Posted on 11/16/2017 4:52:57 PM PST by Kaslin
Now, Little Brian Stelter over at CNN hes their media analyst. Hes the guy that does reports on how well the medias doing for CNN. Hes the Howard Kurtz, if you will, of CNN. And I guess that Brian is upset that I am not taking a leadership position with you in this audience in the effort to get rid of and bury Roy Moore.
Brian is terribly upset that I have fallen back on my identifier as an entertainer and that I am shirking my obvious leadership role. He said this this morning on CNNs New Day. By the way, CNN right now, two more women say Roy Moore made unwanted overtures. And before that, CNN did a half hour forum on tax reform. You cant find the Al Franken story on CNN. Its been there, Ive seen it for scant seconds go by during the morning, but theyre not focusing on it at all. So heres Brian Stelter this morning on CNN worried about me.
STELTER: The cliche that I see a lot of commentators holding on to. Hey, this isnt up to me; its up to the voters. Well, actually people like Rush Limbaugh, like him or not, theyre viewed as leaders in this conservative media world. They are viewed as leaders by people like President Trump. We know that the president takes advice from these voices on the radio and television. So I know theyd prefer to be entertainers, prefer to let the voters decide, but were actually not seeing a lot of leadership from these hosts, from these commentators, which is notable, given that Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders have spoken out. These hosts are accountable every day to their audience. They look at the ratings. They look at the page views. Maybe theyre concerned that they dont know where their audience stands on this issue.
RUSH: Brian, one thing, Brian, of everything here. If you forget everything I say, remember this. I always know where my audience is issue to issue to issue to candidate to candidate to candidate. I always know where my audience is, Brian thats why I am where I am. Plus, Brian, I have an audience to know where they are. Many people dont. Many people think they have an audience but you could put em in a thimble, maybe a phone booth. There arent phone booths anymore, but conjure your memory.
No, seriously. He obviously has been waiting for me to jump on the condemn Roy Moore. And I havent done it sufficiently for these people, so I am abrogating my responsibility. I am falling back on the fact that Im just an entertainer, that I have no business telling you people what to think on this issue, and I have a duty to assume that leadership role and tell you what Brian Stelter and CNN want to hear me say.
Let Me Lead You, Little Brian
Nov 16, 2017
Now, Little Brian Stelter over at CNN hes their media analyst. Hes the guy that does reports on how well the medias doing for CNN. Hes the Howard Kurtz, if you will, of CNN. And I guess that Brian is upset that I am not taking a leadership position with you in this audience in the effort to get rid of and bury Roy Moore.
Brian is terribly upset that I have fallen back on my identifier as an entertainer and that I am shirking my obvious leadership role. He said this this morning on CNNs New Day. By the way, CNN right now, two more women say Roy Moore made unwanted overtures. And before that, CNN did a half hour forum on tax reform. You cant find the Al Franken story on CNN. Its been there, Ive seen it for scant seconds go by during the morning, but theyre not focusing on it at all. So heres Brian Stelter this morning on CNN worried about me.
STELTER: The cliche that I see a lot of commentators holding on to. Hey, this isnt up to me; its up to the voters. Well, actually people like Rush Limbaugh, like him or not, theyre viewed as leaders in this conservative media world. They are viewed as leaders by people like President Trump. We know that the president takes advice from these voices on the radio and television. So I know theyd prefer to be entertainers, prefer to let the voters decide, but were actually not seeing a lot of leadership from these hosts, from these commentators, which is notable, given that Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders have spoken out. These hosts are accountable every day to their audience. They look at the ratings. They look at the page views. Maybe theyre concerned that they dont know where their audience stands on this issue.
RUSH: Brian, one thing, Brian, of everything here. If you forget everything I say, remember this. I always know where my audience is issue to issue to issue to candidate to candidate to candidate. I always know where my audience is, Brian thats why I am where I am. Plus, Brian, I have an audience to know where they are. Many people dont. Many people think they have an audience but you could put em in a thimble, maybe a phone booth. There arent phone booths anymore, but conjure your memory.
No, seriously. He obviously has been waiting for me to jump on the condemn Roy Moore. And I havent done it sufficiently for these people, so I am abrogating my responsibility. I am falling back on the fact that Im just an entertainer, that I have no business telling you people what to think on this issue, and I have a duty to assume that leadership role and tell you what Brian Stelter and CNN want to hear me say.
