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bit about uh...
who media matters and i agree has declared to be the mists informer of the
year rush limbaugh who just said that all
all the masks shooters are liberals and then he says i'd take that back but he
really got into trouble earlier this year for this clip does the same
describing sandra fluke was making the case
about uh... the importance of women being covered as part of the health care
coverage being able to get uh... contraception here's what rush limbaugh
had to say about that
another college
proposal for a congressional committee is essentially says that she must be
paid to have sex was a record
there is a slot blot it
better brother says that she wants to be paid to have sex
alternative solution onslaught israel healed untended that
on will mind
all the women
at georgetown university as much as
asperger to put between then leaves
their war
uh... are that was at just a remarkable thing when it happened at the time and
and
fair to say that this stands out as one of the most uh... outrageous things away
from broadcasting in in years
well i think there to overcome water
you couldn't play baseball club
because it lasted reporting
that first of all made of remarkable but
anyone like you were talking about
hillary clinton or barbara boxer orc
a woman with a public platform i'm not prepared to carry better but but to
attack
someone who was at the time basically a law student
with no media or public platform to defend themselves were i'd it limited
so outlandish
there was an effort are strong effort to try to get uh... stations that is sort
of uh... block rush limbaugh today viewers to tune amounts uh... it was up
as you think the logical
and somehow appropriate the response a lot of people who want to take action
felt somehow powerless over what rush limbaugh says
i mean i felt like that was the first major better this year of people so you
know what we're gonna start using our pocketbooks not
and advertisers
and to try to pressure people to do the right thing
right and it looked like a picnic
seeing over and over again if you know
in uh... at your dinner stockholder report as another cochran settings
radio executive never rush limbaugh or clear channel the radio khaki to talk
about
the the impact that this is pat on the entire industry
so i think people took action i think that action admin act look rush is right
uh... he connects
say were incorrect favorite show the continuation of a huge impact
if they get together and and and share voices
what do you make of uh... of rush limbaugh for example even on the on the
events of this week he said that the n_r_a_ and of the n_r_a_ press
conference when lapierre we hope you would like to test
or offer any sort of sympathies are rapidly to the victims of newtown
connecticut he wouldn't talk about the proposals for gun control do you really
don't show a loophole grid of assault weapons instead
without the herbal verde a statement with
and didn't take any questions strictly about the idea that there should be
armed guards armed police now in every school in the nation and rush limbaugh's
reaction has got even more complex teachers proposal effect exactly more
guns less teachers and rush limbaugh's reaction
was will not be a sounded like an adult
looking for a real solutions
cracks and what did it go
sounds like
photocopy some analogy but it took it's so in pain i mean
i think we watch in that
here at the problem with rocks and i think ultimately this is the problem
conservatives based
overall and why rush
makes the perfect mccann or murkier because
not only did he do conform
on the left in interpret hatred live image informed
in their own party either conform to the home team
argument reported on ideology
in there
that he led them to a place where the conservative movement
it entirely captivated by niche marketing
and what i mean by that is
the critical moment of the campaign
i thought about the moment
that the entire race turned around
would at least second with at the heart
where mitt romney back and prop obama had dedicated up and i think
and also a remarkable book without touching the mcnaught
that candy crowley corrected mit romney
it worked
at mit romney was so captivated
into the right wing message mission
that he didn't realize
not everybody which hearing your paintings she was
he couldn't conceive of the fact
there were different voices and
and uh...
different
and different opinions on that and that the back she were dedicated to getting
hit by the marketing because they were getting them
from popular commercial monthly like that
were wall
so
it much became i still like her
wayne lapierre looking very naked by yesterday core group to have a two
hundred million dollar annual budget
and think about that for checking each one hundred million dollar
annual budget
he went out yesterday
and it was very clear to me
but he gave a statement that the right
will like
that the right will absorb he spoke
but he didn't stick it anybody who doesn't watch fox news all day
and ultimately this is what does damage to the conservative movement
for their media start the rush limbaugh the bill o'reilly
it can make them rich because if you can get a few million people looking to you
that's going to make you a lot of money
good haha if you're a politician start listening to you
they forget they've only a few million people
and those two million people are not only talking to themselves
and that's where your communication mechanisms just completely breakdown
we're talking with auto with our even ha senior adviser the media matters and
also a host of the agenda on serious accent satellite radio are you got any
sense that they're having been burned
by conservative media that at least a lot of this talisman republicans are
trying to minimize
bill o'reilly rush limbaugh and the rest for fear of of not repeating the same
mistakes and twenty thirteen
that they had in twenty twelve
uh... you know
because if they were we wouldn't have
in what happened
we would not asking what happened uh... this week a john bainer
it they were trying to minimize the damage
uh... we wouldn't we wouldn't have seen that incurred in the house of
representatives very clear
they are all in on this
that they have decided that they're not going to talk to the country
that there are only that the republican party and the conservative movement
id only going to talk
to the viewers of boxers and listeners over the rush limbaugh show
that what uh... treating children in
at the heritage foundation
it all done that but ultimately it why
rush limbaugh makes such a great nixon former appear which you can read the
whole article on the media matters dot or why we didn't connect
because
hindu
it's not just about under well-to-do distorted the entire
conservative movement anything
and it's gone so far
that'd alternately caught them by destroying debate in this country
and again there's still this fear that if you somehow cross rush limbaugh
if you somehow say something that uh... he disagrees with and your conservative
then you get past the size not only by him but that all these millions of
followers to listen to him and and watch fox news
right and and you have to be redundant
look any kind
their that type of control exerted by one wing of any
uh... party it and uh... atty
it and the problematic
poor that political group because in it to win an election unique agreement
sixty seventy million people
that you are right
you can't do that by committing drina in people you're right
the evening shows are fox news this past week they were mocking hillary clinton's
compulsion
uh... there does seem to be a certain sort of uh... absurd quality to serve
the entertainment whether it's russia lamar foxnews are part of that opinion
per person
that's that hillary clinton really didn't have a concussion but is this
ten-year the
gratitude for stop anyone who don't hillary
will tell you
parents not wanting to mistake backing down for a fight
reno issue has been to twenty years right
issue really that scared of about a republican tenders really
you know let me know
they've hit the target because
they uh... state department report came out this week that
potentially
setup all the right wing uh... scandal mongering around
then dot he was false
there were you it wasn't democrat and production along
there were mistakes made
and by the way every people resigned from the state department that's three
more people than ever resigned thirteen abad cheap iraq war
i read an offering advice to the media matters most
the gender unserious extend satellite radio he's sticking with us uh... and on
the side of the next segment we're gonna talk to arianna collect things up a
little bit uh... we're gonna play to uh... one of all restraints and that is
uh... could have a little bit of bonnets particularly with a member of congress
tried to deliver an apology in the house floor and only three students but he was
apologizing for his part of the general feeling of reduction of apologies record
breaking off
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