Rush Limbaugh Quotes

The media is terribly worried that Donald Trump is going to influence people. The media will tell you, I mean, crazy Mika, Ms. Brzezinski, actually said that she worries that Trump may actually end up controlling what people think on jobs and the economy. And it's not the president's job, it's the media's job to tell people, to determine people exactly what they think.

The media can make or break an administration.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

In the old days, there were three networks, and all of a sudden, Walter Cronkite is the most trusted man in America. Everybody believes what he says, not even thinking. In those days, we didn't even know it was being spun. We were very willing to just listen to it and go along with.

On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to him, look how people feel about this. Look how the country has reacted with revulsion to the revelations. So do the decent and sensible thing and reconsider, think again, about your bid for BSkyB.

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

Donald Trump has the media wrapped around his little finger. And this is a contributing factor to why so many people are bothered and upset, because even in the Republican establishment, the media is looked at as a legitimate player in the power arrangement of politics.

The media is running the entire left wing of America. But I think they are disgusting more and more people all over this country. I think they are just turning people off, and I don't think they yet have any idea of the damage they are doing to the Democrat Party, which is where people show their disgust with this.

The people are doing everything they can to stop Democrats! The problem is, the media is running the opposition, not the Democrats. You want to stop this? Stop the media. How do you stop the media? Turn 'em off, don't believe 'em, don't let 'em affect what you think and do. Beyond that, get creative.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.