Hes worried about me. Its compassionate. Okay. You know, Im thinking here, Brian, of what I can do to maybe get back in your not good graces, but at least assume this leadership role. Let me do so in the Franken instance. Let me tell you what you ought to do. Brian, you need to make sure this story doesnt get short shrift at CNN. If you guys hope to get rid of Roy Moore, youre gonna have to focus on Franken and youre gonna have to show that picture and youre going to have to condemn it, youre gonna have to condemn it with no doubts about what youre doing.
Youre going to have to condemn Frankens behavior. You are going to have to universally accept the words of Leeann Tweeden. You are going to have to demand that the Democrats do something about this guy because he poses a great danger to women and the Democrat Party and the objective to win back the White House.
So as leader, as the Mister Big in the vast right-wing conspiracy, Mr. Stelter, what you need to do is to convince the Democrats to throw Franken overboard. The Democrat governor of Minnesota will appoint another Democrat in his place, and you will not miss Franken, and you will not have a hypocrisy problem. You can do it by the end of the week. It will give you and the Democrats cover for anything you can and will and want to keep doing to Roy Moore.
But if you want to keep going after Roy Moore and if you want to then turn your attention to Trump, you have got to throw Al Franken overboard. You have got to convince your friends that Franken is nothing in terms of the overall quest of the Democrat Party. If you defend him, if you in any way try to differentiate what Franken is alleged to have done with Roy Moore or Weinstein or anybody else, you will not be able to sell future attacks on other Republicans that you wish to destroy. There. Hows that?
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: It was a mistrial in the Senator Menendez case, and hes now pontificating about what a wrong case it was, a bad trial, a bad prosecution, FBI out of control. He says (paraphrasing), The FBI just refused to believe that a young Latino kid could ever amount to anything like U.S. senator and be honest. So the FBI was running around asking people, What do you have on Menendez? Give us anything, well take anything you got on Menendez. Mistrial mishmile.
I have a question, ladies and gentlemen. How many Washington Post reporters are now swarming Hollywood and Minnesota looking for decades-old information on Al Franken? Well, theyre all over Alabama. They all got visas and they went into Alabama. They went hunting. Remember like John Kerry, Is this where I get me a huntin license? A bunch of reporters applied for hunting licenses in Alabama.
The Washington Post even ran a robo-call operation asking for dirt on Roy Moore. Theyre denying that, claiming theyre offended anybody would ever think they would run their operation like that. Right. Just how many Washington Post reporters anywhere are swarming Hollywood and Minnesota offering people to come forward with stories about Al Franken? Cause, you know, we have to root out these people like we have to root out Roy Moore and perverts like that. How many of the Drive-By Medias are looking this uh?
Ill tell you what else, though. If what has popped up today about Franken just in a couple of hours, if that keeps popping up, you know, youve got now, what is it, Senator Schumer calls for an ethics probe of Franken, thats a delaying what do you mean, ethics probe? What do we need an ethics probe for? Weve got a picture! Weve got the evidence and we have the woman with the story, and the women do not lie! Well see how this shakes out, but I betcha were gonna hear a lot more stories of Franken cause theyre gonna be plentiful.
Heres Max in Houston. Max, welcome, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I have the opinion that the Democrats are gonna sacrifice Al Franken. Theyre not going to defend him at all. And in fact I think the fact that hes coming out and saying that he should be investigated makes him possibly complicit and I think theyre gonna offer him up as a sacrifice
RUSH: Why?
CALLER: to prove that they are serious about condemning sexual misconduct so that they can burn out Roy Moore and they can use the Saul Alinsky tactic of the freezeout to go after Donald Trump and anything that he stands for.
RUSH: Well, I have to tell you, I suggested to Brian Stelter today when he demanded leadership from me, he says Ive been skating lately on Moore, that I have been relying on the fact Im just an entertainer, hes been demanding leadership.
So I said, Okay, try this for leadership. You people need to throw Franken overboard. Youre not gonna lose the seat. Youve got a Democrat governor, could appoint his replacement. But if you dont throw Franken overboard, how do you continue to go after Moore like you are and how do you go after Trump later on? If you give this guy a pass. If you try to draw any distinction whatsoever and say that what Franken did is nowhere near in Moores league, you guys are gonna be in big, big trouble.
So you would think but theres a big difference in Republicans and Democrats. They do not throw their people overboard except if its the last option.
Franken has ties to the entertainment world.
If the Democrats throw Franken under the bus, the entertainment world won’t be happy.
Just as an aside, I made a LOT of money selling pay telephones back in the day. About $900 a day on average and $20-30,000 on a good day. And that was in the 1980’s.
We need to give Little Brian the Trump treatment too . . .
Alka Stelter
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