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RUSH: Not only am I the Man Who Runs America — you know it and I know it — I am now the man who has changed America, and as far as liberals are concerned, I have ruined it. I have ruined it for them. Liberals loved it, ladies and gentlemen, back in the old days, prior to 1988, 1990, when the Republicans had 135 geriatrics as members of the House of Representatives led by Bob Michel. The Democrats and the liberals loved it when Michel, half the time, didn\u2019t even show up. Whatever the Democrats wanted, they got, sometimes the Republicans weren\u2019t even let into committee meetings. No big deal, just go play golf, it was cool. There was no real opposition. Whatever the left wanted, they got. Those days are over, and they still do not know how to deal with it. You\u2019ve heard this monologue many times on how the left had their media monopoly and they had monopolies in many other things in politics. Those monopolies have been busted. They now have to work for what they want, and they hate that. They despise it! They have power as a birthright. They shouldn\u2019t have to fight for it. They shouldn\u2019t have to convince you to vote for them. It should just happen, and it doesn\u2019t any longer. <\/p>\n

This most recent manifestation I am holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It is from Variety [the entertainment industry trade publication] and it\u2019s by Brian Lowry. The headline of the story: ‘Strike Fight Rages on in a Bubble.\u2019 This is about the writers strike, the Writers Guild of America, the Hollywood writers strike. The last time there was one of the things it was 1988, and it was long. But it eventually got settled. I\u2019m not going to read the whole piece to you. Let me read to you just a couple of relevant paragraphs. ‘Amid the emotions surrounding the writers strike has been vitriol from some scribes toward any news outlet failing to echo their position — a ‘blame the messenger\u2019 attitude vented at coverage by Variety, among others.\u2019 See, right here is the truth. These scribes are upset that news outlets are not just following along against management, promoting the labor side of an issue like they always used to. <\/p>\n

‘Scanning message boards and blogs uncovers all manner of allegations about kowtowing to corporate interests. … In this way, strike rhetoric is oddly mirroring modern politics, where partisans now filter straight-ahead reporting through an ‘us vs. them\u2019 prism, seeking out accounts that buttress their views while shunning those that might challenge them. This represents a relatively recent dynamic, fueled by the Rush Limbaugh era of talkradio, cable news and the Internet, which barely existed during the last strike in 1988.\u2019 That happens to be the year this program debuted. ‘It\u2019s an especially poisonous environment,\u2019 the Rush Limbaugh Era, ‘when applied to this fracas, since talent and the studios must eventually reunite once the saber-rattling and marching ends, whereas political combatants (or at least their public mouthpieces) are now locked in a state of perpetual warfare, the better to spice up the give and take on ‘Hannity &amp; Colmes.\u2019 … In political extremes both sides eagerly play the victim, with conservative talk hosts and liberal bloggers self-servingly encouraging hostility toward ‘mainstream\u2019 media while promising — in the same way some websites are pandering to disgruntled writers — the real story the corrupt old traditional media won\u2019t provide.\u2019 The rest of this is sort of hard to decipher. <\/p>\n

The whole premise here is, I must admit, at first when I saw it, I thought, ‘This is absolutely nuts. They\u2019re blaming me for it?\u2019 Then I got to thinking, they may have a point here, as I was just saying. In 1988 and prior years, the left got whatever they wanted. There was no opposition. I mean, there was opposition, they didn\u2019t get everything they wanted, but I mean it was pretty much rubber stamped, what they wanted to do. The way the media covered things was never challenged. What the media covered was never challenged. What they didn\u2019t cover was never challenged. Now all those days are gone, and the left doesn\u2019t know how to deal with it. That\u2019s the reason for the anger in this country and that\u2019s the reason for the partisanship. The anger and the partisanship\u2019s not us. We\u2019re just equal time. We\u2019re just showing a different way. We\u2019re just highlighting different news. We\u2019re quoting people the Drive-Bys won\u2019t quote. We\u2019re actually telling you what liberals say. We play sound bites where you actually hear them say it. <\/p>\n

