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?
LOL Ain't dat da troot!
Yes, he was. He didn't get bowled over like a lot of the folks on here did. But it has given them a wonderful opportunity to do their favorite thing, which is to liken Christians to Islamofascists.
Christianity (from the eyes of Pat) = kill those who disagree with US interests?
OK, when Chavez has his head sawed off with a knife for the whole world to see by lunatic Christians who say they did it because Pat Robertson told them to, THEN I'll grant you your point.
Otherwise, drop the childish equivalency routine.
We have launched attacks that could have killed many foreign leaders (Saddam, Kaddafi, Milosevic and others), nobody has ever complained about those. Robertson offered an opinion about ending the regime of a maniacal dictator, the left is upset because Chavez is one of their new "pets," just like Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Ortega and Gueverra have been and/or still are.
I always thought there was something untoward about him, but I didn't know about any suspicious dealings... I guess sometimes the gut feeling is the right one.
On this issue, I agree with Pat Robertson because he makes complete sense. Religion has nothing to do with it. Besides, I usually support an American point of view, before a foreign point of view. Hugo Chavez is definitely not on my list of people who I'm willing to defend. Under any set of circumstances. Know what I mean? LOL
Thanks for posting this.
In context though, how many lives would have been saved had Hitler been killed or Pol Pot or Stalin.
Glad to see Rush not giving the MSM their evening soundbite. As always, Rush is right. I wonder who was the network that called him 3 times. Probably CNN.
Great point!!!!!!!
I think we are in general agreement on the Robertson remarks. I've only been defending him for ths last 18 hours.
Pat Roberson is an embarassment - always has been.
Post #14 well-said.
Did you ever wonder why even liberal presidents like Carter and Clinton never normalized relations with Cuba in all these years?
It's not because of the Cuban-American voters.
Castro had JFK assassinated.............and it's been kept secret ever since.
If the American people had been told the truth from day 1, they would have demanded retribution against Cuba.......but the Soviet presence kept Castro safe.
Now the truth still can't be released because it would reveal the secret-keepers of the past to be exactly what they were........appeasing cowards.
That has always been my opinion.
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