Posted on 03/20/2018 1:59:02 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, after that the second narrative is gotta destroy Facebook. Have to destroy Facebook. The Drive-By Media has made it a primary objective to destroy Facebook. Does that bother you at all, Mr. Snerdley? You use Facebook. (interruption) I know a lot of people that do. It might upset them, but its obvious that well, look, if youd let me get there. I know where my syllables are going. You dont need to put thoughts in my mind. I have plenty on my own. Dont need any little helpers here.
As I was saying, the Drive-By Media is targeting Facebook. Facebooks stock values taken a $24 billion hit. I think thats $24 billion with a B is what I see here. It may be million. It sounds like a lot of money. Theyve taken a huge hit to the stock price. But if you look at the irony here, Facebook did everything. This little Zuckerberg did everything the left asked him to do! He turned over his whole database to the Obama campaign. He did everything to get Hillary elected!
But now because a Trump unit found a way to legally use Facebook data, Zuckerberg is considered a traitor because where social media is concerned, folks, the left owns it. Social media, Silicon Valley, is the exclusive property, the exclusive political property of the Democrat Party and the Drive-By Media and the American left. And the rage over the fact that Trumps team, Cambridge Analytica, figured out a way to leverage Facebook data into contributing to their election victory, this angers them almost as much as losing the election!
This constitutes in their minds one of the most outright, egregious thefts that has ever occurred, because Im telling you, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, instant chat, instant whatever, they all are owned by the left. Im not talking about corporate ownership. Im talking about political involvement. The left owns them exclusively. Social media is used to advance liberal ideas and the Democrat Party, and its also used to stifle, to silence, to eliminate conservative voices.
And I cant tell you the degree, the anger that the left felt when they discovered that Trumps group and the Mercers found a way to basically steal what they think is theirs, i.e., Facebook user data, and leverage that into helping their presidential victory just got them so mad they cant see straight. In fact, theyve almost forgotten the Russia collusion thing for a half hour.
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RUSH: Theres a headline here on the Drudge Report, Feds Probe Facebook. Thats a Federal Trade Commission investigation. Already. Folks, Im gonna have to reiterate some things. Facebooks not a victim here. The second headline: Zuckerberg Hides. A Facebook lawyer and somebody else is gonna participate in a meeting with the staff at Facebook to try to explain what went on. I dont even know if leaning in Sheryl Sandberg is gonna show up. You know, shes the CEO. She can do no wrong, by the way. As far as the left, Silicon Valley, high-techs, Sheryl Sandberg can do no wrong. Shes the CEO. Zuckerberg well, I think shes the CEO. Zuckerbergs the founder and he writes code and some stuff in there, buys property in Hawaii, builds walls around it. He went on a listening tour.
Remember that? Zuckerberg went on a listening tour to where cornstalks grow cause hed never seen corn. He wanted to go out and see what people who live among the corn do and he went out to introduce himself. Everybody thought it was a prelude to seeking the presidency. I doubt it now.
But heres the thing about all this. Big Data and Big Government. We dont need any more regulation of Big Data. We dont need any more regulation of Big Data or any of that. What we need is more separation of Big Data and Silicon Valley from Big Government. Thats whats needed here.
Right now social media at the corporate level, the people that run it and the associated companies that feed into it, you know, social media is as big as it is because Apple makes and sells so many iPhones. Samsung comes in way, way back in second place, but without those devices, social media wouldnt have nearly the usage does. So theres a lot of Silicon Valley outfits involved here, and they are all tied at the hip to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They are still tied at the hip to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and they will be tied at the hip to Kamala Harris or whoever is the Democrats nominee for president in 2020.
And thats where we need separation. Mark Zuckerberg is a proud liberal. He has to be. He went to Harvard. He dropped out to further develop Facebook. Its become the largest social media platform in the world. To make it work, to be accepted by those he admires, he must be a proud and public lib. Why isnt he demanding massive regulation of his business? He demands massive regulation of everybody elses business. Thats what libs do, is it not?
Liberals want the government regulating everything. And especially things they dont control, they want more massive regulation. When it comes to things they do own, you dont hear them demanding so much regulation. As far as Mark Zuckerberg is concerned, whoever runs instant chat, Snapchat, Instagram, all virtue lies in government. No virtue lies in the general public. All virtue lies in the government, right? Thats what leftists say. Thats what they believe when it suits them.
