{"id":368856,"date":"2020-10-15T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=368856"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:58:53","slug":"nbc-angers-media-brethren-by-hosting-trump-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/10\/15\/nbc-angers-media-brethren-by-hosting-trump-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Angers Media Brethren by Hosting Trump Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So we\u2019ve got some competing television. I got Thursday Night Football tonight, and we have two political town halls tonight, and NBC is facing a huge backlash for booking Donald Trump in a town hall against Joe Biden on ABC. I\u2019m here to tell you, the left is so mad at NBC for scheduling Trump against Biden.<\/p>\n

\"\"I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen anybody on our side say a thing about this conflict. They\u2019re worried about it for some reason. I don\u2019t know. But this is potentially fascinating here. There\u2019s a companion story: “Don Lemon Rips NBC for ‘Rewarding\u2019 Trump with Town Hall…”<\/a> So here\u2019s the upshot here. “Calling it the ‘story of the day,\u2019 Lemon told his primetime colleague [Fredo] Cuomo that people were ‘outraged\u2019 about the dueling town halls…<\/p>\n

“‘Why on earth would NBC agree to do that?\u2019 Lemon asked. ‘You can do equal time on a different night! You can do equal time at a different time! You don\u2019t have to do it at the same time and then divide the country further by having them choose!\u2019 [Lemon] accused NBC of ‘learning nothing from 2016\u2019 in ‘allowing a man who made all the wrong decisions\u2019 regarding the president\u2019s handling of the coronavirus and ‘rewarding him with prime time.\u2019<\/p>\n

“‘How does it help the American people? How does that help the electorate by putting those two people on at the same time and making people choose from one to the other?'” They don\u2019t like competition, do they? They just don\u2019t like it. So, according to Don Lemon, ABC should do their town hall with Plugs, and NBC, if they want to do one with Trump… They actually shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

But if they want to do one, it should not be at the same time that ABC is doing one with Biden. You know what they\u2019re afraid of? What do you think they\u2019re afraid of, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) Right. They\u2019re afraid that NBC is going to be the most watched town hall tonight because that\u2019s where Trump is, and that the ABC town hall is gonna be trounced and that therefore, it\u2019s gonna look like Trump is so much more popular than Biden.<\/p>\n

Now, that will be a fascinating juxtaposition. So you\u2019ve got two competing town halls here tonight. NBC, ABC. Trump\u2019s NBC, and if Trump\u2019s NBC town hall draws far more audience than Biden\u2019s on ABC, then the Democrats are gonna be scared. Democrats gonna say, “Oh, no!” Their polling is gonna be challenged. Their baked-in-the-cake beliefs are gonna be challenged.<\/p>\n

“Insiders told [the New York Post] Page Six<\/a> the last-minute decision is causing ‘a great deal of internal consternation\u2019 at NBC. ‘People saw the backlash coming, and bosses went ahead with the scheduling anyway because they thought it would get the best ratings…\u2019 But NBC is pushing back on claims that the Trump town hall is an aggressive ratings ploy.<\/p>\n

\"\"“‘Ratings were the last on a long list of concerns after public health and [NBC\u2019s] public responsibility to inform viewers. The event is taking place on Thursday because that night is available for both candidates, and NBC offered 8 p.m. because it\u2019s the same time slot that was offered to Joe Biden last week.'”<\/p>\n

“Former NBC News VP Slams Network\u2019s Decision to Air Donald Trump Town Hall<\/a> — Cheryl Gould, the former vice president of NBC News, has publicly criticized the network for agreeing to host … Trump\u2019s town hall … ‘I am dismayed — more like disgusted — by NBC\u2019s decision… Is this what the new leadership at NBC thinks is the right thing to do?<\/p>\n

“‘To be complicit in Trump\u2019s tantrum? A shameless grab for ratings!\u2019 ‘I wouldn\u2019t be shocked if this were Fox News. But NBC? My former home?\u2019 Gould continued. ‘I\u2019ve never been happier to say the word “former.”‘ Can you believe how upset these people are? This is just about ratings? This is just about they\u2019re mad at NBC for undermining ABC?<\/p>\n

No, no, no, no. It\u2019s far more than that. They really don\u2019t want the specter of a… Look, they\u2019re out there promoting Plugs as winning in a landslide. They\u2019re out there promoting Plugs as owning it. He\u2019s up by double digits. Trump\u2019s chances of victory are in the single digits. Plugs is at 91% chance of winning, and now they\u2019re gonna do a town hall with them head-to-head and Plugs is barely gonna get any viewers.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trump\u2019s doing a rally right now. You know why he\u2019s doing a rally right now? It\u2019s \u2019cause he\u2019s going on “Concast” tonight. It\u2019s what he calls Comcast. They own NBC. He\u2019s got a rally on NBC tonight at the same time Biden has a rally on ABC, and they are livid. Oh! The Drive-By Media is so mad at NBC for doing this. Oh, they are fit to be tied.<\/p>\n

