{"id":331446,"date":"2019-12-13T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=331446"},"modified":"2019-12-16T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:33:08","slug":"my-response-to-chris-wallaces-on-trump-and-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/13\/my-response-to-chris-wallaces-on-trump-and-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"My Response to Chris Wallace on Trump and the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: To Portland, Oregon, next. Tony, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Happy Friday to you. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I had a couple thoughts recently I wanted to run by you. President Trump by nature is entrepreneurial. He\u2019s always had a knack for seeing need or opportunity, and he\u2019s driven by just creating and building answers or solutions. And I was thinking the other day in his ongoing effort over time here of basically fighting back against false information, false narratives, accusations, basically fake news. You ever think he would consider when he\u2019s out of office after another four years starting his own cable news network?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think it\u2019s possible. I think it\u2019s possible that he would, yes.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: He could even, just to tick CNN off, he could call it TNN, Trump News Network, “Everything else is fake news,” you know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It would have Trump in it and the icon, the logo would be gold, Trump News Network, Trump Real News, TRN, TFN, Trump No Fake News.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019ve never known anybody —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It will be the best network there\u2019s ever been. It will be news done better than anybody\u2019s ever done. It will be perfect, perfect news, Sean Hannity will host from 12 noon to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. I\u2019ve never known anybody in the market that has had such an impact —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I take it back, Sean Hannity, 3 p.m. to midnight, is what I meant, Sean Hannity from 3 p.m. to midnight with guest appearances by Shep Smith wherever he lives, for a while. What else were you gonna say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, no, I was just saying in my lifetime, Rush, I\u2019ve never seen a person have such —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s why he might do it. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grab sound bites 13, 14, and 15. You probably have heard this by now, that Chris Wallace was speaking at the Newseum — I think that\u2019s where he was speaking. Yes, it was at the Newseum. And he ripped into Trump as somebody doing more damage to the news business than any president he could remember. The most direct assault on freedom of the press in our history.<\/p>\n

But he also said some things beside that — well, that don\u2019t mitigate that, but it wasn\u2019t as one-sided as just those comments. So I want to play the first couple of bites here. I just have some questions. As you know, I have a regular standing appearance on Fox News Sunday every February<\/a>. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be invited back. (interruption) Well, no, no, no. It just depends. But anyway, here\u2019s the first bite. This was Wednesday at the Newseum, Chris Wallace speaking about Trump and his assaults on the media.<\/p>\n

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WALLACE: I believe that President Trump is engaged in the most direct, sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history, and I will get to that in a moment. (applause) Before you applaud, listen to the rest of this, because I think many of our colleagues in the news business see the president\u2019s attacks, his constant bashing of the media as a rationale, as an excuse to cross the line themselves to push back, and that is a big mistake.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So you may not have even heard the second part of that. I don\u2019t know how much — based on the reactions I\u2019ve gotten, all people heard was Wallace accusing Trump of being engaged in the most sustained assault on freedom of the press. He\u2019s assaulting the press. What\u2019s Trump doing about freedom of the press? He can\u2019t do anything about that. But before I get into this in detail, he then went on and he lambasted CNN, and here is the next part of the bite.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: I came here today from having spent all day at Fox News covering the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the IG report. One of our fellow networks, CNN, today ignored the IG report, ignored all of the statements about terrible misconduct, perhaps illegality on the part of the FBI in its seeking of the FISA warrants against Carter Page.<\/p>\n

Now, the last time I checked CNN was pretty interested in the Russia investigation, but they didn\u2019t seem interested in this. The fact is, to be clear, the president has given us plenty to work with. But when we respond to him like that, when we respond with bias, we\u2019re playing his game, not ours.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. So he was unabashed here in his categorizing CNN as engaging in bias, in this case the bias of omission. And it\u2019s true, CNN did not cover even yesterday, they didn\u2019t cover anything Lindsey Graham said, nothing in his opening statement. They really only covered Horowitz saying there was no political bias, and then every Democrat asking that question 15,000 times. They covered that.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t cover Horowitz getting into any of the details of the abuse, of the actual FISA warrant application and process. They didn\u2019t cover any of Lindsey Graham\u2019s opening statement or of Ted Cruz\u2019s question — well, they had a little bit of Cruz, but not much. But Wallace is dead on about that. He\u2019s dead on about it. And he called \u2019em out. Here\u2019s the last bite of this.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: Now let\u2019s talk about the president. He has done everything he can to undercut the media, to try to delegitimize us. And I think his purpose is clear. To raise doubts when we report critically about him and his administration that we can be trusted.<\/p>\n