Panel of Journalists Blames Their Unpopularity on Me

RUSH: Here we go with the NPR and media stuff where they claim that they are not biased. And, by the way, who do you think it is that’s responsible for everybody thinking the media is biased? I’ll give you one guess. That’s right. That would be me, your beloved host. So here we go. Yesterday afternoon in Washington at the National Judicial College Symposium entitled, “Undermining the Courts and the Media: The Consequences for American Democracy.”

They think somebody is sabotaging them! And they did this at the National Judicial College in a symposium. The moderator was Bob Garfield from NPR, and here’s part of his opening, I believe.

GARFIELD: Sixty-nine percent of U.S. adults said their trust in the news media has decreased in the past decade. Among conservatives, the number was 95%. But some of this, as we’re about to discuss, has to do with our demagogue president who dwells in alternate reality, dismisses actual reality as fake news, and declares media enemies of the people. Some of it has to do with the 50-year campaign to discredit so-called mainstream media by politicians and the archipelago of accusation, the likes of Limbaugh and Fox.

RUSH: The archipelago of accusation. That’s me, folks. New title, the Archipelago of Accusation, Limbaugh and Fox. A 50-year — no, 30, but who’s counting — campaign to discredit so-called mainstream media. Right here in this guy’s opening. “Well, some of this, as we’re about to discuss, has to do with our demagogue president.” And they claim they’re not biased. There’s no bias here. You people are all wet. Among conservatives, 95% have lost trust in the news media. And of course you wouldn’t have lost trust in the news media were it not for me, the demagogue of accusation.

These people still do not get it. Thirty years ago those of you listening today who were listening then, you were there 30 years ago. You thought 30 years what you think today. You weren’t sitting out, a mind-numbed nobody, and all of a sudden happened to cross me on the radio and then started thinking, “Oh, yeah, this guy’s right.” You already thought what you thought of the media. Many people already did.

PAGE: I do not really think there’s a liberal bias in the press. I think there’s a conflict bias. We like conflict over things that work out well. There’s a bias for new over old. We like simple over complicated, black and white over gray, but I don’t think that’s fundamentally liberal. And if you think there’s a liberal bias, just ask the Obama White House if they saw a big liberal bias in the press that covered them, because they would have said no. There’s a conservative or establishment or some other kind of bias there.

RUSH: The first part of this, “I think there’s a conflict bias. We like conflict over things that work out well.” Yeah, you do, but you make the conflict. You create the conflict. “We like conflict over things that work out well.” Boy, that’s big. The media doesn’t like things that work out well, folks. Well, right there we find ourselves add odds with them ’cause I’ll bet you nine out of 10 of you want things to work out well, whatever we’re talking about.

But she’s admitting that’s the worst thing in the world for the media. They need the conflict. They need demons. They need villains. And they claim there’s no liberal bias. When’s the last liberal villain you can recall in the Drive-By Media, folks?

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