According to good liberals like Mark Zuckerberg, government should regulate the entire health care sector. Mark Zuckerbergs right in there with Obama in helping him. And so is Apple. Everybodys all-in helping Barack Obama regulate, administer, and run the entire American health care sector. Why? Well, because they think all virtue resides in liberal controlled government. All virtue relies in liberalism and individual liberals. And so they are happy and proud and eager to have government regulate the entire healthcare sector. And they want the government to regulate banking, consumer finance.
They want the government to regulate student loans. They want the government to regulate cable TV. They want the government to regulate satellite TV. They want the government to regulate student loans and utilities. They want the government to regulate the internet. Thats called net neutrality, ironically enough. They want the government regulating everything.
Well, somebody should ask Mark Zuckerberg why he hasnt invited government to tightly regulate Facebook. I mean, after all, if its okay for the government to regulate the internet and regulate the health care industry and regulate student loans and banking, then why couldnt Facebook be made all that much better if the government, run by libs, was regulating it?
Somebody should ask Zuckerberg why he hasnt invited the government to tightly regulate not just Facebook, but Twitter, since government regulation is the answer to everything. I suspect that Zuckerberg loves the cozy relationship of working behind the scenes, working behind the scenes with Democrats. But he doesnt want a hands-on relationship with bureaucrats. He wants to be above the bureaucratic level. He doesnt want to have to be relegated to the plebes. He wants to deal with the top dog, a cozy relationship with the people that run liberalism and the Democrat Party.
And Im gonna tell you something. Mark Zuckerberg is gonna find himself regretting that he ever tried to get in bed with politicians like Barack Obama. A powerful centralized government run by a bunch of libs believes it owns everything. As in you didnt build that, as in Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama saying to entrepreneurs who built successful businesses (imitating Obama), You didnt build that. You couldnt have done that without us. We built the roads. He with built the toilets. We built the sewer. You didnt do that.
Well, up til now, Mark Zuckerbergs been exempted from you didnt build that cause he was a loyal soldier helping Obama get elected, helping Obamas community organizing do what it wanted to do: Promote Democrat and leftists and screw Republicans and conservatives. And Zuckerberg was a loyal soldier, and still look what theyre doing to him. After all of this loyalty, after everything Zuckerberg did to help Obama and Hillary, now look.
Because Cambridge Analytica found a way to have access to 50 million of Facebooks near one billion users, Zuckerberg is toast. Zuckerberg is an endless, wandering shred of human debris whos no longer useful. And in fact hes gotta be destroyed so as to send a message to anybody else who might think, who might try to let the Republicans use social media to help them get elected.
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RUSH: Yeah. The Facebook stock plunge of $24 billion? Zuckerberg has lost $5 billion in portfolio value since Monday. However, it could have been worse. Zuckerberg sold about $900 million worth of Facebook stock so far this year, and lets see. He sold some late last week. That was fortuitous, but still hes down $5 billion. Facebook is down $24 billion in this plunge. Look at how the left turns on its own with one just one perceived act of disloyalty. Hes gonna wish he never got in bed (figuratively speaking, of course) with Barack Obama, because Obamas government, Hillarys government, the left, they own everything.
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RUSH: I want to get back to this Facebook stuff, because, folks, this is really, really, I think, a teachable moment.
And I think its highly informative, because the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party has turned on Facebook. And its remarkable because Facebook was one of the protected entities. Facebook and Barack Obama, Google and Barack Obama, Facebook and Google and Hillary Clinton and the entire the Democrat Party was a purposeful strategic alignment to promote the perpetual power of the Democrat Party and the American left and using social media to promulgate fake news, to lie about conservative and Republican opponents and groups.
And Im telling you, the fact that Cambridge Analytica, a company associated with the Mercer family that had worked with Trump coming in and literally hijacking what the left has thought was an exclusive province has just angered and enraged them, and they are livid at Zuckerberg for having let it happen. Zuckerberg is on the outs. Facebook is under assault, $24 billion in stock loss.
