Jim Rutenberg’s Fantasy About Fox, Hannity & What Happened at Cape Girardeau

RUSH: Folks, you have to hear this. Our old buddy Jim Rutenberg. Now, you’ve heard me mention Rutenberg. When I first heard of Jim Rutenberg, he was a media columnist at the New York Times. And he was one of the few reporters at the New York Times which reported on me, Rush H. Limbaugh III, and this program not just fairly, but accurately and honestly. That is so unusual that we always note it when it happens in the Drive-By Media. … And Rutenberg has always been, when I have made it into stories that he has written, I’ve always been accurately portrayed, accurately quoted. I have not been misquoted. I have not been mischaracterized or any of that.

Now, Jim Rutenberg has climbed the ladder of success at the New York Times since those early days… And Jim Rutenberg, you may remember the name, Jim Rutenberg is the guy, after Trump was elected, who wrote that front-page piece in the New York Times about how journalism needs to change now. We just can’t sit by and do what we’ve always done. We just can’t report the news. We’ve got somebody in the office that we personally abhor. When we personally hate the guy, what are we supposed to do?

What are journalists supposed to do? … Jim Rutenberg said that we have decided that we’re gonna try to take the guy out. Now, I’m paraphrasing. But Rutenberg admitted that Trump was such a drastic emergency that journalism had to drop all pretense of objectivity and fairness and devote itself to getting rid of President Trump. This man was simply unacceptable, he’s not presidential material, he is not at all qualified for this. This is an abomination of America’s electoral system, this has happened. That’s Jim Rutenberg.

So at the New York Times website they have prepared a video. Rutenberg has prepared a video. I don’t know what the occasion is. I don’t know what it is for. I know what it’s about. It’s about Rupert Murdoch and Fox News and the relationship Murdoch and Fox have with Trump. What’s ironic about this is how these guys sit here and they bemoan and they lament that there may be one network that reports on Trump fairly, and somehow this is a bastardization of journalism.

So here’s Rutenberg. And this video is red meat for the New York Times ’cause they hate Trump, and they hate me, and they hate Fox, and they hate Hannity. They hate Judge Jeanine and all of that. So the impetus of the video is that Fox, the premise of the video is that Fox elected Trump, that Trump has taken over Fox, and that it all started with me in the sacred conservative ground of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

RUTENBERG: This is the night Fox crossed the line between where the network ends and President Trump begins. And I’m going to tell you how we got here. This is not just any rally. It’s the night before a historic midterm election. Control of Congress, the future of Trump’s presidency, it’s all on the line. Missouri is a key battleground and team Trump is pulling out all the stops to fire up the base. This is the birthplace, the hometown of Rush Limbaugh. There’s no more sacred ground in conservative media.

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