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RUSH: Couple of audio sound bites here before we get to the meat and potatoes of the program. This is just to illustrate something. You remember — what was it? I guess three weeks ago now, maybe a month where we heard that “Steak” Clyburn at the FCC wanted to post monitors in all of the newsrooms — well, Mignon. I called her Steak as a nickname. Mignon Clyburn, the daughter of James Clyburn, who\u2019s also an accredited member in good standing with the Congressional Black Caucasians. She wanted to post monitors in all the newsrooms to measure how the newsrooms covered the news. Why they did a story; why they didn\u2019t report a story. Why did they report the story they did report the way they reported it. This kind of stuff. <\/p>\n

There was no outrage from the Drive-Bys. The Drive-Bys didn\u2019t give a hoot. They\u2019ve already thrown in. They looked at administration monitors as a chance to impress the boss, somebody with a direct pipeline to Obama watching, “Hey, man, this is a way for me to get noticed by the big guy.” But a lot of people, me included, recognized what this was. This was a back-door attempt at intimidating news organizations into shaping comment and coverage of the way the Regime wanted it. When that reaction happened then Steak Clyburn said (paraphrasing), “No, no, no, no. You got it all wrong. This is about minority ownership. We don\u2019t have enough minority ownership, and we\u2019re trying to find ways to increase minority ownership.” <\/line><\/p>\n

And everybody said, “Well, what\u2019s this got to do with it, then? Why does posting hall monitors in there to measure the content of what\u2019s reported, what isn\u2019t reported, what\u2019s that got to do with minority ownership?” Anyway, the jig was up, and they eventually announced they\u2019re pulling back and canceling the whole plan, which they\u2019re not. They\u2019re just shelving it for another time when the temperature falls, not as much heat on it, and they can sneak it in when nobody\u2019s looking. ‘Cause the left never gives up an idea. They never retreat fully or they never abandon things. They just try to find a more strategic maneuver. <\/p>\n

During this time, Byron York, who is a reporter for the Washington Examiner, sent me a note asking for my comment and I didn\u2019t see his note \u2019cause I was off the grid. His note came in on a Saturday and I had 20 family members in town for a belated birthday bash, mine. So I was off the grid, and I didn\u2019t see Byron\u2019s note \u2019til it was too late to comment for his story. So I did send him a note and he said, “Rush, I think this really is about — I\u2019ve gone back, I\u2019ve looked at Steak\u2019s history, I\u2019ve looked at Steak Clyburn, what she\u2019s had to say about it. She really is interested in minority ownership, but I think it is back door Fairness Doctrine<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

He said, “Rush, you have to admit, this is all about getting rid of you. They just can\u2019t figure out how to get rid of you, and they tried it with any number of hosts. They tried it with the Fairness Doctrine; that didn\u2019t fly. You\u2019ve tried to help \u2019em get rid of you with some comments, but not even you could destroy yourself, Rush, and they\u2019re frustrated that they can\u2019t. And it turns out when this whole thing broke, by the way, I told you, I said be on the lookout, folks, I\u2019ll bet it was journalism schools that came up with this idea for Steak Clyburn to post these monitors. <\/line><\/p>\n

And, lo and behold, it was. It was the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. They have an honorary degree for Ronan Farrow<\/a>, by the way, I understand, is coming, and the University of Madison Wisconsin. It was those two. Another honorary degree for Ronan Farrow, coming from there, too, I understand. He\u2019s been on the air for six days, and that qualifies honorary degree at every j-school. That\u2019s coming. Anyway, so it was j-schools that did it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to get to the sound bite, Byron was on Fox & Friends today, and he was talking to Brian Kilmeade about this. What has been learned is that George Soros money is behind all of this. It is George Soros money that has funded these projects at the two j-schools. So Byron was on there to talk about that. Kilmeade said, “New reports have linked big Democrat donors like George Soros to some pretty shady behavior. <\/p>\n

“His Open Society Foundation has given $1.4 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison\u2019s journalism school, and $300,000 to the school\u2019s Madison Commons Project. They also went out to the West Coast, to USC where they received $195,000 in donations and the school partnered with the Soros Foundation on ‘ethnic media conferences.\u2019 It looks like he\u2019s trying gain influence with the next generation of journalists.”<\/p>\n

YORK: You mentioned those two because they were the ones who are involved in this study from the Federal Communications Commission. You have to look kind of at the bigger picture with the study. Because a lot of liberal reformers have been very unhappy for years at the continued success of Rush Limbaugh, and they want to limit that success, if they can. They used to cling to the hope that they could restore the old Fairness Doctrine. Clearly unconstitutional. I think they\u2019ve given up on that. But they\u2019ve come up with a new idea called “media diversity.” They want to change the ownership of radio stations around the country. If they can do that, new owners won\u2019t play Limbaugh; they reduce his influence that way. That\u2019s what they want to do.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what he has researched. He has found that Steak Clyburn is serious about this “minority ownership,” and the theory is that if they can get a bunch of minorities owning radio stations… Not networks. I mean, networks would be fine. But if they get minorities owning radio stations, then it just follows (Doesn\u2019t it?) that those minorities would get rid of me. It just follows. It\u2019s just axiomatic, apparently.<\/p>\n