Now, to protect themselves from fellow leftists, lets talk a little bit about Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey at Twitter and all of their lieutenants, the CEOs at Apple, the executives at some of these other Silicon Valley companies. Even though they are in bed with people like Obama and Hillary, they are still capitalists. They have to publicly profess their support for socialism and dominant liberalism and the people leading it like Obama and Hillary, but what made them rich is capitalism, entrepreneurial capitalism.
Instagram, Snapchat, insta-chat, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. So in order to protect themselves from people like Obama and other leftists who are not crazy about capitalism. These young moguls have publicly professed their love for high taxes. They support massive government regulation of everything but them, as we are seeing now. They are all on board with this climate change, global warming hoax. Whatever they have to do to stay up close and personal and in bed with the liberal ruling hierarchy they will publicly do.
And all the while, they hope they will never become ensnared in the kind of government control they claim to love. They dont want to be regulated. Facebook literally doesnt want to be regulated but now hes caught between rock and a hard place because hes advocating regulation everywhere else. And now with this so-called breach, which it wasnt, all thats happened here is that a Republican group has found a way to leverage Facebook data. So now Zuckerberg is on the outs and the left does not want this happening again. And they want total control over these social media outlets via regulation.
This is exactly the kind of thing Zuckerberg did not want to happen. This is exactly why he did cozy up to all these people. This is a great example of corporate cronyism, corporate socialism, crony liberalism, whatever. You get close to the big dogs so that theyll leave alone when they start regulating everybody else. As long as you stay loyal and advance their cause, youre gonna be protected, but Zuckerberg at the moment is not protected.
Jack Dorsey, Zuckerberg, all these other people hoping they would never become ensnared in the kind of government control that they vote for, that they publicly support and claim to love. They had a ready friend in Barack Obama. Obama could give them political cover. They could provide Obama with information to control election results, to control public opinion, to stifle opposing news. They did all of that, they turned over their entire user database, Twitter, Facebook, in toto, to Barack Obama. And they were prepared to do the same thing to Hillary Clinton.
But because the Republicans found a way to use Facebook data, this cozy relationship is going to end in massive regulation. You can see it. Its in the cards. FTC, Congress, the Senate, they cant wait well, Congress is the House and Senate. But Washington, they cant wait. Theres a race now to regulate Facebook because the Drive-Bys have blown this up into something that it isnt.
So your average, ordinary low-information voter thinks social media is out of control, that everybodys hacking it, their data isnt safe, they have no idea whats really happened here. But there wasnt any hacking. Facebook willingly provided avenues to all of their user data if you paid the price, which Cambridge Analytica did.
Cambridge Analytica is not protected leftists. They are the enemy. So now theyre gonna end up with massive regulation, which is gonna be the end of rapid growth and innovation, when the governments regulating everything they do, and why would government want to regulate Facebook? To deny access by conservatives and Republicans and any other opposition. And thats gonna be the beginning of the end because Facebook needs Republican members. They need conservative members.
But were gonna end up, if Trumps not careful here with the administering of the deep state, were gonna end up with a bunch of brand-new government regulatory control over social media.
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RUSH: This is Martin. Martin in Bell, Florida. Great to have you. Where is Bell, Florida, Martin?
CALLER: Bell is west of Gainesville.
RUSH: Oh, okay.
CALLER: Nice little country spot so Im out here relaxing in the wind and listening to you. But I wanted to touch on Zuckerberg being thrown under the bus. Its just another example in my mind of the nature of the relationship between the liberals and the media. They completely own the media whenever anybody steps out of line. And people that are thoughtful and pay attention and have memories dont have to think very far back to Weinstein and all of the other so-called, you know, perpetrators that they were and they are, but they were allowed to run roughshod and do what they wanted to do however they wanted to for as long as they were the establishment liberals were okay with it.
But once Hillary lost, our girl Friday lost, then they had to change the narrative. And so they vilified and feasted upon their own. And now that this narrative regarding data mining and Facebook has turned against them, they are feasting on their own once again, and it is quite obvious to a thoughtful person exactly how complicit and corrupt the relationship is between the media and the liberal establishment.
