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RUSH: Yesterday on a progressive talk station in Los Angeles a Hispanic host, guy name Mario, is talking to Bill Clinton on the phone, and the host says, ‘Is it time for some type of enforced media accountability?\u2019<\/p>\n

CLINTON: We either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side, because essentially there\u2019s always been a lot of big money to support the right-wing talk shows, and let\u2019s face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining, even when he\u2019s saying things that I think are ridiculous. I never minded having somebody be heard who disagreed with me. But if you only have one side like this blatant drumbeat against the stimulus program, this doesn\u2019t reflect the economic reality we\u2019re facing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now, this is not accidental. This appears to be coincidental. Go on a leftist host show and here comes the question do we need some type of enforced media accountability. Has this nerd never heard of the First Amendment? That\u2019s constitutionally not permitted! Enforced media accountability is not permitted by the US Constitution. But it\u2019s not just coincidental that Clinton shows up and has this question asked, and has this answer. Here\u2019s a former president now in favor of the Fairness Doctrine. We\u2019ve had members of Congress, from Dick Durbin, to Tom Harkin, Maurice Hinchey, they\u2019re getting ready to do something. They won\u2019t call it Fairness Doctrine, they\u2019ll go at it in a much more stealth way, but they\u2019re only going to go after a certain element of media, and that\u2019s conservatives on talk radio. They will not go after any other media platform. They won\u2019t go after blogs — well, they may, but that\u2019s going to be more problematic for them. But they\u2019re not going to go after television, they won\u2019t go after newspapers \u2019cause they are considered ‘the press,\u2019 and ‘the press\u2019 is mentioned in the First Amendment. We of course are not considered to be part of media. But it\u2019s dead serious. They want to wipe out all dissent. They want to clear the playing field. They don\u2019t want any dissent on the stimulus. (doing Clinton impression) ‘We gotta get rid of this guy, Limbaugh, he\u2019s entertaining, yeah, but to line up against the stimulus package like this, I mean we can\u2019t have that.\u2019 We can\u2019t have that, huh? Let\u2019s go back and listen to his wife April 28th, 2003.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you\u2019re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, we are Americans, and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, aside from the first and maybe second wife similarities there in speech pattern, here is Mrs. Clinton defining patriotism as dissent against a sitting administration, in this case the Bush administration. Now her husband and no doubt Mrs. Clinton want to silence all dissent. They want to shut everybody up and they\u2019re making it look like it\u2019s just some coincidence. (doing Clinton impression) ‘That\u2019s right, Limbaugh was asked that question, what am I gonna say, I gotta be honest about it, but you\u2019re sitting out there and thinking it\u2019s some sort of conspiracy. Well, I think you ought to have your head examined.\u2019 Mr. President we know full well what\u2019s happened, you guys have telegraphed it, you\u2019ve made it plain what your intentions are. I have a plan on this, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, but I, El Rushbo, am not prepared today to divulge the plan other than to say I\u2019m going to confront President Obama directly on this and I\u2019m going to ask him for an answer up or down on what his intentions are regarding enforced media accountability. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s got every one of his big minion supporters out there advocating for it. He publicly has said during last year\u2019s campaign that he\u2019s not focused on it, doesn\u2019t really care about it, he\u2019s not that interested. But of course he provides the leadership here, and I\u2019m not going to ask it on my behalf. I\u2019m going to ask it on behalf of my industry. When I started my program in August of 1988, there were 125 radio stations doing talk radio. Today there are 2,010, 2,020 radio stations doing talk radio. It\u2019s not our fault we have succeeded. It\u2019s to our credit. We\u2019ve done so in the free market. Clinton talks about the big money that accrues, and that\u2019s not fair. Big money accrues to the Super Bowl, Mr. President, big money accrues to American Idol, big money accrued to The West Wing, programs with large audiences that succeed are going to attract, quote, unquote, big money. It\u2019s called business. It\u2019s the whole point. This is a business. There are a lot of radio stations. There are a lot of employees at these radio stations. Radio is a business that is highly regulated by the federal government. <\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s time for those of us in radio to be told flat-out what the intentions of this administration are. There are a lot of jobs that will hinge on this. There is a lot of revenue that will hinge on this. These radio stations are owned by people, they have employees, they have made investments in any number of things in order to have these radio stations on the air, and I don\u2019t think the radio business is going to sit back and let this happen. But there\u2019s a lot of fear out there. JP Morgan Chase and Citibank announced today they\u2019re going to suspend temporarily all home foreclosures until Obama and Geithner come up with their plan. Now, what that means is that they are scared to death, they are literally scared to death of this administration and what they might do and how much they need more federal money. So they go up and they get grilled on Capitol Hill about having to show more compassion to people, so they have suspended temporarily all home foreclosures in lieu of Obama coming up with a plan. I have to think this is what it was like living in the Soviet Union. Remember in the Soviet Union we heard stories of people in their homes that go to their bathrooms and whisper when they wanted to tell each other what they really thought and warn them of what was coming? They were afraid they would be bugged if they were in public rooms in their house? <\/p>\n

