u2019t media. They just call themselves that, and they get to live off the idea that they\u2019re reporters. They get to live off the idea that what they tell us is news, but it isn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

What they tell us is designed to shape your opinion about things, not inform you. Now, that may be cutting it a little too close because shaping your opinion does include informing you, but they inform you of certain things a certain way. It\u2019s all designed to get you thinking and concluding things. It\u2019s not about informing you and letting you make up your own mind, and I don\u2019t mean to sound Pollyannaish and Civics 101 about it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s more a pet peeve than anything anyway, but they\u2019re not media. They are something else. They are a branch office of the Democrat Party, they\u2019re the steno pool for the Obama administration, but they\u2019re not media. We don\u2019t have a media, when you get right down to it. We have pockets of it. I mean, you probably have some media in your local town digging up stories on sewage problems and stuff, or how to bake a carrot cake recipe for the holidays, but even that is a stretch. <\/p>\n

There really isn\u2019t any media. <\/p>\n

Now, the reason this is important is because so many people on our side are still waiting for the moment when the media all of a sudden becomes fair. They\u2019re not going to ever think positively about themselves, and they\u2019re not ever going to think that we\u2019re winning, until the media sees it our way. And the media\u2019s never gonna see it our way \u2019cause they\u2019re not about seeing it our way! They\u2019re not us. I\u2019ll tell you another way this manifests itself. <\/line><\/p>\n

My good buddy Andy McCarthy had another brilliant piece on Saturday at National Review Online, on stopping Obama. Now, he\u2019s written a book on impeachment, and he\u2019s made the case that impeachment\u2019s a political thing, and you can\u2019t proceed until the political circumstances are right in the country. It\u2019s not so much a legal or constitutional proceeding. Rather, it\u2019s a political thing. <\/p>\n

The Republicans have judged that they have no prayer of ever succeeding, so they have said publicly that they\u2019re never going to do it. They have announced that impeachment\u2019s off the table, which, as far as Obama\u2019s concerned, is a license to do whatever he wants to do whenever. Because he\u2019s just been told that his political opponents have no intention of stopping him. Now, why aren\u2019t the Republicans going to proceed with impeachment? <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not because of Obama\u2019s race. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not because of Obama. <\/p>\n

The Republicans are not proceeding with impeachment because of one thing: The media. It is the media that\u2019s gonna call \u2019em racist, it\u2019s the media that\u2019s gonna try to destroy them, it\u2019s the media that\u2019s gonna make mincemeat of \u2019em, it\u2019s the media that they\u2019re afraid of. Therefore, we\u2019re not dealing with media here. We\u2019re dealing with something else, but it isn\u2019t media. And it\u2019s not journalism, by the same token. <\/p>\n

Media and journalism have come to mean the same thing, but they\u2019re not. The media, journalists, are every bit the enemy and opponent that Obama and the Democrat Party are. In fact, the media has more to do with paralyzing Republicans than the Democrats do. Do you think the media need the Democrats calling Republican racists to do it? No. The media will do it themselves. That\u2019s not media, folks. That\u2019s not journalism. That\u2019s something else. <\/p>\n

That something else is its own political entity that is itself the Democrat Party or a branch office of or what have you. Now, they try to tell us they\u2019re media. There are people just like them on the right. I\u2019m one, for example, but I don\u2019t pretend to be media, and I don\u2019t pretend to be a journalist. I\u2019m an activist, in a sense. But more than anything else, I\u2019m an advocate. So are they. They are not media. They\u2019re advocates. They are advocates for one side. <\/p>\n

But they never, ever admit that. They hide behind the fact that they are “The Media,” and it is an absolute joke to watch these people seated in the White House press room… (interruption) Yeah, it was Obama and David Cameron coming out. It was gonna be a joint press conference. It\u2019s an absolute joke to think those people are actually there to try to ask incisive, burning questions, given who the participants are. Now, if it were a Republican president they would become media all of a sudden.<\/p>\n

They would be doing everything they could to prove the Republican president\u2019s full of it and is lying, and they would try to take down powerful people like we\u2019re told the media\u2019s job is. “Speak truth to power” and all that. But I looked at this gaggle of people sitting there and the last thing they were is reporters. The last thing they were there for is to find out something that people didn\u2019t know about what Obama and Cameron were gonna do and report it. The only reason they were there is to protect Obama. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, that\u2019s not media.<\/p>\n

