{"id":230991,"date":"2017-04-25T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=230991"},"modified":"2017-04-26T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:14:53","slug":"politico-media-blames-groupthink-for-failing-to-see-trumps-victory-and-hillarys-loss-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/25\/politico-media-blames-groupthink-for-failing-to-see-trumps-victory-and-hillarys-loss-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Media Blames “Groupthink” for Failing to See Trump\u2019s Victory and Hillary\u2019s Loss Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Politico Magazine<\/a>, did you see it today? They\u2019ve got this massive, massive story on why is the media the way it is, and primarily how did they miss the election? How did they miss it? What happened? What is wrong with the media? Why could we not see that Trump was cruising to a victory? Why could we not see that Hillary was cruising to a humiliating defeat?<\/p>\n

\"\"The media loves writing about itself, talking about themselves, so it\u2019s this very introspective piece. You know what come up with? Yeah, they live in a bubble. They live in a bubble. But it\u2019s not the living in a bubble by itself that\u2019s the problem. It\u2019s what\u2019s happening in the bubble.<\/p>\n

Oh, by the way, I should point out, it isn\u2019t bias. No, no, no. No, no, no. The media is telling us, no bias. It\u2019s not that. That\u2019s what the conservatives always say, but it isn\u2019t bias. It\u2019s groupthink. (laughing) Well, what causes the groupthink? A guy points out that his own survey, only 7% of journalists are Republican. The media bubbles are New York, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, maybe a little bit of Chicago. They\u2019re Boston, the Northeastern corridor, and then the Left Coast. And if it\u2019s not there, then journalists don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on in America.<\/p>\n

The only thing they know that\u2019s going on is where they live. And so it makes \u2019em totally innocent, folks, they\u2019re innocent and don\u2019t intend any of this. But it\u2019s like the New York Times, if they publish in New York and in Manhattan then of course they\u2019re gonna reflect the views and the political attitudes of people that live in Manhattan. They\u2019re a national newspaper, they\u2019re supposed to be able, if they don\u2019t agree with it, at least reports what\u2019s happening in Iowa, what\u2019s happening in, by the way, Michigan or Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Why is it that their candidate, why do they lie to themselves that their candidate was cruising for a landslide win and they chalk it all up to groupthink. Groupthink and living in a bubble, meaning they all live together, they all live in the same place. He didn\u2019t say that they all marry each other and they all have affairs with each other and they all live in two or three of the same neighborhoods. They go to the same bars, the same restaurants. Doesn\u2019t mention that. They just live geographically in the same places.<\/p>\n

But they talk about groupthink. It\u2019s not bias. It\u2019s just they don\u2019t have anybody that thinks any differently than they do. How would that even be possible with the way journalism schools churn out mind-numbed robots? It is bias, it\u2019s closed-mindedness, it\u2019s a little bit of prejudice, and it\u2019s a lot, dare I say, of bigotry. But this guy just wants you to know that bias has nothing to do with why the media\u2019s missing all this news. Bias has nothing to do with why. And apparently they\u2019re very, very troubled. They\u2019re very, very worried. How did they miss?<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t miss diddly-squat! I don\u2019t even believe the premise. I think they knew Hillary was in trouble with trying to prop her up. Some of them didn\u2019t. But I\u2019ve read enough here in this Surrendered book a lot of people knew that this campaign was fraudulent. There are a lot of people that knew it was in on borrowed time. There are a lot of people that knew Hillary Clinton was waddling around in quicksand and half of her support staff was, too. There\u2019s a lot of people that knew. What they told themselves was that Trump is such a reprobate, that Trump is such an absolute, just a pig and an animal and a barbarian that there\u2019s no way that our gal could lose to this.<\/p>\n

\"\"It wasn\u2019t journalism that screwed them up. It wasn\u2019t groupthink. It wasn\u2019t living in a bubble. It is in fact their own liberal prejudice and their stubborn refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of anybody or anything that thinks differently than they do. That\u2019s all it is. They can write all these introspective pieces they want and they can wring their hands and they can worry about how they missed it. And it\u2019s not gonna change a thing.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t going to be a single thing change, other than if they\u2019re able to do it, wipe out Fox News. That\u2019s the only thing. There won\u2019t be any structural change or content change anywhere at the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, LA Times, USA Today, there won\u2019t be any change. And this hand wringing of, “How did we miss it?” there might be some in the group that literally were taken by total surprise, but I think most of them were just in denial.<\/p>\n

I think all these media people, I don\u2019t think they know 10% of what they think they know. I think they\u2019re some of the most closed-minded, uncurious, prejudicial people that you\u2019ll ever run into in any cross section of society. The journalists in any group of people are gonna be the least informed but the most arrogant. They\u2019re gonna be the least informed but have the biggest condescending personalities.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna be the least informed, and they\u2019re not open to what they don\u2019t know. That is a very, very bad personal characteristic. It\u2019s very important, if you want to be a well-rounded, successful person, you have to know what you don\u2019t know. They won\u2019t admit that there\u2019s anything they don\u2019t know worth knowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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