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RUSH: I\u2019ve said this myself to the people trying to call here worried about media. Look, Ronald Reagan won two landslides. George W. Bush won twice. Republicans won the House in 1994 . George H. W. Bush won the White House 1988. There\u2019s all kind of evidence that the Drive-Bys can be overcome, although I think the Drive-Bys are at a more fevered pitch than ever before. They realize now that there\u2019s a divided media just like there\u2019s a divided country, and they\u2019re a business like anybody else, and they\u2019re going further and further left to serve their audience. As such, they are drifting further and further away from legitimate journalism. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always made the point: don\u2019t be that depressed about it. But then again I find myself questioning it. I have a Zogby poll here. We knew what was in the poll, but the number is still staggering. Now, the headline of this: ‘Zogby Poll<\/a>: Voters Believe Media Bias is Very Real,\u2019 and not the American people here, American voters, <\/emphasize>a different number than that of the entire population. &ldquo;The vast majority of American voters believe media bias is alive and well &ndash; 83% of likely voters said the media is biased in one direction or another, while just 11% believe the media doesn\u2019t take political sides, a recent IPDI\/Zogby Interactive poll shows. The Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet is based at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Nearly two-thirds of those online respondents who detected bias in the media (64%) said the media leans left, while slightly more than a quarter of respondents (28%) said they see a conservative bias on their TV sets and in their column inches. The survey, which focuses on perceptions of the &lsquo;old\u2019 and &lsquo;new\u2019 media, will be released today at the PoliticsOnline Conference 2007 at GWU. It is also featured in the March issue of Zogby\u2019s Real America newsletter.&rdquo;<\/p>\n

Now, we knew that a lot of people knew there was media bias, but 83%? This is of likely voters. I find myself being dubious about all this, because if this is true then how the hell do you have so many dupes in this country buying the global warming hoax? I think there are psychological reasons for that. You have all the ingredients there to just melt people\u2019s hearts — polar bears and all this other rotgut. I don\u2019t want to be repetitive on this, but I see conflicting evidence. For example, if 83% believe the media is biased one way or the other and almost 65% think it\u2019s biased to the left, then why would they believe anything the left says or the media says? Clearly they do sometimes. So it\u2019s still a dilemma out there, folks. I do think that the media is getting more competitive — wrong word. They\u2019re getting angrier. <\/emphasize>They don\u2019t have the monopoly they used to have. As I say, it took Walter Cronkite one day to end the Vietnam War to convince the American people it was hopeless. It took the Drive-Bys four years to accomplish the same thing with the Iraq war, and they still haven\u2019t really pulled it off because despite what the polling data is, the American people do not want to de-fund it or pull out of there without a victory. But you would never know that watching the rest of the media.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tom in Waterloo, Iowa. He\u2019s been on hold for over two hours. Tom, welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you once again. I\u2019ve talked to you one other time, and it is a true honor. Listening to you every day just makes me want to be a better American, and that\u2019s why I continue to do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I had a question I wanted to ask you, and I wanted your take on whether you think this is a trend or something that\u2019s going on out there. I noticed, like just especially in the last few weeks, you see things happening that normally would shock me if I would see it go on within the media or the scope of what\u2019s happening politically out there — things like the New York Times slapping Algore down. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, ah, ah. Let\u2019s go one by one and I\u2019ll explain this to you. Because I understand, you think: Is there a trend here of liberals and Democrats cracking up? <\/emphasize><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. In the case of Algore being ripped and his movie being ripped — the Inconvenient Truth being ripped — by the New York Times, I give you a possibility here. Possibly the Clintons are behind this story to make sure Gore doesn\u2019t get any notions about getting in the presidential race. There\u2019s always something possible behind the scenes and between the lines.<\/p>\n

CALLER: One question, though, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dan Rather (sic–Ted Koppel) on the news talking in a different way than I\u2019ve ever seen, especially coming from Dan Rather about the Iraq war. I mean, you see things that are pillars of liberalism.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait. Dan Rather or Ted Koppel?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I\u2019m sorry. Yeah, I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah. To see Dan Rather, you have to have the HDNet, and then you have to watch the HDNet to see Dan Rather.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you have HDNet on your TV?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I do, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you watch Rather on it, Dan Rather Reports?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, every now and then I just flip over.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do. I scan around. I watch HD. I haven\u2019t watched the whole report. He has been doing some Iraq stuff. Okay, keep going with your examples.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, another example. We saw an excerpt in the media of representatives in Washington DC, shouting down liberal activists in the back hallways, and I\u2019m just wondering, is this a trend? Is this something? Are we seeing liberalism kind of being sort of pushed out of the eye? At a time when Democrats are normally moving to the left to gain support in primaries, we\u2019re seeing pieces in the media of liberalism being pushed back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t look at it that way. All these examples that you\u2019ve cited are accurate, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. I think that the Democratic Party is simply fractious. It\u2019s not monolithic. It never has been. It\u2019s always been comprised of various coalitions: Big Labor, the feminazis, teachers unions and so forth and so on, the civil rights coalitions. The fringe kooks, the people out there called the netroots, the nut<\/emphasize>roots, the blogosphere, they\u2019re really unhappy that the party is not left enough, and they\u2019re trying to takes it that way, and that\u2019s the example you cited about David Obey. <\/p>\n

You know, these people believed the Democrats when they said after the election, &ldquo;We\u2019re going to get you out of Iraq. We\u2019re going to get these troops and going to bring \u2019em home.&rdquo; The left wants \u2019em out of now. <\/emphasize>They want them out now. Obey simply got frustrated. They\u2019re protesting him and they\u2019re protesting Pelosi, and he says, &ldquo;You people don\u2019t understand how this stuff works.&rdquo; They\u2019re creating their own monster by feeding it, but they need every coalition in order to win elections. If the nutroots flee, they\u2019ll find their own wacko candidate like a Ned (What was his name in Connecticut?) and go down in flames. They\u2019re trying to stay unified. It\u2019s getting frustrating for them. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s total unity there. I don\u2019t think it represents a crackup. You could say that about the different factions in the House and the arguments they\u2019re having over how to get out of Iraq and how soon to do it and so forth. I\u2019m way over time in this segment. I\u2019d love to discuss this in greater detail, and we will as other programs unfolds. It\u2019s a great question. I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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