RUSH: Well, the media is the liberal establishment. Thats the dirty little secret. But youre right. Like Weinstein. He got away with it, he was promoted, heralded, until he wasnt. Until some woman went public and forced the liberals I mean, the liberals, theyre all out there promoting the feminazis and feminaziism and all this stuff. And then one of their big donors and bundlers, contributors, power brokers, is revealed to be a pig, well, they had to throw him overboard. Theres no way that Weinstein can exist as he is with the Democrats remaining solidly on the side of the feminazis. So Weinstein had to go.
Zuckerberg has to go. But I think theres much more even and youre right about everything you say, this bond that they have. But I think it goes even deeper than that, because people like Zuckerberg, when Facebook is growing and is becoming big, especially at what it does, collecting information on people, which is the primary objective of political organizations and parties, then of course Zuckerberg has to set aside whatever he might really think and sidle up to these people publicly.
And he has to end up endorsing everything theyre for, like massive regulation of the health care industry and the takeover of it and massive regulation of energy cause of climate change and all this, which means massive regulation of his business, if hes to be intellectually honest and pure. But he doesnt really want them regulating his business. But now thats whats gonna happen, all because of a perceived act of disloyalty. And it really is no more complicated.
If youre Obama and make no mistake. Obama remains the king of the hill of all of this. There isnt anybody else. You know, Bidens not got the juice to enforce all this stuff. And Hillary, I mean, theyre finally running away from her like shes the plague. And there isnt anybody else out there. Its still Obama and the people that worked for him who are the enforcers. And as long as Facebook and Twitter are loyal to the Democrat cause, thats fine.
But once something like this happens with the Trump organization coming in and utilizing the same database for the same purposes, i.e., electing Trump and doing damage to the Democrats, they own this stuff. In their minds, they own social media. They own Facebook. This is Obama, Valerie Jarrett, the whole organization, Michelle, they own Facebook, its theirs. Twitter is theirs. And interestingly, Facebook and Twitter are now in the process of eliminating as much participation by conservatives on their websites as they can.
Conservative posts are considered hate speech and Twitter is canceling them. Facebooks doing the same thing. Obama and the Democrats, the American left, the media, whoever, they own Twitter, they own Facebook, they own instant chat, they own Instagram, they own Snapchat, they own Apple, they own I dont think Samsung, thats South Korea. But they own Silicon Valley. Its theirs. Like they own Hollywood. And this is a massive, massive breach of protocol.
So whereas Obama and his team are praised as geniuses, now all of a sudden exactly what they did is being said to be criminal because the Republicans engaged in it. So were witnessing the criminalization, or the ongoing criminalization of conservatism or Republican Partyism or what have you.
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RUSH: Now, remember something about the Weinstein business. They knew about Weinstein for months in fact, years. The New York Times was working a story. NBC had a story on Weinstein (Remember Ronan Farrows?) and they spiked it. They didnt unload on Weinstein until Hillary was no longer a viable candidate, and they dumped Weinstein so as to be able to use sexual misconduct on Trump. Now, another interesting item of distinction here. Cambridge Analytica had to kind of fudge things with Facebook because Facebook would never give data to a Republican candidate or one of his organizations like they happily did for Obama.
And thats why Cambridge Analytica had to construct this, We want you to take a test a psychological test and have your friends take it, and that opened up Facebooks data via the users that Cambridge Analytica used. But when it came to Obama, Facebook happily gave them everything! Now Facebook is screaming in its defense, They lied to us! Cambridge Analytica lied to us! They lied to us! But you can bet they gave Obama and they gave Hillary and any other Democrat who asked whatever data they wanted.
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RUSH: Logan in Charlottesville, Virginia. Im glad you called, sir. Whats up?
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I just wanted to put point out that I think these guys at Twitter, at Facebook, they actually know their analytics better than anyone. What they want is to not be AM radio. They know that the political sphere is dominated by conservatives. I mean, CNN almost wouldnt have responses if it werent for conservative responses. And the liberal responses come from Kardashian tweets. So the conservatives have their own stars, guys like James Woods but also small, uh, people like (unintelligible) that get, you know, tremendous retweets and likes. Um, and, you know, if they dont tamp that down, the conservatives will just take over. And, you know, how many AM radio listeners are liberals versus conservative?
