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RUSH: El Rushbo was all over the media over the weekend. Friday night, PBS, Bill Moyers Journal, he said this about the Fairness Doctrine.<\/line><\/line>MOYERS: Some of you remember the Fairness Doctrine, adopted 60 years ago by the Federal Communications Commission. It said that opposing points of view had to be presented on radio or TV in a way that was honest, equitable and balanced. If not, said the FCC, a station could lose its license. Ronald Reagan abolished the doctrine in 1987, but mention it today, and the Rush Limbaughs of the world still scream like martyrs being stretched on the rack. These people earn millions inciting riots in the public mind. If they were required to be fair they would soon be penniless out on the street, cup in hand.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Remember, he\u2019s one of the brightest guys on the left, and that\u2019s just absurd. That is just insane. Inciting riots in the public mind? Riots in the public mind. ‘If they,\u2019 meaning if I, ‘were required to be fair, I would be penniless\u2019? As though he sits there as a paragon of virtue on fairness? (laughing) We\u2019re watching a literal crackup! We\u2019re watching a literal crackup. You know, I don\u2019t know how long it\u2019s going to go and I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to be completed but when these people get their unbridled power and things still don\u2019t go right… I mean Mr. Moyers, there\u2019s nothing I can do to stop anybody from doing anything. I can\u2019t raise their taxes. I can\u2019t send anybody off to war. I can\u2019t tell them who their doctor is going to be. <\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell them what kind of car they have to drive. I have no power. I have zilch, zero, nada. Riots in the public mind? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dick in Kalamazoo, Michigan, great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m still laughing at An Inconvenient Al. That\u2019s classic. You know, Moyers\u2019 comments really tell what the intellectual elite in this country think of the masses, and he used the term ‘public,\u2019 not just your listeners. And he sounds as if he resents the fact that somehow you\u2019re the only one able to, you know, to produce that ‘riot in the mind,\u2019 and he\u2019d like to do it in the other way. What really bothers me about this is the intellectual elite in this country sits in the White House. Never having made a payroll, he actually thinks he has the ability to rewrite the entire free enterprise system that\u2019s evolved over 200 years and given us a standard of living that\u2019s just raced by every other country on the planet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You talking about Obama there or Moyers? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Moyers first and Obama later —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, Obama second. Well, first as to Moyers. Moyers is simply jealous and frustrated that there is no longer a monopoly of media that he is an exclusive member of. The genie is out of the bottle. The horse is out of the barn. The cat\u2019s in the litter box, whatever the phrase that you want to use is. They used to have a monopoly on what you thought and what you knew and what you were told. And they don\u2019t anymore. They\u2019re spoiled little kids only they\u2019re adults, and since they don\u2019t have that monopoly, the people that have taken it away from them are the focus of their envy and anger. And they are elites. (interruption) Who, Moyers? The program observer is asking me why does Moyers always bring up how much money I earn? It bugs him, too. Look, they\u2019re very protective. Folks, you don\u2019t understand the kind of power these people used to have, and they still have quite a bit, by the way. But it\u2019s not a monopoly anymore. All these people in the news business still wish they could be Walter Cronkite. <\/p>\n

They still wish that they could have that much power. They just see the fact that it\u2019s not there anymore. And Moyers goes back to that era pretty much. Plus he\u2019s a liberal, and as such, he\u2019s uninformed, he\u2019s closed-minded, very narrow-minded guy. I mean most liberals are. They don\u2019t let anything penetrate if it\u2019s outside of their little safety cocoon that they live in. As for Obama, he has no respect for the private sector. When you talk about rewriting the rules that have worked here for 200 years. Exactly right, because he doesn\u2019t like it. This is all about the redistribution of wealth and so many other things. But it\u2019s purposeful, folks. No one who is even slightly economically literate would be doing this and the American people are catching on. <\/p>\n

This is Doug Bandow. He\u2019s at Cato Institute. But this is from the American Spectator blog. ‘The president\u2019s poll numbers continue to slide. Remember the ‘stimulus\u2019 bill. So do the American people — and not fondly. Rasmussen: Confidence in the $787-billion economic stimulus plan proposed by President Obama and passed by Congress in February continues to fall. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 25% of US voters now say the stimulus plan has helped the economy. That\u2019s a six-point drop from a month ago. Thirty-one percent (31%) say the stimulus actually hurt the economy, little changed from a month ago. However, this is the first poll showing that more voters believe the plan hurt rather than helped.\u2019<\/p>\n

July has been a disastrous month. And, by the way, here\u2019s another poll that shows Obama under 50%, and people want to say, ‘Well, yeah, but Rasmussen? Rasmussen leans a little right, Rush.\u2019 Okay, Zogby. If Rasmussen leans a little right — and I\u2019m not conceding that, this is what some people say — then you have to admit Zogby leans a little left and they came up with the same number. ‘Survey finds 51% believe US is on the wrong track. Forty-one percent say the nation headed in the right direction. And Obama\u2019s job approval has fallen to 48%.\u2019 So both Zogby and Rasmussen have the same number. So there\u2019s something ticking out there, and we\u2019ve got to make that tick get louder and louder and louder. Fighting these people is a daily thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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