In the old days, amnesty would have happened. In the old days, the wet DREAM Act would have happened. In the old days, Spitzer would have gotten his driver\u2019s licenses for illegals. That\u2019s why they\u2019re mad. They\u2019re not getting what they want. There is opposition. So there has to be somebody to blame for this. It can\u2019t be them. It can\u2019t be that their ideas stink. It can\u2019t be that their ideas are unattractive. It can\u2019t be that nobody wants what they want done. Can\u2019t be that, their arrogance and elitism will not permit them to accept the fact that their ideas are no good. There has to be somebody to blame. And who is it? It is always me. I didn\u2019t bother printing this out, there\u2019s a climatologist, scientist out at University of Arizona who I highlighted. He\u2019s written a book. He\u2019s somebody that doesn\u2019t go along with the consensus of science. The Arizona newspapers are castigating this guy simply because I highlighted his work and spread his work beyond the university and academic arena in which he worked. Once again, I am to blame. <\/p>\n

So, the way this works here, the reason I am to blame for the writers strike is that because the Rush Limbaugh era has created this perpetual argument that never gets solved, this constant bickering and partisanship, which never ends. It\u2019s infected both sides, and so essentially what we have here is an argument over the issues in the writers strike, and they see no end to this because the fight is what it\u2019s all about now, not the solution. There is a solution to all of this. If you people on the left will just realize how wrong you are, give up. But by the same token, we talk about principles and compromise. Well, when they talk about compromise, they conveniently leave out principle. Come on, you have to compromise, they always say that to us. Now we\u2019re saying it to them. If you won\u2019t compromise, we\u2019re going to beat you. After all, that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do to us. They\u2019re trying to beat us; they\u2019re trying to ruin us; they\u2019re trying to impugn us. <\/p>\n

In the old days we just gave up, we didn\u2019t mount much of a fight because we didn\u2019t have the numbers, we didn\u2019t have the power. Now we have a few more numbers, a little bit more power, and we\u2019re not compromising on our principles. Well, some of us aren\u2019t. It just boils them mad. They\u2019re just enraged. Then they come out with this kind of stuff: Limbaugh responsible for the writers strike. May have a point. There may be some of this, not specifically about the writers strike, but the fact that the Limbaugh era of talk radio, cable news, and the Internet has presented an entirely new paradigm for the left to have to work in. Mr. Snerdley just asked me over the IFB, ‘Is there anybody upset over this writer\u2019s strike?\u2019 It\u2019s an interesting question. Well, the picket line marches are going on, but I don\u2019t see the public marching outside David Letterman\u2019s studio demanding fresh shows. I don\u2019t see people marching outside wherever they do the Jon Stewart show, demanding fresh shows. I don\u2019t see anybody demanding fresh episodes of the stuff that runs at night in prime time. <\/p>\n

Now, some of that stuff\u2019s not gone into reruns yet. But the timing for the writers couldn\u2019t be worse because all the popular series like Grey\u2019s Anatomy, Prison Break, House, they\u2019re doing part of the season in the fall, then quitting for the holidays, resuming the rest in February with no breaks \u2019til the end of the season in May. So reruns were scheduled anyway. A lot of people, on the other hand — this is not going to please the writers — but a lot of people, said, ‘Hey, if the writers are going on strike, that means the crud is not going to be on the air, and we might have an opportunity for some better stuff somewhere down the line.\u2019 Liz Smith even raised my point last Sunday in the New York Post. ‘Wait a minute, how come Letterman and Leno and these guys write their own stuff?\u2019 Why can\u2019t they go on and do their own show? These are talk shows. <\/p>\n

There are no writers here at the EIB Network. What I\u2019ve just said to you has not been written, other than what I read from the non-striking writer at Variety. We have the CBS News division writers threatening to go on strike, too, and what\u2019s going to happen to the reporters? By the way, I love writers. Writers are the heart and soul of things. I actually have a great deal of respect for them, in a movie, series television show, but talk shows, that\u2019s a different thing. Needing 15,000 writers to do a half hour or a an hour talk show, we do three hours of a day here with no writers. Well, no producer here, either. At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, I single-handedly now have upset the equilibrium that the liberals used to have, and they\u2019re striking out and blaming me. It\u2019s gotten to the point now I am responsible for the friction between the screenwriters, the Writers Guild of America, and the producers in Hollywood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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