Have you noticed as you travel around and congregate with people, have you noticed some people want to whisper more and more to you what they want you to know that they think? They\u2019re afraid of being overheard by somebody, and maybe not it\u2019s an authority that\u2019s going to overhear \u2019em, they just don\u2019t want maybe their average citizen to overhear them and start browbeating and berating them. I notice this wherever I go, more and more people are whispering or talking very quietly about what they want, and it\u2019s really tough for me because, you know, I have trouble hearing when people are speaking normally. But when they start whispering it just frustrates me because I can\u2019t hear what they\u2019re saying. But I\u2019ve noticed it happening more and more, people are just more and more afraid to say what they really think in a number of places. So we\u2019ve got the bank CEOs scared to death. We\u2019ve got one CEO that\u2019s standing up, Jack Pelton at Cessna. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, Bill Clinton has said we gotta have enforced media accountability. ‘All the big money has gone to support right-wing talk shows.\u2019 Mr. President, if I may, all the big money is not in talk radio. It\u2019s all your Library and Massage Parlor. What I wouldn\u2019t give for the amount of money that\u2019s been donated to Bill Clinton and his Library and Massage Parlor! That\u2019s where the big money is in this country. Now, how unhappy can these Democrats be? They\u2019ve got 60 votes in the Senate. They own the House of Representatives. They occupy the White House. They control the media. Just what do they want? Karl Marx said it. You know what ‘peace\u2019 is in Karl Marx\u2019s definition? The absence of opposition to socialism. That is peace. The absence of opposition to a leftist, to a socialist, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re aiming for this is a major transformation of the United States, as Obama promised. Let\u2019s not forget Clinton in 1994, June. He was flying in to dedicate some train station in St. Louis, and he called the morning show in our blowtorch affiliate there, KMOX.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: After I get off the radio today with you, Rush Limbaugh will have three hours to say whatever he wants —<\/p>\n

HOST: Would you like to leave a message?<\/p>\n

CLINTON: — and I won\u2019t have any opportunity to respond. And there\u2019s no truth detector. You won\u2019t get on afterwards and say what was true and what wasn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Isn\u2019t this amazing? That sounds like exactly what I\u2019m saying about the Drive-By Media today. And he had the Drive-By Media totally in his tank, too. That was 1994. They\u2019re writing stories about the power crackling in his tight-fitting jeans as he strolled Catalina Island. We had Nina Burleigh promising a ‘Lewinsky,\u2019 promising a BJ just to thank Clinton for keeping abortion legal. I mean, the press was totally in the tank. It\u2019s not really a new concept for them with Obama. It\u2019s just total now. It\u2019s 100%. Gone is any curiosity. Gone is any attempt to keep people in power, honest. They have aligned themselves with the Democrat Party and the leftist machinery of Obama. Saul Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals number 13: ‘Isolate the target, polarize it, paralyze it.\u2019 Make sure you pick an individual, not a group or a company. It has to be an individual. That\u2019s exactly what they did to Bush. Bush didn\u2019t respond. I do. Nevertheless, this is their attempt going forward.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: One more thing. Bill Clinton knows this. ‘All the big money\u2019s in talk radio.\u2019 What big money? Where does this money come from? All the money in talk radio comes… Do you know where the money in talk radio comes from, Snerdley? Where does…? (interruption) Well, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. Well, you\u2019re getting closer as you keep taking these wild guesses. I asked Snerdley, ‘Where does all this big money in talk radio come from, in any radio?\u2019 He said, ‘From advertisers, from big business, from commerce.\u2019 Yeah. Where does that come from? Where does that money come from? From the audience, exactly right, the people that buy. <\/p>\n

Mr. President, the big money in radio or the big money in Super Bowl or the big money in American Idol or wherever you want to go that there\u2019s big money, in the private sector, the big money comes from our audiences. The big money comes from listeners. Without them there wouldn\u2019t be any money. We don\u2019t run around fundraising. We don\u2019t run around asking for donations. Listeners! Loyal, lovable, totally appreciated listeners who purchase products and services advertised on radio. There is no ‘big money.\u2019 There\u2019s no George Soros here as there is in Air America. There\u2019s no party behind talk radio, as with Air America and the Democrat Party. There\u2019s no big money here at all. There\u2019s certainly not any big money like you got, Mr. President, from the ChiComs and your illegal campaign donations. We in talk radio don\u2019t engage in crooked real estate deals. <\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t bring in people to our studios for coffee and shake \u2019em down, promising not to criticize them on the radio if they will just pay us off. We don\u2019t bring in interns here and start using cigars in nefarious ways. We don\u2019t have massage parties here in our broadcast studios. Well, I can\u2019t speak for some of the long-haired, maggot-infested FM types and what they\u2019re doing in their studios. (laughing) But I haven\u2019t had one visit from a ChiCom advertiser. I haven\u2019t had a guy that owns a Chinese restaurant in Little Rock walk in to some office with $200 million in unsigned money orders for me for big money. I haven\u2019t people from Dubai, from the United Arab Emirates, from Saudi Arabia pay me 150 to $400,000 for a speech ripping my own country while I\u2019m in theirs! I don\u2019t do things like this, Mr. President. My money, our money comes (just as government\u2019s does) from the American people — and our money is puny compared to yours. Clinton Global Initiative? We don\u2019t have anything like that. What big money, Mr. President? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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