Rush Transcript ::: 02/13/2009

Posted on this thread at FR: Axelrod Says Obama to Discuss Fairness Doctrine

RUSH: Okay, Bill Clinton has said we gotta have enforced media accountability. “All the big money has gone to support right-wing talk shows.” Mr. President, if I may, all the big money is not in talk radio. It’s all your Library and Massage Parlor. What I wouldn’t give for the amount of money that’s been donated to Bill Clinton and his Library and Massage Parlor! That’s where the big money is in this country. Now, how unhappy can these Democrats be? They’ve got 60 votes in the Senate. They own the House of Representatives. They occupy the White House. They control the media. Just what do they want? Karl Marx said it. You know what “peace” is in Karl Marx’s definition? The absence of opposition to socialism. That is peace. The absence of opposition to a leftist, to a socialist, and that’s what they’re aiming for this is a major transformation of the United States, as Obama promised. Let’s not forget Clinton in 1994, June. He was flying in to dedicate some train station in St. Louis, and he called the morning show in our blowtorch affiliate there, KMOX.

CLINTON: After I get off the radio today with you, Rush Limbaugh will have three hours to say whatever he wants —

HOST: Would you like to leave a message?

CLINTON: — and I won’t have any opportunity to respond. And there’s no truth detector. You won’t get on afterwards and say what was true and what wasn’t.

RUSH: Isn’t this amazing? That sounds like exactly what I’m saying about the Drive-By Media today. And he had the Drive-By Media totally in his tank, too. That was 1994. They’re writing stories about the power crackling in his tight-fitting jeans as he strolled Catalina Island. We had Nina Burleigh promising a “Lewinsky,” promising a BJ just to thank Clinton for keeping abortion legal. I mean, the press was totally in the tank. It’s not really a new concept for them with Obama. It’s just total now. It’s 100%. Gone is any curiosity. Gone is any attempt to keep people in power, honest. They have aligned themselves with the Democrat Party and the leftist machinery of Obama. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals number 13: “Isolate the target, polarize it, paralyze it.” Make sure you pick an individual, not a group or a company. It has to be an individual. That’s exactly what they did to Bush. Bush didn’t respond. I do. Nevertheless, this is their attempt going forward.

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RUSH: One more thing. Bill Clinton knows this. “All the big money’s in talk radio.” What big money? Where does this money come from? All the money in talk radio comes... Do you know where the money in talk radio comes from, Snerdley? Where does...? (interruption) Well, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. Well, you’re getting closer as you keep taking these wild guesses. I asked Snerdley, “Where does all this big money in talk radio come from, in any radio?” He said, “From advertisers, from big business, from commerce.” Yeah. Where does that come from? Where does that money come from? From the audience, exactly right, the people that buy.

Mr. President, the big money in radio or the big money in Super Bowl or the big money in American Idol or wherever you want to go that there’s big money, in the private sector, the big money comes from our audiences. The big money comes from listeners. Without them there wouldn’t be any money. We don’t run around fundraising. We don’t run around asking for donations. Listeners! Loyal, lovable, totally appreciated listeners who purchase products and services advertised on radio. There is no “big money.” There’s no George Soros here as there is in Air America. There’s no party behind talk radio, as with Air America and the Democrat Party. There’s no big money here at all. There’s certainly not any big money like you got, Mr. President, from the ChiComs and your illegal campaign donations. We in talk radio don’t engage in crooked real estate deals.

We didn’t bring in people to our studios for coffee and shake ‘em down, promising not to criticize them on the radio if they will just pay us off. We don’t bring in interns here and start using cigars in nefarious ways. We don’t have massage parties here in our broadcast studios. Well, I can’t speak for some of the long-haired, maggot-infested FM types and what they’re doing in their studios. (laughing) But I haven’t had one visit from a ChiCom advertiser. I haven’t had a guy that owns a Chinese restaurant in Little Rock walk in to some office with $200 million in unsigned money orders for me for big money. I haven’t people from Dubai, from the United Arab Emirates, from Saudi Arabia pay me 150 to $400,000 for a speech ripping my own country while I’m in theirs! I don’t do things like this, Mr. President. My money, our money comes (just as government’s does) from the American people — and our money is puny compared to yours. Clinton Global Initiative? We don’t have anything like that. What big money, Mr. President?

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