Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

What draws the press is conflict, corruption and scandal.

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

I have read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

Heavy media attention legitimates anything …

I'd have to set my hair on fire to get on the news.

Flamboyance causes people to notice you—particularly press people.

Listen, we’re making good progress in Iraq. Sometimes its hard to tell it when you listen to the filter.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

There has been a reflex throughout the history of modern news: When the country goes to war, so do the major news organizations. They consider it ‘patriotic.’ But it is dubious patriotism that abandons citizens in unnecessary ignorance of critical information…The before-and-after picture of U.S. officialdom presents a stark lesson of the tragedies of war and propaganda repeated in the major media.

Fox Televison News is reaching Third Reich standards of media coverage of world affairs.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

The easiest way to get on television these days is to be extremely rude.

There evolved a new media definition of civility that privileged "balance" over truth-telling—even when one side was lying. It's a real and profound change.

The media increase the political nastiness while distancing voters from those clashes. Citizens become spectators. ­Headline-­driven news emphasizes the extremes, the fights, the hysteria, the sensational. Political reporters, trying to appear objective by quoting two opposing sides to almost every story, mostly sharpen the differences, slighting any centrist position.

…Democrats are complaining that they can’t get their message out … because Donald Trump has blotted out the media sun. … The eclipse won’t end. The media has turned the Trump presidency into a phenomenon of constant self-absorption—their self-absorption in this one person. Donald Trump has become the biggest balloon in a political Macy’s parade of modern media’s own creation. They could let go of the ropes. But they won’t.

I talk about things that are front page news.

It is not every day that a pop superstar gets involved with terrorism as a victim, so the press takes advantage of that to say things they think are funny.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.