RUSH: Well, I know what youre talking about because I am AM radio. Lets just, you know As Hillary would say, Yknow, lets acknowledge this, and I know what he means. Theyre hell-bent on conservatives not taking over. You know, they cant They havent been able to stop talk radio, and it bugs the hell out of them. They cant compete against it; they cant find a way, and they are hell-bent I know what you mean when you say they dont want Facebook or Twitter to become the equivalent of AM radio, and that is an owned, conservative technology. I wish I had more time to spend on this, but I dont. I have to go.
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RUSH: Bloomberg is reporting that Cambridge Analytica has suspended its CEO, a guy by the name of Nix.
Rush is off by miles on this one.
Never ask a talkshow host to understand Silicon Valley.
Facebook is scared to its core that the world is going to know they have been playing both sides of the fence and even more.
They are up to their eye balls in the Russia coverup.
If the FTC finds out, Facebook is history with legal problems.
I have absolutely ZERO problem with Facebook being regulated.
It’s time for Zuck to reap what he’s been sowing.
I have absolutely ZERO problem with Facebook being regulated.
NObama did it to the coal, Tea Party and so many more organizations that it is time to even the balance and playing field.
Ive said it 1000 times
Fake Book is for WOMEN
to show pictures of them and the kids to their friends
nothing more really
Instagram is the same thing- but for kids
[Facebook is scared to its core that the world is going to know they have been playing both sides of the fence and even more.]
Yep. I couldn’t care less about Facebook. It’s mostly run by leftists, by all appearances.
Smash and grab.
Regulate it, drive stocks down.
Buy cheap or buy it outright.
Lift regulations.
Make millions.
The leftists have taken over social media. Literally taken over.
All of the lower level apparatchiks now run these media operations; not the CEOs, executives, or the shareholders. They have lost control.
It’s all of the little leftist snowflake trolls who run these companies now. They can make or break the company.
And to this day, people still can’t figure out where hitler, mussolini, and stalin found all of their enforcers.
I think he’s right on the money about the left being angry over the way Trump took the thing they “owned” and turned it against them.
He used Saul Alinsky Rules better than they did.
He used social media to communicate with all Americans.
When they whine about how his tweets are “not presidential” they are really angry that he is using their platforms and their tactics to beat them.
He often gave back better than he got and didn’t let them walk all over him.
The left has been walking all over us for so long.
They believe they are entitled to-that it’s their God(or....something)given right to do so and we’re supposed to just lay down and take it and say Thank you may I have another shit sandwich?
That’s adding insult to injury. It enrages them.
Just one more reason I love President Trump.
If you don’t like it, don’t use it.
Only an ignorant moron would have ever assumed for a nanosecond that EVERY SINGLE THING they have ever done on it has been tracked and analyzed in every possible way for both maximizing profit and furthering the agenda of those who own it.
Zuckerberg founded it and has the right to do whatever the hell he wants with every single electron that’ ever passed its gates, unless and until I’m *forced* to use it I simply couldn’t care less.
If I built something similar I’d have a big, hearty F.U. to anyone who dared to opine on anything I did with any of the information, but then I am an actual conservative, not just a nanny-stater with some conservative social positions.
Very happy to see him on that red classic tractor. I just read that the accident and death rate for hobby farmers, specifically these rich kids like him that want the “authentic country life” has skyrocketed.
No roll cages, lots of exposed moving parts, etc.
Keep driving your little red tractor Mark!
Good post. Did you omit the word “not” in there?
Oops. Good catch.
I’m just amazed that anyone, anywhere, with enough cognitive capacity to use a mouse or keyboard would have thought for a second that FB was anything other than a thing to make money, and demographic information is money.
Why should I care if Facebook is regulated? It is just too powerful political tool used mostly by the Democrats.
If Rush gets his way, all conservative voices on the internet will be silenced.
I really don’t Zuckerberg really founded it. It was a CIA tool since the beginning.
The reason you should care, is that anything that regulates the Left will enable regulating the Right. Further, just because something allows regulation of the Left, it does not mean the Left will always be regulated.
What we will see is something like the IRS going after Right leaning organizations, and the Left skating by with no regulation.
Think racism today, and how the Left can exhibit it at will, and the Right gets accused of racism for merely advocating strict enforcement of our immigration laws.
Regulate Facebook to destroy it? I’ll support that!
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