Carl Bernstein can\u2019t see over it, he\u2019s so mad. All of them are ticked off out there \u2019cause they know that Trump ratings-wise is just gonna skunk Plugs, and they are afraid that that\u2019s going to lead people to believe that Trump is just so much more popular than Biden, and it could affect the way people vote and all that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Carl Bernstein. This is audio sound bite number 22. This afternoon CNN\u2019s Newsroom. He\u2019s talking to the infobabe Brianna Keilar, who said, “NBC says that if they moved the event to a different time slot -” the Trump rally “– they\u2019d be violating their agreement to give both candidates the same platform. I know you see it differently. So explain to us how you see it.”<\/p>\n

BERNSTEIN: It\u2019s nonsense. What NBC has done here is indefensible. What they have chosen to do, NBC, is to be conned by Donald Trump. And that is what has really raised the most serious journalistic questions and the reason that so many people who work at NBC and MSNBC are so upset by what NBC has done here, capitulating to Donald Trump\u2019s demands that will allow him to cut into Joe Biden\u2019s audience, essentially, because MSNBC, CNBC, these cable channels, ABC, which is broadcasting Biden, has no similar cable channel. So obviously Trump will get the larger audience.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Hey, Carl, Trump\u2019s gonna get the larger audience if he\u2019s on a pair of tin cans and a piece of string. Now, you can sit there and moan and whine all you want, but don\u2019t you love the fact that these people think NBC capitulated to Trump? Oh, yeah, NBC capitulated to Trump. Does anybody know the time, the actual time of these things? I don\u2019t even have any idea.<\/p>\n

I also need to correct myself. There is no Thursday Night Football tonight. And I guess this is because of the COVID-19 circumstance. It was to be the Buffalo Bulls and the Kansas City Chiefs, but the Buffalo Bulls played on Tuesday and they got creamed. Who\u2019d they lose to? The Tennessee Titans. So the Chiefs and the Buffalo Bulls will play on Monday night at 5 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n

(interruption) Eight p.m. eastern for both of these? I thought there was a one half our overlap. Is one of them an hour long and one of them an hour and a half or are they both the same time frame? Do we know? Well, when you find out, let me know.<\/p>\n

Here we go with ABC. Sound bites 23 and 24. These are from back in 2019. We\u2019ve aired these. The purpose here, ABC knows the Hunter Biden story, the story I spent an hour breaking down for you today, concluding with the fact that Biden over the years has put his family in positions of influence, corruption with various foreign countries and foreign businesses using his power as a senator and as vice president.<\/p>\n

And it was his family who received the payments and the family were required to send Pop half of every payment they got. That kept Pop — i.e., Joe Biden — out of the loop. They were getting the money, not him, so any money to that showed up in Pop\u2019s account, why, look at this devoted family. Why, these family members are saying thank you to Pop. He was out of the line of fire. It\u2019s a brilliantly conceived corruption setup. Point is, ABC News has known about this since 2019. Good Morning America, Tom Llamas reporting about Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings in Ukraine and China.<\/p>\n

LLAMAS: Was Hunter Biden profiting off his dad\u2019s work as vice president, and did Joe Biden allow it? We\u2019re talking about millions of dollars in at least two countries. “Mr. Vice President, Tom Llamas at ABC News, how you doing? Got a quick question for you.” It\u2019s a question we tried to ask repeatedly. “Can we ask you about Ukraine and China?” But kept getting blocked. One person who did not want to talk about it, Joe Biden. “Mr. Vice President, what\u2019s your take on that? Was there a conflict of interest there? Was there a clear conflict of interest?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. All right. So that\u2019s Tom Llamas asking Biden. “Hey, Tommy, buddy old buddy, how you doing?” Biden says. Gotta quick question for you, old buddy, old pal, tried to ask repeatedly, “Can we ask you about Ukraine and China?” Kept getting blocked. One person didn\u2019t want to talk about it, Joe Biden. They knew about it. ABC cannot ignore this. Here\u2019s the next bite, Tom Llamas.<\/p>\n

LLAMAS: We went to Kiev and found even among Joe Biden\u2019s supporters in Ukraine, Hunter\u2019s hiring was troubling. How do you judge what Hunter Biden was doing?<\/p>\n

DARIA KALENIUK: I think that Hunter did a very bad thing, and he was very wrong. He allowed his name to be abused.<\/p>\n