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He certainly rips a strip off of Newsweak.

Yes, Rush was really on a roll yesterday! He came right to the edge of adopting the philosophy on Objective Journalism^TM which my #7 reflects, and which I've been developing since 9/11/01 in the ongoing thread,
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
The transcript referenced by this thread will become "subscription only" around 6PM today when today's transcript goes up, right? I read the whole transcript, and it was very good as spoken English but not tightly structured as written English. That's natural, that is life. In the same way that it's natural for FR postings to have typos in them sometimes, even tho we do edit them. It's informal. But I read the whole transcript, and it defied easy summarization.
In a different part of his program he referenced a NY Times writer (Friedman?) who said that the MSM had become a political party. And that is my take, exactly. It's not a problem that a given newspaper has a political perspective, that's what the First Amendment protects. And that is exactly what the founders of the Republic actually engaged in - Hamilton and Jefferson waged their political contests in newspapers which they sponsored. In a very real sense those newspapers were the vanguard of political parties (which the framers of the Constitution had actually hoped to avoid).
But, as I noted in #7, the reality today is that the MSM coheres as a single Establishment, and that is an unfair and virulently tendentious political party. That political party is the actual leadership of the Democratic Party. And that is the real Establishment - the one which put "protesters" on TV during Vietnam in order to mouth the ridiculous notion that "the Establishment" was something which opposed the MSM.
I sincerely hope that McCain-Feingold will prove to be the Gettysburg of the MSM, its high water mark. Feingold is unconstitutional, root and branch, and I hope that it will implode before the next election and be swept away, and perhaps most of the preexisting CFR legislation with it.