They would get rid of me and all of the revenue generated by the program. That\u2019d be one of the first things they would do to be automatic heroes. Do you realize how long that would take? I mean, that\u2019s a pretty convoluted effort. We\u2019re on 612 radio stations. To have an impact, you\u2019d have to have over half of \u2019em change ownership — and they\u2019re gonna have to hurry up here, too, because there aren\u2019t a limitless number of years that I\u2019m going to be able to do this. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s right. They are just bamboozled. They have tried for 25 years every which way they can. I think that\u2019s why, as I was alluding to yesterday, they\u2019ve invested so much hope in this kid at MSNBC. They\u2019ve just done it with whoever they think can win. They tried it with Air America. That\u2019s why I said, “Can you name one big-name quote\/unquote star media performer on the left?” And you can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

I mean, they\u2019re everywhere, but there\u2019s not one that embodies what they do, or is perceived as elite, and it just irritates them. The reason for that… Well, I\u2019m not gonna give that way. There\u2019s a reason why they\u2019re never gonna be able to accomplish what we\u2019ve accomplished here. They do not understand the business. That\u2019s as much as I need to say about it. (interruption) Well, they do. They\u2019ve got everything else. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re very open about it. It\u2019s Me and Fox News. Me, talk radio, Fox News. They\u2019ve got everything else. They\u2019ve got 95% of it. But they are inspired, motivated by one principle, and that is the elimination of all opposition. Not debating with, not being bipartisan with, not winning an argument of ideas in the arena of ideas, but eliminating the opposition — and they\u2019re profoundly frustrated they haven\u2019t been able to do it. <\/p>\n

So Byron was on, and I just wanted to pass this on to you. I want you to be fully aware that your host remains a big target for these people. Nothing new there, but I just wanted to pass that on. Byron has done his research and found this out. Now, just a couple other sound bites with me. I\u2019m gonna get \u2019em out of the way, and then we will move on. Fusion TV. Do you ever watch Fusion TV? Have you ever heard of Fusion TV? <\/p>\n

Fusion is ABC\u2019s cable channel geared toward the Hispanic audience, and they had last night a guest, Alicia Menendez. Now, Alicia Menendez is the daughter of Robert Menendez, the Democrat senator from New Jersey who routinely accepted free private jet flights from a donor to the Dominican Republic and other love destinations in the Caribbean where he had flings with women who were not his wife. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s his daughter that is on the Fusion network and talking about the ABC broadcast of the Oscars and, of course, your beloved host<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MENENDEZ: 43.7 million people turned into watch Ellen DeGeneres host the Oscars Sunday night, the most in 11 years, and, yes, even Rush Limbaugh watched.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: I watched it all. … It was filled with self-satisfaction and pats on the back and how important they all are and how compassionate, giving, caring, you know, all of those adjectives they reserve exclusively to themselves.<\/p>\n

MENENDEZ: Rush is right. The Oscars are a night of adjectives, “best” perhaps the foremost among them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they just… What do I have to do with this story? See, this is the point. What do I have to do with that? What\u2019s the…? (interruption) Yeah, the fact that I watched the Academy Awards is news? (chuckles) And then one more bite — and of course, this is obligatory. This is the comment that I made about 12 Years a Slave winning that just has them all still in a tizzy.<\/p>\n

MENENDEZ: Having made it through the whole ceremony, Limbaugh took issue with the fact that 12 Years a Slave — a tense, powerful film that Ellen joked was a lock for Best Picture — won Best Picture.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: There\u2019s no way that move was not gonna win. If it was the only thing that movie won, it was gonna win Best Picture. There was no way it wouldn\u2019t. It didn\u2019t matter if it was good or bad. I haven\u2019t seen it. It was going to win. It had the magic word in the title: “slave.”<\/p>\n

MENENDEZ: Yep, Rush calls it like he sees it — and he saw the Oscars. He did not 12 Years a Slave. But his batty logic holds up, people. I guess that\u2019s why Django Unchained and Amistad didn\u2019t win an Oscar.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you go. “My batty logic, she has… (laughing) She has to acknowledge “my batty logic.” Rush is right. “I guess that\u2019s why Django Unchained and Amistad didn\u2019t win an Oscar.” So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Your host announcing he watched the Oscars is big news on the left.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mike in New Port Richey, Florida. Welcome, sir. Glad that you called.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Hello. Rush, this idea about putting in federal monitors in radio stations, what bothers me a lot when I first heard about it, what about the theft of intellectual property? You know, Peter Drucker said years ago that the most important thing you had in your company is your marketing, innovation. That\u2019s what brings the customers in, and the federal government are gonna put people in there to basically steal your intellectual property, to give to competitors.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, either that, or intimidate you into shaping what you do and do not report. Either way, they don\u2019t have the constitutional authority to do it. The press has its own clause in the First Amendment. It\u2019s called the freedom of the press. They\u2019ve got their own clause. And that is just an abject, direct violation. And nobody — this is important to remind you — nobody in what we call the mainstream media objected to this at all. There was no outrage over this at all. <\/p>\n

Now, there would have been had a Republican proposed this. However, that would have never happened. This would have never occurred to a conservative. This would never occur to a Republican — government monitors in newsrooms to do a study on what\u2019s covered and what isn\u2019t and why, and then to provide intimidation. Nor would they think of putting people in there to steal what these people are doing to give to minority broadcasters so they can leg up competitively. It wouldn\u2019t occur to conservatives to do this. But it is just like turning on the tap water for Democrats to think of it, and there wasn\u2019t one bit of opposition to it in the Drive-Bys. It was stunning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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