RUSH:
We have a ban on playing what happens on MSNBC, and I'm not yet
prepared to lift that ban. By the way, I should tell you that
there is
a lot of soul-searching going on over at NBC about what to do now with
MSNBC. They finally have figured out that the garbage and trash
on
that network -- and they admit, by the way, that it was a direct result
of Fox, that they did their own version of Air America trying to take
this program out. Well, they tried to do their version of Fox
News on
MSNBC, thinking that would be the way to compete and beat Fox, 'cause
they think there are many more liberals in America than there are
conservatives, and if conservatives are watching Fox, we'll go get the
liberals and we'll smoke 'em.
And just as the people running Air America had no idea what they were
doing, they had no idea why conservative talk radio succeeds, the
liberals at NBC have no idea why Fox succeeds. They have no
idea.
Even the liberals who work at Fox, like the analysts and the
commentators -- and there are lots of 'em -- even they do not know why
Fox succeeds. They know Fox is number one, but they can't figure
out
why. And the reason they can't figure it out -- I probably should
not
give up the ghost here. The reason they can't figure it out is
they do
not understand connecting to an audience. They literally have no
concept of what that even means.
Her
[Zbigniew Brzezinski's daughter]basic
point of view was, well, Obama's the president and he gets to do
whatever he wants to do, and anybody standing in his way is undermining
him. And Cruz explained, no, we're not undermining. We are using our
legitimate constitutional role to be participants in this process. This
cannot become law without us.
The whole idea of connecting with an audience to liberals is beneath
them. The audience is not worth connecting to; they're not that
smart. Otherwise they'd be here on the air, not watching
us. There's
a general contempt for audiences, particularly the audience at Fox
News, but even their own audience there's a contempt for them, and they
have no idea how to connect. So they make the assumption Fox succeeds
because it's conservative. They have no idea why Fox
succeeds. That
has maybe something to do with, I can't deny that, but that's not the
sole reason, and it's not even the majority reason Fox succeeds.
But you'll never persuade a leftist of that. Some of the highest
paid,
supposedly most qualified news broadcast executives in the world work
at NBC, and they do not know how to compete with Fox News. The
first
thing they do is look at it, they look at its success and then they
ignore it. They say, "Well, you know, it's a bunch of kooks and
freaks. It's a sideshow and it really isn't representative of America,
so we don't really need to worry about it." And they live in a
state
of utter and total denial.
Then they realize they have to compete with it so they do what they
think Fox does only on the left side, and that's just go wall to wall,
total, extreme, radical leftist ideology, which is what they think Fox
is on the right, and that's not what Fox is, but that's what they think
it is. And the evidence is clear, they don't have any
audience. MSNBC
is one of the greatest failures of all time in media.
What I was gonna say is that Ted Cruz was on MSNBC, I think it was this
morning, with Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. He just took
Mika
to school on this whole subject of the letter sent to the Iranian
mullahs by 47 Republican senators. And you know how he took her
to
school? He simply explained the Constitution. She didn't
know what he
was talking about. He just simply explained to her the ways
things
become law in America. And whenever he got to pointing out
Congress
either has to pass a law that gets sent to the president for signature
or they have to ratify a treaty, which is what we'd be talking about
here with this Iranian nuke deal, she couldn't get past the idea that
the Senate has any right to participate.
What gives them the right to participate? The president's
negotiating
this deal, if the Senate gets involved they're undermining him.
And
Cruz said, "No, no, no." She was lost.
[Continued]
In
closing arguments, the defense attorney argued that the victim accused
the perp of '3-5' separate acts of rape, stating: 'Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury: We're all adults here. The defendant is in his
early
30's, and his accuser herself admits that the two of them were doing
cocaine and drinking alcohol for at least 12 hours prior to the
supposed 'rape'. What man could perform sexually to that extent
in
such circumstances?'.
