{"id":16675,"date":"2012-02-01T18:47:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:47:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-01T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:47:26","slug":"the_new_york_times_turns_on_apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/01\/the_new_york_times_turns_on_apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Turns on Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I know a lot of you get upset and irritated with me when I talk about Apple. So I\u2019m gonna talk about Apple. I wonder how they feel at Apple about now. When the APP store first hit, the mobile iOS APP store for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple made it clear that they were in bed with the New York Times. Even in Apple\u2019s website ads when they would show a display, a website display on one of their computer monitors, it would always be the New York Times. Steve Jobs, in the biography written by Walter Isaacson, I think in that biography, said that he wanted to help the New York Times figure out how to do it right &#8212; i.e., digital New York Times. It was clear that there was a quid pro quo symbiotic relationship, that Jobs, then Apple, loved the New York Times, a great newspaper, wanted to help \u2019em do it better.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1451648537?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1451648537\"><img id=\"eZObject_58724\" class=\"alignleft\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rushiphone4G.jpg\"\/><\/a>In the last three weeks there have been two stories in the New York Times about how basically Apple is responsible for people dying in China putting together iPhones and iPads, sweat labor, child labor. We\u2019ve discussed one of the stories on this program. What has happened as a result of those two stories is that the usual touchy-feely student community has gotten up in arms and is demanding that Apple sign petitions saying that nobody will die in the assembly of iPhones. They\u2019re demanding all kinds of concessions. They\u2019re demanding that Apple be a better corporate citizen. It\u2019s gotta shock \u2019em, because in a political sense their very own community is coming after \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>After all this showering and promotion of the New York Times on everything Apple, here comes the New York Times out with a hit piece, and the reason for it is to help Obama. Yeah, they did wait \u2019til Steve Jobs died to have this reversal take place. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a deep meaning to that, meaning current management\u2019s not so in bed with the New York Times, I don\u2019t know. But still, it\u2019s a 180, it\u2019s a stark difference. All I wanted to tell you was, you know, Apple\u2019s getting beat up \u2019cause they don\u2019t make iPhones in America, and we\u2019ve told you the stories. The factories over there have 230,000 employees. We\u2019ve only got 50 American cities with adult population larger than 230,000.<\/p>\n<p>The company is Foxconn, 230,000 employees, 60,000 live at the factory. The factory has a hospital, a bunch of restaurants. They go through all this pork and rice feeding them every day. They make the equivalent of 17 hours a day. There was a story earlier this week that showed a picture of 3,000 Chinese at an application center hoping to get a job at one of these factories. So, anyway, I just think it\u2019s time for the truth. The only thing that happens with the iPhone in China is it\u2019s put together. It\u2019s where it\u2019s assembled. Apple does employ the brains behind the iPhone in this country. The high paying tech and engineering jobs responsible for the iPhone, the hardware design, the software, all of it happens here in America. The high paid jobs that are responsible for the existence of the iPhone take place here. Those jobs are in America. The assembly jobs are what take place in China.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as though Apple is stiffing America. The fact of the matter is that the best jobs, the high quality, high paying jobs regarding iPhone and iPad and all the other Apple products, the computers, do take place and do exist in the United States. The New York Times has turned on \u2019em, and of course the usual suspects, the know-nothing social do-gooders get all up in arms about human rights abuses and Apple\u2019s killing people. There was a story, they polish the back of the iPad, the aluminum case, they polish it and the dust from the polishing is so fine it can cause explosions and it did at one iPad factory and 63 odd people got injured and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that didn\u2019t sit well, and so the usual do-gooder suspects are out. I just thought it was worth knowing that they used to love each other at Apple and the New York Times and that the quality, high-paying design tech jobs are in this country. So there. (interruption) No. Apple hates me. I\u2019m not doing this for any reason other than I believe in the truth. They despise me at Apple. It\u2019s political. It\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_58723\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rushiphone4G.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: One more thing about this Apple and Foxconn business. Apple is not the only bunch that uses \u2019em. Foxconn makes things for Samsung. They make things for Sharp, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo. They make it all. They assemble all this stuff. Apple is the only one being targeted as company engaging in child labor and killing its employees. Now, why do you think that is? Why do you think it is? (interruption) Well, it\u2019s not just that they\u2019re a number one company. These New York Times hit pieces on Apple are to benefit Obama. So the fact that they\u2019re number one is, &#8220;Yeah, the number one capitalist outfit! Heartless, cold, calculating.&#8221; That\u2019s a big part of it.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also \u2019cause Jobs isn\u2019t there anymore. They wouldn\u2019t do this with Jobs there. I\u2019ll guarantee you. Anyway, Apple is an American success story, and that\u2019s why. An American success story has to be torn apart for the leftist agenda to advance. Apple must be shown to be heartless and corrupt. It must be shown to be this giant, heartless behemoth that doesn\u2019t care for people at all. There\u2019s even a book out now. Some guy at Forbes has written a book. And I don\u2019t know if this is part of a hit piece on Apple, but it\u2019s got some interesting things in it. It\u2019s about how secretive Apple is and how miserable its employees are, how horrible a place it is to work. Because nobody\u2019s trusted. Nobody is allowed to talk about what they\u2019re doing. Nobody\u2019s allowed to go to a different department and see what\u2019s happening there.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very secretive; nobody\u2019s allowed to talk about anything. In fact, new hires are so distrusted, they are put on fake projects for six months just to see if they\u2019re talkers. They are put on projects that have no bearing, they don\u2019t exist, just to see how they behave. Because in the Apple culture of secrecy, that\u2019s how they keep a leg up on their competition. (interruption) &#8220;It\u2019s mean, Snerdley, don\u2019t you understand? It\u2019s mean! It\u2019s mistreating people. They\u2019re heartless and cold and brutal. This is exactly what capitalism is, Snerdley, don\u2019t you understand? It\u2019s exactly that! And that\u2019s why it must not &#8212; must not &#8212; be allowed to happen!&#8221; That\u2019s what\u2019s happening here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I know a lot of you get upset and irritated with me when I talk about Apple. So I\u2019m gonna talk about Apple. I wonder how they feel at Apple about now. 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