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?
Correct. Beyond that, FOX News played the clip from the 700 Club in which Robertson made the quote in question, and just like they do with Rush Limbaugh, the MSM has taken what Robertson said, completely out of context. (as usual)
The MSM plays the imam's comments unedited with translation, while telling us what Robertson said in their own words. Put it in it's proper context, it wasn't as big a deal as the media made it out to be. I've always thought Robertson was a nut, but I have to say, the media made a big deal out of nothing. Most of Robertson's worldwide audience aren't going to take it upon themselves to assassinate some repugnant thug dictator.
"It was amazing Thursday to watch the documents story go from FreeRepublic.com, a bastion of right-wing lunacy, to Drudge to the mainstream media in less than 12 hours," said Jim Jordan, a strategist for independent Democratic groups opposed to Bush, and Kerry's former campaign manager.
"That's not to say the documents didn't deserve examination."But apparently the entire thing was cooked up by a couple of amateurs on Free Republic. The speed with which it moved was breathtaking.
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Could not agree with you more. Looks to me like "Utopia" made a blatantly stupid comment and just looks more foolish with every attempt to defend it. I'm willing to bet that he never read what Robertson said, but rather what other people said about what Robertson said.
Dude give it up...you've been smacked down more times than Steve Austin's opponents.
Making references to killing the president is always serious, my friend.
But there's still a difference between what Kilborn did and what Robertston did. Intent does mean something in cases like this.
Stop speaking in Clintonese, will ya?
I stand corrected.
"And Baldwin said what he said on Saturday Night Live I think. He always looks slightly unhinged."
Wrong, wrong...wrong again. He was on Conan O'Brien, like I said before I was watching it that night and saw him. He "looks" unhinged? No, the manner in which he was SAYING it was unhinged.
The real question is why are you so interested in excusing what this guy said?
" Dude give it up...you've been smacked down more times than Steve Austin's opponents."
These christophobes just cant STFU....they will use any opportunity to bash him.
Pat has about as much standing among Pubbie leaders as Jesse Jackson has among Democratic leaders. Side shows.
Yes Rush is. I posted the same thing yesterday morning.
Yea, what about Castro?
What?!? He has invisible WMDs too? What Chavez thinks of this nation is of, or should be, no concern to anyone. He hasn't attacked our borders and there are no plans that we've seen that he would attack our borders. As a Christian, I am sickened to see so many try to justify what this idiot spouts off on his 'christian' show.
Already conceded that I was wrong about the source. Not excusing what he said at all.
Bingo. Every time that I surfed past CNN they were talking about it. Even Blitzer seemed obsessed. It was so bad that Brit Hume made a comment about CNN's obsession with Robertson on his Special Report last evening.
" "The mainstream media does not set the agenda of this show!"
Nope - it used to be an event-driven show.
Is a Conservative " broadcaster, statesman, author, humanitarian, businessman and Christian." calling for an assassination not an event ?
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