And when you have an entire political party paralyzed because of the media, that\u2019s also not the media — and that is really, really quite telling — and I think we do. We have a Republican Party, in certain, ways that\u2019s paralyzed, in other ways they don\u2019t disagree with Democrats. But still there are enough areas of disagreement that, like impeachment or whatever. They just will not voice what they really think about a whole bunch of things. Not because of what Obama\u2019s gonna say about it, not because of what Harry Reid\u2019s gonna say.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what the media is gonna say. Again, the media doesn\u2019t need to wait for what Obama says in order to call Republican names. They can do it themselves. A classic example here is what\u2019s being done to the movie American Sniper. By the way, I don\u2019t think this is any big revelation. To me, words mean things. The definition of words mean things. I must also say, I\u2019m having greater and greater trouble communicating with people just in a day-to-day basis. I communicate primarily by e-mail and text, \u2019cause I hate the phone. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mind FaceTime audio; I can hear that. But I\u2019ve gotten to the point where, when I\u2019m telling people things, I have to not only say what I want to say. The next sentence I explain what I mean, and I send it to them twice \u2019cause I\u2019m finding out people… Like I help a lot of people with their problems on their iPhone, or their iPad or their Mac. You know, I\u2019m the guy in my group of friends and family that I have the answers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m the go-to guy if you need something fixed. It\u2019s amazing how many times I have to explain one thing. It is amazing. I\u2019ll write, “Here\u2019s what to do.” I\u2019ll be as expressly clear as I can, and I\u2019ll wait for a question that has totally ignored what I\u2019ve written previously, and I\u2019ll have to explain it again. Communication is a very difficult thing to pull off. And then trying to understand what other people are saying?<\/p>\n

Somebody sent me an e-mail today, and I had to write her back three times to ask, “What are you really trying to tell me here?” It took me three times, \u2019cause I didn\u2019t want to assume what she meant. It was about the Muslim call to prayer at Duke. So words mean things to me. I mean, it\u2019s a very big, big, big deal. (interruption) I am a literal guy. I am the mayor of Realville. I am profoundly literal, and most people aren\u2019t. That\u2019s not a criticism. It just puts me in a frustrating circumstance a lot. <\/line><\/p>\n

I say exactly what I mean, and as clearly and as directly as I can. And then to have to repeat it two or three times because it\u2019s glossed over, not read carefully, or not understood kind of frustrates me. But that\u2019s no big deal. That\u2019s personal stuff. My point here is to me, “media” is a word that means things. “Media” means they\u2019re in the news business. They\u2019re in the business of gathering news that nobody knows about, in the process they tell us things that we don\u2019t know, and that\u2019s how we become informed. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what they are. But yet that\u2019s how they\u2019re looked at. It\u2019s really important. Most low-information people, they watch the news thinking they\u2019re watching the news. They\u2019re not watching the news. They\u2019re not watching media. They\u2019re watching the daily Democrat Party devotional or whatever else you want to call it. The reporters seated in the pressroom eagerly writing down what is said? They\u2019re not reporters. They\u2019re advocates. They\u2019re not interested in informing people what they don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

They are only interested in shaping people\u2019s opinions about what happens to be in the daily soap opera script that particular day. Today what everybody\u2019s doubled down on is Obama\u2019s tax cuts that are gonna be announced in the State of the Union show and why they\u2019re being announced and what their purpose is. There isn\u2019t any real information being provided. There\u2019s no digging into this. There is simply “the media” bending and shaping and flaking and forming and reporting all this in such a way as to accomplish two things:<\/p>\n

Smooth sailing for Obama.<\/p>\n

“Boy, it\u2019s great that he wants to do it! It\u2019s compassionate, it\u2019s fair, it\u2019s equal!”<\/p>\n

And the other half of it is that no matter what the Republicans say, “It\u2019s mean-spirited, extremist, and benefits the rich.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how it\u2019s all being prepped today. So even before the Republicans say a word in response, the media today is telling consumers, “The Republicans oppose it because they favor the rich. They like the rich getting rich. They like the rich staying rich. They don\u2019t like the rich having to give up any money. They don\u2019t want you to make any more than you have. They love income inequality!” That\u2019s part of the quote\/unquote “reporting”? <\/p>\n

No! They\u2019re shaping the story to help Obama. <\/p>\n

The reason why is Obama now is faced with a Republican House and a Republican Senate, and in the normal ebb and flow, Obama\u2019s proposals don\u2019t stand a prayer. So it\u2019s time to shame the Republicans and go out and find the weak-kneed, linguine-spined Republicans and shame them and embarrass them for defending the rich and maybe turn them. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on here. There\u2019s no reporting. There\u2019s no news. There isn\u2019t any media taking place here. They\u2019re not media! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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