Posted on 02/02/2018 1:07:16 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, would you be surprised to learn that many think — not all, but there are some who blame me for being where the country is right now. I’m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a printed copy of a piece in the New York Times from yesterday by a woman by the name of Michelle Goldberg. It is entitled, “Don’t Believe the Liberal FBI.” Don’t let the headline confuse you. This is a prerelease memo piece.
“In the 1960s and 1970s, the American right set about undermining trust in the mainstream media, which it saw as dangerously infected with liberal assumptions. Later, in debates over evolution and the environment, some on the right attacked the validity of modern science. By the turn of the millennium,” i.e., the year 2000, for those of you in Rio Linda. We’re not talking about a Star Wars spaceship. “By the turn of the millennium, it was an article of faith among conservative ideologues that whole realms of human expertise were in fact intricate structures of propaganda that trapped the unwary in a matrix of deceit.”
In other words, starting in the sixties and seventies, we on the right began lying about everything — science, the environment, the media — and by the time we got to 2000, it’d become “an article of faith among conservative ideologues that whole realms of human expertise were” a bunch of BS. Next paragraph: “In an invaluable,” in an important…” Don’t you love the way intellectuals write about each other? The indispensable such-and-such! The invaluable such-and-such! The irreplaceable such-and-such!
“In an invaluable 2017 Vox essay titled ‘Donald Trump and the Rise of Tribal Epistemology,’ David Roberts quoted a 2009 Rush Limbaugh [remark]: ‘Science has been corrupted.'” This is a quote; It’s accurate, I think. “‘Science has been corrupted. We know the media has been corrupted for a long time. Academia has been corrupted. None of what they do is real. It’s all lies!'” close quote. Next sentence by Michelle Goldberg: “With Trump, this ethos [of Rush Limbaugh] reached the White House. And now, to protect Trump, the right has expanded its war on empiricism to that most conservative of institutions, the FBI.”
So it is my fault that the Trumpster is in the White House, because in her view, I set the table for making a campaign like his appeal to a majority of Americans. And, by the way, if you don’t know what this word is — “the right has expanded its war on empiricism” — the root there is empirical truth, empirical evidence. Meaning not anecdotal, but scientific, unarguable, ontologically certitude, evidence. I helped corrupt the certainty of environment news, the certainty of evolutionary news, the certainty of a free-and-open media, blah, blah, blah. It’s my fault, folks! It had to happen sometime amidst all of this.
Rush’s real impact will be judged by history. Am pretty sure it will be favorable....and then some.
I read that excerpt, and...anyone who uses phrases like “war on empiricism” and “Tribal Epistemology” should be put into the same bin as people who use words like “cisgender”.
Pretty easy to see that right off the bat.
Where does Obama fit into spying on Trump? Remember he ask all these Russians to leave the country, to cover-up something? Was he pretending something was wrong with Russian relationships? The media became useful tools for Obama and Hillary. Now, the media can not turn back, it would be admitting they were part of Democratic Party network to cover-up the truth.
Scientific, unarguable, ontological evidence ...
XX = female
XY = male
One thing I noticed about the MSM covering the RICO conspiracy... they bent over so for backwards that they could kiss their own butts... to avoid saying THAT HILLARY FINANCED THE PHONY DOSSIER USING AN ATTORNEY TO LAUNDER THE MONEY THROUGH THE DNC.
SO LITERALLY THE SMELLY, UNINDICTED CRIMINAL,UGLY FAT COW IS THE LEADER OF THE HISTORIC RICO CONSPIRACY.
The MSM couldn't bring themselves to include that tiny detail...
By the turn of the millennium,” i.e., the year 2000,
Actually; 2000 was the LAST year of the second thousand years (for those that have no clue as to what a 'millennium' is.)
January 1st 2001 was the start of the third one
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