Rush Limbaugh Quotes

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

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

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.

The public are not stupid.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

I wish that the television would show the long shot. They show you an angry mob violently protesting. But if you look at a long shot, you see that it is 10 idiots in a parking lot.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

Books by politicians paint a picture of what they want you to see, not what really happened.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

The reality is if you tell people something long enough, good or bad, they're going to believe it. And for a while the picture painted was that I wasn't exactly a favorable character.

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

Much of what we regard as truth in the war on terror is actually rather suspect.

People see whatever the media first reports.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

One-fifth of Americans, 20% believe that Barak Obama is, himself, a Muslim and in fact - amongst Republicans that number is almost 40%. Polls show in this country, that the more you disagree with Barak Obama's domestic policies, the more likely you are to think that he is a Muslim.

I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.