Posted on 08/23/2005 5:08:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
RUSH: There is a network today that is obsessed with Pat Robertson. This network has called me no less than three times asking me when I'm going to talk about it so they can record it. This network hasn't cared one whit about any of the outrageous assassination threats that George Bush gets from members of the left. They don't care. It's so patently obvious. I knew they're going to be listening, that's why I keep saying, "The mainstream media does not set the agenda of this show!"
If you want to find out what I think, report what I think, not what you care about what I think on your interest, but if you want to report on this program, actually report what happens here. But don't think you can call here and set up a premise where I'm going to fall into your trap to help you try to condemn the entire conservative movement. The jig's up! It ain't going to happen anymore -- and if I did say something about it, it would just be to tweak them, where they wouldn't understand it and they'd report it and it would be cast as the absolute worst thing in the world that had ever been said. (ahem)
In fact, I'll tell you what it is in this context. I was talking to guys around here, and I was telling everybody, three different inquiries, and they all want to know what I was going to say about Pat Robertson. I said, "You know what it is…?" In fact before this even happened I got an e-mail from friend today who said, "This Robertson stuff is just unfortunate because you know the mainstream press is going to try to link you with it."
I'm not kidding: five minutes after I get his e-mail is when I get the first inquiry about this! So, H.R. down here today and Snerdley in there, and I said, "You know what would be fun to say?"
They said, "Don't say it! Don't say it! Even if you put it in total context, it will be misreported and they won't report your context, and they'll report as though you actually said it."
I said, "Well, I will have actually said it but in the guise of tweaking them." You think I should say it or not? Snerdley thinks (interruption) Now you think I should? Okay. Here's what I was toying with, because I knew -- and it still may happen. Let's see if it happens. Let's see if what I'm about to say to you ends up being reported as, "and Rush Limbaugh weighed in on the Pat Robertson controversy yesterday by saying," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, let me say at the outset, I am not weighing in on the Pat Robertson controversy. That's not what this is about. I am tweaking the mainstream press, desperately hoping I criticize Robertson so that they can lump me with him and all of us with him to try to discredit the whole of the conservative movement and so what I would say that we were toying around with here:
Well, Pat, why did you not include Castro?
he probably meant CNN. they were obsessed with Pat all day long, even on their "entertainment" shows.
I do find it unfortunate that a " man of the cloth or Clergy " had to say something, that our government lacks the responsibility to do to protect our country from unstable and dangerous dictators as Chavez.
hehehehehehehe
:)
"Robertson was dead serious" AND YOUR POINT IS?
No, but he is sitting on really good cigars, on plants confiscated illegally when he took control of Cuba, and rumor is he's supplying personnel for biological weapons.
That's about the best 30 minutes of radio commentary I have ever heard. You're right. Rush was absolutely brilliant today.
My point is that it's not analogous to compare this to a couple of bad comedy routines.
Way back when, Robertson was used as a rallying cry the way Limbaugh, Bush, Delay etc...are today, only it was more effective with Robertson. Just as the Left still lives in the '60's, they still live in the day when Robertson was pivotal in some politically influential circles so they think this is big news that will hurt conservatives. They especially wish to destroy the credibility of "social conservatives". Their belief is that the citizenry will react in horror at the 'extremist religious right' and run back to their arms.
No dice. Robertson's biggest days have passed and he's, well, he hasn't cut ties the way Pat Buchanon did but he certainly strained a few in past years.
It's like dragging out Mondale. His day is long over.
The MSM is making Robertson big news because they really believe he's big news. They don't live in 2005.
SWELL ,Let's take Pat seriously! I'm all 4 it! :)
Did Rumsfeld give them one of his, "Are you stupid?" looks?
"I still see absolutely no difference between Robertson and his comments and an inman's with his. Both use religion for their own perverted disgusting ends of violence and death."
Not saying you're a liberal--but you seem to be co-opting their "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" gobbledygoop with your argument---steadfastly refusing to make any moral distinctions...
Well said.
"The obvious difference is that Kilborn and Baldwin weren't serious."
You're kidding right? Baldwin WAS serious
"My point is that it's not analogous to compare this to a couple of bad comedy routines."
Sorry, wrong again...baldwin's rant was NOT a comedy routine. I remember watching it that night. He was unhinged with pure hatred.
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