Rush Limbaugh Quotes
The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
Limbaugh, Rush. The Rush Limbaugh Show. Premiere Networks, 2013.
Justice Blackmun was widely quoted by the press for criticizing his Supreme Court colleagues in a St. Louis speech. The justice believed that he had been misquoted and also quoted out of context. He wrote a letter to his fellow justices.
In 1948 in the midst of the Red Scare the HUAC and its Senate counterpart had started to hound a former Assistant Secretary of State, Lawrence Duggan. Typical of the times, those who disagreed with Duggan’s political views anonymously leaked material to the press alleging that Duggan might have been a spy. The press had a feeding frenzy and Dugan committed suicide in the midst of the pressure. Most in Congress paused to contemplate the consequence of what was occurring. Even Richard M. Nixon regretted the “misunderstandings.” Dugan’s father, however, an old acquaintance of Edward R. Murrow, the then dean of American broadcasters, however primarily blamed the press for printing all the unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo.
Every President in recent times had been distressed with and critical of the press, not no President (or for that matter any senior government official or legislator) has ever used the famous Ibsen phrase enemy of the people or accused the major media outlets of being an enemy of the American citizens or the nation itself--of treason.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was an American radio personality, conservative political commentator, author, and television show host. He was best known as the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, which was nationally syndicated on AM and FM radio stations.
