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CALLER: Where coal is still America\u2019s ace-in-the-hole.<\/p>\nRUSH: We\u2019re gonna start in Morgantown, West Virginia. This is David. David, it\u2019s great to have you up first today on the program. It\u2019s nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, mega Millennial West Virginia dittos, Rush!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Where coal is still America\u2019s ace-in-the-hole.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And, by the way, it\u2019s coming back. That was from yesterday. The oil industry is coming back. The coal industry is coming back. The steel industry is coming back. Jobs are coming back. There\u2019s all kinds of great news out there that nobody\u2019s hearing about, \u2019cause the Drive-Bys are obsessed with destroying Trump.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir. Hey, my question, Rush, is this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Every single story… Every single story — I don\u2019t care where you hear it, where you read it — there\u2019s always an anonymous unnamed source.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. In many cases, only one.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Not even two or three!<\/p>\n
CALLER: How do we, the public — how does anybody — know that Glenn Thrush, who sends his paperwork for the Clinton campaign for them to check over…? How do we know these reporters aren\u2019t just making it up, dreaming this stuff up just to get at Trump?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I think we know that they are. I think we know that they are. Well, I think one of two things are happening. Either they\u2019re making it up, or people are leaking lies to them that they are publishing because they want the lies to be true.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We know of three instances. We know for a fact that Comey has not asked for more money for the investigation. We know that Rosenstein did not threaten to quit over the White House narrative on how Comey was fired. Yeah! Rosenstein has denied it. He wasn\u2019t threatening to quit. McCabe said that the FBI has not asked for more money, that this is not how they get money. They don\u2019t go to the DOJ and ask for additional money. They come to Congress for their appropriations. There hasn\u2019t been any request.<\/p>\n
And the other thing is that the investigation\u2019s going on. There hasn\u2019t been any attempt by the White House to stop it. There are just three things right there that we\u2019ve been lied to about just this week alone! Grab audio sound bite number four. This is Cokie Roberts on ABC\u2019s Nightline last… (interruption) Well, that\u2019s how she says it, “Co-KEE Raaaah-BERTS, ABC News, Washington.” She said last night… She\u2019s asked a question by the correspondent, David Wright.<\/p>\n
“Would Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have had the same impact in the era of Twitter and so-called fake news?” Now, before you…? Don\u2019t hit the sound bite. Stop and think of that question. These young cub reporters, they love Woodward and Bernstein. You know why? Because they destroyed Nixon! That\u2019s one of the great objectives of journalism: Take out a president of the party you oppose. This guy wants to know if Woodward and Bernstein would have had the same impact in the era of Twitter.<\/p>\n
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And what he\u2019s really asking is, “Could we be Woodward and Bernstein if there\u2019s Twitter? Woodward and Bernstein didn\u2019t have Twitter to compete with, but now there\u2019s Twitter to compete with! Could we become Woodward and Bernstein with Twitter?” He\u2019s asking Cokie Roberts. “Could Woodward and Bernstein have been what they have been if there was so much fake news then like there is now?” The guy wants to be Woodward and Bernstein but there are too many competitors out there. And here is the answer that we got from Cokie Roberts, ABC News.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: We know there\u2019s no such thing as fake news. We live in a time when people don\u2019t believe facts — and if we can\u2019t, uh, convince people that facts are facts, that\u2019s a very difficult situation.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You heard her say it. “We know there\u2019s no such thing as fake news.” I\u2019m holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from February 14, 1994. (shuffling paper) Many of you will not remember this. “ABC World News Tonight executive producer Rick Kaplan and correspondent Cokie Roberts received an official reprimand for staging a Capitol Hill news report on Jan. 26.” Cokie Roberts says, “[T]here\u2019s no such thing as fake news.” Yet she staged an entire report!<\/p>\n
It was really cold on January 26th in Washington — really, really cold — and Cokie Roberts didn\u2019t want to go outside. So they created a set in the ABC broadcast studios on DeSales Street in Washington, D.C., to make it look like she was standing outside at the Capitol Building when she was in the warmth of the ABC broadcast studios. “In a memo distributed throughout the news division, ABC News senior VP Richard C. Wald called the incident ‘a mistake,\u2019 adding:<\/p>\n
“‘Even though it had no editorial effect, the action was serious because it misled our audience. A series of ill-considered actions resulted in the deception.'” Cokie Roberts says there\u2019s no such thing as fake news. Mr. Wald, ABC News senior VP, “also wrote in the memo, ‘The people involved bear responsibility for this incident. They have been reprimanded and have expressed regrets to me. They know this is not acceptable conduct. This statement is being sent to everyone on our staff so it does not happen again.'”<\/p>\n
Here are the details: “The incident … occurred the day after President Clinton\u2019s State of the Union” Show in 1994. “Kaplan had wanted Roberts to do a live report, including crosstalk with ABC anchorman Peter Jennings, from the Hill. But Roberts had a speaking engagement that evening and didn\u2019t have time to make the trip across town. Kaplan then instructed her to put on her [official journalist trench] coat and do the report from the ABC News Washington bureau in front of a projection of the Capitol Building, leaving viewers with the impression that she was” there and reporting from on the scene.<\/p>\n
“According to ABC News insiders, Roberts knew she had made a serious error in judgment right after the report and regretted going along with the gambit.” Yeah, it\u2019s somebody else\u2019s fault! She had a meeting; she didn\u2019t want to go to Capitol Hill. She had an engagement and somebody made her stay in the studio. “On Friday, Roberts and Kaplan released a statement saying that faking the background for the report was ‘a stupid thing to have done.'” Play audio sound bite number four again.<\/p>\n