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<\/p>\nRUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we talk about the mainstream media on this program a lot. I oftentimes talk in a very celebratory manner about how we busted up the media monopoly. In 1988 when this program started, this was the only national media program that featured an alternative point of view: Conservatism. Everywhere else it was identical.<\/p>\n
It was the same. You had the three networks and you had the big newspapers and the magazines. The only cable network was CNN. Starting in 1988, the success of this program then bred additional radio talk shows — then Fox News, then the blogosphere — to the point their monopoly is gone. They don\u2019t have the monopoly. But they still have, sadly, an incredible amount of power.<\/p>\n
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I think people… Not that you do, but I think there\u2019s some people on our side of the aisle who, because their monopoly\u2019s gone, don\u2019t take quite as seriously as they should the real benefit to Obama of having these people in the tank for him. It\u2019s huge. Well, I\u2019m here to tell you that if this media was in any way what they pretend to be — if they were objective — Obama wouldn\u2019t be anywhere near where he is. Really.<\/p>\n
There are people in this country — and they vote, and there are sizeable number of them — who still only watch the three network nightly newscasts and only read the newspapers. That\u2019s it. They do not avail themselves of the New Media, what I call “partisan media.” I don\u2019t mean that in derogatory way, but we obviously have a point of view here. So I\u2019d call myself “partisan media.” They don\u2019t pay attention to it. Some don\u2019t even know it exists. So I\u2019d call myself partisan media. <\/p>\n
They don\u2019t pay attention to it. Some don\u2019t even know it exists. If they do, they don\u2019t, for whatever reason, want any part of it, or the left either. They think that the Drive-By Media is it, still fair, balanced, the whole thing, and it\u2019s their Bible, and there are a lot of them. And I\u2019m telling you it is a huge advantage for Obama. It\u2019s major. So when something happens there that goes against Obama, it has the potential to be just as huge as all the support, and that\u2019s what this CNN interview is. The CNN interview with the mother of one of slain Americans in Benghazi is a powerful thing, and it\u2019s the kind of thing if it would happen every day — and there\u2019s opportunities for it every day. If this media were not in the tank for Obama and hadn\u2019t been all along, it would be an entirely different world that we live in. It would be an entirely different country. <\/p>\n
I always like to say I\u2019m doing the job they used to do, which is true. You get more sides of an issue presented to you on this show than you do in the mainstream media. But, by the same token, if they weren\u2019t doing what they\u2019re doing, market-wise there wouldn\u2019t be a place for me. So I\u2019m kinda torn. When we come back we\u2019ll start with the audio sound bites of this mother of the slain American, and you realize this thing aired on CNN. That is gonna have far much more impact than if it aired on Fox. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: Folks, this is very hard to listen to. It\u2019s tear-jerking. It\u2019s also gonna make you mad. It\u2019s going to infuriate you. This is last night on Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN. He interviewed Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, computer specialist killed at the US consulate in Benghazi. Anderson Cooper said, “Who told you that they would give you information about Sean\u2019s death?”<\/p>\n
SMITH: Obama told me. Hillary promised me. They promised me. I told them, “Please, tell me what happened, just tell me what happened.” I told them, “Please, don\u2019t give me any baloney that comes through with this political stuff.” And I still don\u2019t know. In fact, today I just heard something more that he died of smoke inhalation. I look at TV and I see bloody handprints on walls thinking, my God, is that my son\u2019s? They haven\u2019t told me anything. They\u2019re still studying it, and the things that they are telling me are just outright lies. That Susan Rice, she talked to me personally, and she said, “This is the way it was, it was because of this film that came out.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: They\u2019re purposely lying to this mother. Their son died because of this movie. Their son did not die because of a movie. He died because of a terror attack that our consulate was not prepared for.<\/a> It\u2019s no more complicated than that. Who is this woman, Pat Smith? She\u2019s an American. Her son is killed in action. She\u2019s a real woman. You know, these people, Obama, Susan Rice, everybody, the political class, the elites, whatever they want, they can have. The House dining room, Senate dining room, get whatever they want, doesn\u2019t cost much. Health care, they don\u2019t have to worry about it. Take an Air Force plane to fly home, Air Force One, what have you. <\/p>\n