{"id":17408,"date":"2011-11-14T17:16:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-14T17:16:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T17:16:45","slug":"cnn_s_dan_lothian_displays_bold_bias_in_question_to_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/11\/14\/cnn_s_dan_lothian_displays_bold_bias_in_question_to_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Dan Lothian Displays Bold Bias in Question to Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Cookie sends me the sound bite roster MSNBC-free. There\u2019s no MSNBC sound bites. I\u2019ve been telling everybody for the past week if it weren\u2019t for MSNBC, we would not have any liberal sound bites. So I guess Cookie took that as a personal challenge. She\u2019s gone out there and she has found liberal sound bites that don\u2019t have anything to do with MSNBC. I knew it could be done.<\/line>(interruption) Snerdley\u2019s in there whining, “I like the MSNBC stuff.” I, frankly, to be honest, get sick and tired of telling everybody, “Okay, let\u2019s see, so-and-so\u2019s on MSNBC.” I get so sick of saying “It\u2019s on MSNBC last night.” Finally it struck me, that\u2019s the only place liberals go. CNN, they don\u2019t even need guests.<\/line><\/p>\n

Bernie Goldberg sent me a note today and warned me about this, told me about this. It\u2019s Dan Lothian, it\u2019s number nine, grab audio sound bite number nine. I want you to listen to this question. This is Dan Lothian at an Obama press conference last night in Honolulu.<\/p>\n

<\/a>LOTHIAN: Last night at the, uh, Republican debate, some of the, uhhh, hopefuls — they hope to get your job. They defended the practice of waterboarding which is a practice that you banned in 2009. Herman Cain said, quote, “I don\u2019t see that as torture.” Michele Bachmann said that it\u2019s, quote, “very effective.” So I\u2019m wondering if you think that they\u2019re uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a mainstream media guy asking the president of the United States: Do you think that these Republicans in a debate are “uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible.” Folks, this is a more profound example of media bias than you\u2019re ever going to hear. This is the reporter sucking up to Obama; and Obama, I think, recognized what a suck-up question it was. This question even embarrassed Obama, because here\u2019s Obama\u2019s answer.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: That\u2019s a multiple choice question, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

WOMAN: (cackling)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Uh, let me just say this: They\u2019re wrong. Waterboarding is torture.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think Obama may have wanted the question. I think the way Obama answered that said, “Oh, jeez. I don\u2019t need the bias to be this obvious, for crying out loud: ‘[A]re they uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?'” I watched that debate. Did you watch the debate Saturday night, Snerdley? (interruption) I did, quite by accident. I was surfing around and there it is. I missed the first 17 minutes of it. I said, “Oh, my gosh, there\u2019s a Republican debate on!” I hit the record button about 17 minutes late. But I saw this waterboarding question and the whole time I\u2019m saying, “Do none of you Republicans know? Khalid Sheikh Mohammed! Khalid Sheikh Mohammed! Khalid Sheikh Mohammed! It worked!”<\/p>\n

It worked! It\u2019s how we found out everything that happened. It\u2019s how we caught some of the bad guys. It worked. I\u2019ve become… I tell you, folks, I\u2019ve been struggling for a way to say this. Not that it\u2019s difficult to say. I\u2019ve been struggling for a smart way to say, put into words the reaction I have. Like this Lothian guy. I watch liberals in the media, and I don\u2019t care what the subject. Be it feminism or what\u2019s happening at Penn State<\/a> or the discussion at the Republican debate on waterboarding. I don\u2019t think that these people actually know what the conservative position on things is. I don\u2019t think they do. I think they are that uninformed or ignorant or what have you, purposely. I don\u2019t think they have the slightest idea. I think whatever they think conservatism is is just a cliche after cliche after cliche. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea what it really is.<\/p>\n

As such, they genuinely are shocked when they hear a rational conservative explanation of something. ‘Cause they don\u2019t know what it is. It doesn\u2019t interest them; they think it\u2019s all kookery object what have you. But this question, is it “uninformed, out of touch or irresponsible.” It worked! It\u2019s credited. It\u2019s credited for Khalid Sheik Mohammed! It is credited for understanding what we know about 9\/11 — who planned it, what their objective was, where they planned it, the people involved. It\u2019s how we caught them. It prevented more. Right, it prevented more. It prevented more acts like of terrorism. I don\u2019t think they know. All they know is that whoever did it, whoever conducted the waterboarding ought to be put in jail — and that\u2019s what they want Obama to do.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Back on May 4th of this year, Tony Harnden of the UK Telegraph had the story: “Leon Panetta, the CIA director, has confirmed that controversial ‘enhanced interrogation techniques\u2019 such as waterboarding yielded some of the intelligence information that ultimately led to Osama bin Laden.” Waterboarding enabled Obama to say he got Osama — and I remember Panetta, the CIA director at the time, admitting it. Now, these people, like Dan Lothian, I really don\u2019t think they even know what can… It\u2019s not that they understand it or have had it explained and they\u2019ve rejected it. They have rejected it without knowing what it is. I mean, conservatism.<\/line><\/p>\n

The cliches of the day, the absolute simplistic left-wing cliches become SOP (standard operating procedure), become the template, the narrative of the day without question. They\u2019re idiotic, and it makes people who believe them blindly look like ill-educated, uneducated, or what have you, uncurious — and yet these are the smartest and brightest among us by reputation supposedly, journalists. They\u2019re blockheads. They\u2019re really blockheads. They don\u2019t know anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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