[Yosemitest]

Correcting an error to Ignore the Katrina Media Speech Spin

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RUSH: A lot of you people have been demanding the president come out and defend himself and respond to some of this and, by the way, I think -- this is my own view here -- but I think the president deserves our total support now and needs it. I know that some of you think leadership has been lacking and there hasn't been a lot, but sometimes you don't wait for leaders. Sometimes you become one. The president came out today. He offered people what they wanted to hear him say. It's time now to support him on this, but I just want to warn you. I have been monitoring the big media, this as in big oil. I've been monitoring the big media. By the way, I wonder what their profits are, as opposed to big oil. But anyway, I've been monitoring the big media, and, of course, the big media is taking the three paragraphs from this speech to point out the president's weakness. I've been through this, throughout my career, not to equate myself with the situation. This is a life lesson. I've been through this and I've had scurrilous things said about me in public, and people say (doing impression)
"Rush Limbaugh, I know you're not going to sit there and tolerate that, you've got to fight back!"
And every time I've fought back, the critics,
"A-ha, we must be on to something, you're on defense, you have to defend yourself. If it was no big deal, you'd just ignore it."

The press is saying exactly that about Bush's three paragraphs where he points out that his critics are full of it and that they're hypocrites and that they're lying, because they saw this intelligence, and they said the same things he said. The press:

"He's become derailed, he's now given to responding to his critics. The real purpose of this speech was to respond to his critics. He continues to stay on defense."
I just want to warn you that's what you're going to hear as you keep the big media on, and it's going to frustrate you because you think -- and normal logic would say that somebody responding would force the critics or the people that sat around watching this to examine,
"Okay, the president fought back, he responded, called these people a bunch of liars essentially and said that they're rewriting history."
And of course the people that are doing the rewriting of history are going to try to spin this,
"See, see, we're getting to him, we're taking him off track, we're distracting him, he's responding to us."
You're not going to hear the press say,
"The president vigorously fought back today and told the truth about his--"
You're not going to hear that at all. So don't look for support, don't look for any kind of validation on this from the big media.

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Sorry for the format typo mistake. It took several hours to put this together, ... and there's lots more that I'd like to add. I'm just too tired right now.

[ohioWfan]

Don't apologize. This is TERRIFIC!

Thanks for all your work in putting this together. Rush was fantastic Friday, but the President was fantastic-er. ;)

BIG BUMP!!!!

[Albion Wilde]

Great job, Yosemitest!