Rush Limbaugh Quotes

I apologize for what the media has done.

Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.

So people that read the New York Times are not gonna have the slightest idea what really happened here. So not only are the Drive-Bys themselves a little dense and not curious and uninformed, so are all of their viewers and readers.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

You have people talk about the media as a coequal branch when talking about Republicans. "You know, Republicans have to overcome the media, and then the Democrats." Wait a minute. Why should anybody have to overcome the media?

The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.

It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news. And people who rely on the media, like Mr. Trump, think that everything is a disaster. The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish. It's a point of fact that we're doing extremely well.

The media are very dishonest. In fact, in covering my comments, the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people - the fake news. They dropped off the word "fake." And all of the sudden, the story became, the media is the enemy. They take the word "fake" out, and now I'm saying, oh, no, this is no good. But that's the way they are. So I'm not against the media. I'm not against the press. I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them. And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't - I don't get too many of them.

The media's so bad, I'm gonna hit 'em as hard as I can.

I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

In America , the media lives in a vacuum where they are able to not just criticize; they're able to destroy.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

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.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.