{"id":9196,"date":"2014-06-10T17:58:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:58:45","slug":"there_is_no_news_just_narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/10\/there_is_no_news_just_narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"There is No News, Just Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This morning on CNN, they had a guest, senior writer Maggie Haberman of Politico. And they were talking about Hillary\u2019s interview with Diane Sawyer in which she said that (imitating Hillary), “Oh, yeah, Bill and I were dead broke. Oh, it was horrible. We didn\u2019t have anything. We were in debt, oh, it was horrible.” And the fill-in host, Brooke Baldwin, said to Maggie Haberman, “On the issue of paying for the houses and the mortgages, the RNC is jumping on it as out of touch with middle class Americans. Is there any validity to that?”<\/p>\n

HABERMAN: I think she handled the interview extremely well, with the exception of that “houses” answer about her income. That\u2019s the one thing I think she\u2019d do over. I also don\u2019t think it\u2019s consequential that she said that. I think it will be meaningless in a couple weeks. The Romney gaffe fed into an existing narrative. There is not such an existing narrative that she\u2019s out of touch.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what an admission. Here you have a woman at Politico who writes the narrative every day, the template — you know, Washington is a soap opera. Every day the script for the soap opera has to be written. Now, what she meant by that is, “Well, there was an existing narrative, that we wrote, that Mitt Romney was this rich guy, filthy rich, out of touch, never earned anything. He was so out of touch he didn\u2019t care about average people. He didn\u2019t care about little people,” and that was the existing narrative.<\/p>\n

So when the story appears with Romney and his dog on the top of the station wagon family vacation, it fit the narrative that Miss Haberman will not admit she constructed. (imitating Haberman) “But since there is no narrative that the Clintons are filthy rich<\/a> and out of touch and embarrassingly whatever, then there\u2019s no story here.” And this is exactly how it works, proving, folks, there is no news. The media is not about news.<\/line><\/p>\n

The Politico reporter basically just said that what Mrs. Clinton said about being dead broke, being tone deaf, it doesn\u2019t matter, because it doesn\u2019t fit what anybody thinks about them so therefore it doesn\u2019t mean anything. But with Romney, oh, yeah. Romney was this rich guy, and he was always rich. He was filthy rich and he got rich as a capitalist. And he got rich as an investor. And it was horrible. And we have been tarring and feathering Romney for years because he\u2019s a rich guy.<\/p>\n

So when the story comes up about Romney being a rich guy, well, the narrative\u2019s already there, it plugs right in, it fits. But the Clintons, no. What\u2019s the narrative on the Clintons? Oh, you want to hear the narrative on the Clintons? Some of the nicest, down to earth, hardest working people, care so much about other people, don\u2019t care a thing about themselves. Their entire lives have been about public service and public sacrifice. The Clintons are in it not for themselves; they\u2019re in it for everybody else.<\/p>\n

The Clintons have answered the call. They\u2019re down for the struggle. They help the blacks. They help the poor. They help civil rights activists. They\u2019re into all of these things. Clinton watched black churches burn. They couldn\u2019t care less about money. They couldn\u2019t care less about having money. They\u2019re happy to pay their taxes. They do not hang around with rich people, except for Warren Buffett and practically everybody else, Bill Gates, you name \u2019em, but they do everything for public service.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s the narrative on the Clintons. And that was not the narrative. Obama put the story out that Clinton was a racist. Well, actually Clinton did say something racist. He was sitting with some equally rich white guy in South Carolina, and he said of Obama (doing Clinton impression), “You know, it\u2019s not that long ago that guy\u2019d be the one bringing us our coffee.” (interruption) That\u2019s right, that\u2019s who he told it to, Ted Kennedy. Yeah. That\u2019s exactly right. Clinton was sitting down with Ted Kennedy somewhere, and Clinton said (doing Clinton impression), “You know, Ted, it wasn\u2019t that long ago that guy\u2019d be the one bringing us our coffee.” And Kennedy said (imitating Kennedy), “No, scotch, but I get your point.”<\/p>\n

Obama heard about that and played the race card on Clinton, and you just don\u2019t do that. Here\u2019s a guy, the first black president. Clinton got mad (doing Clinton impression), “They played the race card on me. I can\u2019t believe they did that.” But that never became a narrative. That was a one-off. The Clinton narrative is a construct of lies. That\u2019s the whole point. The Romney narrative is a construct of lies. But who does the narrative? The media, the Maggie Habermans of the world. They\u2019re the ones that write the narrative. They\u2019re the soap opera script writers.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t any news anymore. There simply is the narrative of the day, the template of the day. That\u2019s why when a school shooting happens, “Uh-oh, gun control! Narrative: A-ha\u2019s, guns bad. There\u2019s the story. Plug it in.” That\u2019s why there\u2019s excitement and thrills when these kinds of disasters happen. Our next hurricane, they can\u2019t wait. The narrative: global warming caused it. Never mind the fact, you know, there has not been a major Category 4 or 5 hurricane that\u2019s hit the United States in 3,000 days. It doesn\u2019t matter. The next one that does, “See? Global warming.” The narrative is already there. There is no news. And now I\u2019m really finished with all this for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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