Rush Limbaugh: Are They Just Idiots in Bill Schneider's Office?

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 2/15/06 | Rush Limbaugh

[wagglebee]

RUSH: I've got to take care of something first. These idiots over at Bill Schneider's office and CNN. You remember the bit that I did yesterday in which I describe what would be happening if a Democrat vice president had shot a buddy accidentally while hunting? We would be hearing about, "Oh, this is a terrible thing. We must give the vice president room while he grieves and assembles himself as he suffers along with his friend." We'd get all kinds of features on hunting safety and there would be a totally different approach. They took one sentence out of that little monolog that I did over at CNN, Bill Schneider did, and tried to miscast this as me suggesting that there was a conspiracy by the liberal media that tarnished the vice president's reputation. It's just a little 12-second bite, but this is what happened. It was in The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Correspondent Bill Schneider's piece on the mystery man, Dick Cheney, is what they're calling him. And here's the bit.

SCHNEIDER: Conservatives see a conspiracy by the liberal media to tarnish the vice president's reputation.

RUSH QUOTE OUT OF CONTEXT: We applaud this administration for taking time to get this right rather than panicking and putting the news out.

RUSH: All right, they took that, and they had Dittocam video with it, too. You want to hear the whole monolog -- 52 seconds. You want to hear the whole thing from which that one sentence was taken? Okay, here it is.

RUSH ARCHIVE: You know darn well that if this were a vice president, and if they had delayed the story coming out like this administration did, we would be hearing, "Well, that was a wise thing to do, had to get all their -- no pun intend here -- ducks in a role, all the details, and make sure we got the facts right. We applaud this administration for taking time to get this right rather than panicking and putting the news out." And had it been leaked or reported as it was to some little newspaper in Corpus Christi, the media would be hoisting that reporter up on a pedestal and already be making job offers to get that reporter a big-time spot in the big-time media inside the big-time Beltway. The coverage would be entirely different and everybody knows it.

RUSH: Now, the sentence that they took out of that was, "We applaud this administration for taking time to get this right rather than panicking and putting the news out." I said that mimicking what the mainstream media would be saying were this a Democrat vice president who had shot a buddy accidentally while hunting quail somewhere in the high grass of Texas. They take that one sentence out of context and try to make it sound like I believe there's a media conspiracy to tarnish Cheney and that I am applauding the administration for taking time to get this right. Totally misunderstood the whole thing. Now, they had to see the whole thing. They had to watch and hear the whole thing in order to pull that one line out. Now, what is this? Was this a purposeful attempt to take me out of context, or are they just idiots over there in Bill Schneider's office? I guess that could be true, they're both. They're incompetent and they're idiots and there was an obvious attempt here, purposeful attempt to take me out of context. I don't care, it doesn't matter because I can come back the next day to a much larger audience that CNN has and correct and fix it. So it doesn't bother me. It's just more evidence of the battle and the war that we are in. This is a purposeful attempt to take me out of context and have their audience think I was saying something. (interruption) Well, now I'm getting some votes come in. They don't think Bill is purposeful, just an idiot. That's what H.R.'s opinion is. I don't even know that Bill's the guy. Somebody put this together for him, "Okay, Bill, here's the voiceover copy." He probably writes it. Hear it again now that you've heard the bit. Go back to cut one, Mike, and this is what Schneider said during the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer yesterday afternoon.

SCHNEIDER: Conservatives see a conspiracy by the liberal media to tarnish the vice president's reputation.

RUSH QUOTE OUT OF CONTEXT: We applaud this administration for taking time to get this right rather than panicking and putting the news out.

RUSH: Bill, you have to understand, I was imitating you. I was telling my audience what you would be saying about the Democrat vice president were the parties different in this incident. It's just unbelievable.

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Read & Listen to Rush's Monolog...

(If Vice President Cheney Were a Democrat - 02.14.06)

[wagglebee]

Rush proved yet again that the left doesn't even begin to realize how out of touch they really are.

[Tanniker Smith]

Rush, Rush, Rush! Don't be silly!

What would a Democrat VP be doing WITH A GUN??
(I mean, if he wasn't under the delusion that he was winning a few votes for his presidential bid by appearing with one.)

Democrats get away from it all be seeking out the tranquil Atlantic Coast with its beautiful views, unobscured by oil rigs or windmills or anything.

[Brilliant]

The media has really outdone itself on this Cheney thing. They are SOOOOOO transparent. And yet they are so stupid that they think we agree with them.

[InterceptPoint]

My problem with Rush is that he wants to be the story. Sorry but I just can't get interested.

[wagglebee]

He WAS the story.

[Casloy]

Rush looks like he is putting on weight again.

[M. Thatcher]

My problem with Rush is that he wants to be the story. Sorry but I just can't get interested.

No, your problem is that you didn't READ the story...which IS about Rush, like it or not.

[B.O. Plenty]

Your loss....

[brazzaville]

Good evening.
"What would a Democrat VP be doing WITH A GUN??"

Trying to fool us into thinking he was one of us?

Can I get me a vote here?

Michael Frazier

[Osage Orange]

My problem with Rush is that he wants to be the story. Sorry but I just can't get interested.

Ahhh...!!

He WAS...part of the story.....

[Liberty Valance]

I think this calls for a 10 round cage match
Limbaugh vs Schneider
In Las Vegas - spring break

[FlingWingFlyer]

I cannot believe Schneider and his band of Leftist kooks actually thought that they could get away with this. This is disgraceful and disgusting "journalism." Somebody owes Limbaugh an apology.

[ConservativeMan55]

Actually..he's lost weight recently. He gained a bunch of weight after getting off the pain medicine. And now it appears he's lost most of it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

He WAS the story.

Thank you. I think somebody who hasn't read the story is having a "Duh?" moment. LOL!

[wagglebee]

I think we've all been guilty of not reading a story and making a "bizarre" comment based on what we assume it says.

[technomage]

What would a Democrat VP be doing WITH A GUN??

Campaigning for re-election?

"Is this where I can get me a hunting license?" - John F'n Kerry - 2004

[ClaireSolt]

What I want to know is what happened to his wife?

[Tribune7]

I heard this. Rush is great. My mind boggles at the salaries given to incompetents.

[Dandriano]

I wish this weren't a common occurrence, but when doesn't the media distort things, especially using the method of taking things out of context? And people give me funny looks when I tell them that I don't watch television or use the internet much. Look at all the trash that is cluttering it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Yeah. And I'll plead guilty to doing that a time or two myself. I heard these clips on Limbaugh's show today. I couldn't believe that Schnieder was stupid enough to think he and his cronies could get away with this phony balony "reporting." THIS WAS BLATANT!