Posted on 12/06/2017 2:32:26 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Cookie has this 60 Minutes thing that she says is hilarious that weve had for two or three days that I havent used. Let me go ahead and do it. I found that. Apparently, 60 Minutes just celebrated their 50th anniversary. You know, I went to their What was it? It was at the 25th. I went to the 25th. It was at the Temple of Bindar, Temple of Dundar, Temple of Whatever exhibit at a museum. Thats where they sat me with Camille Paglia and thought there were gonna be fireworks. Steve Kroft and Morley Safer kept circling my table. I couldnt figure out why.
They were waiting for Camille Paglia to storm out in protest at being forced to sit at my table, which of course didnt happen. We became fast friends. It ruined their night. Ed Bradley too. It was the only reason I was invited. Theyd profiled me but I was only invited because they thought fireworks were gonna erupt.
So Sunday night on 60 Minutes or 50th anniversary after an opening montage on footage from stories spanning the last 50 years (not any of them including my profile), they played their iconic opening listing all of their contributors. You know, I am Morley Safer. I am Ed Bradley. Im Steve Kroft. Im Lesley Stahl, and youre not one of us. Its that opening they do.
They left somebody out.
They left somebody out, and we decided to add that somebody in. So here is their version
MIKE WALLACE: (music) Im Mike Wallace.
HARRY REASONER: Im Harry Reasoner.
MORLEY SAFER: Im Morley Safer.
DAN RATHER: Im Dan Rather.
ED BRADLEY: Im Ed Bradley.
DIANE SAWYER: Im Diane Sawyer.
STEVE KROFT: Im Steve Kroft.
MEREDITH VIEIRA: Im Meredith Vieira.
LESLEY STAHL: Im Lesley Stahl.
BOB SIMON: Im Bob Simon.
SCOTT PELLEY: Im Scott Pelley.
KATIE COURIC: Im Katie Couric.
LARA LOGAN: Im Lara Logan.
ANDERSON COOPER: Im Anderson Cooper.
BYRON PITTS: Im Byron Pitts.
DAVID MARTIN: Im David Martin.
SHARYN ALFONSI: Im Sharyn Alfonsi.
OPRAH WINFREY: Im Oprah Winfrey.
BILL WHITAKER: Im Bill Whitaker. Tonight, 50 years of 60 minutes. (ticking)
RUSH: If you can put 50 years of 60 Minutes in 60 minutes, there must not have been much happening in the 50 years. But they tried it. They left somebody out and it was obvious that they didnt include somebody. So we did.
MIKE WALLACE: Im Mike Wallace.
HARRY REASONER: Im Harry Reasoner.
MORLEY SAFER: Im Morley Safer.
CHARLIE ROSE: Im Charlie Rose.
DAN RATHER: Im Dan Rather.
ED BRADLEY: Im Ed Bradley.
DIANE SAWYER: Im Diane Sawyer.
CHARLIE ROSE: Im Charlie Rose.
STEVE KROFT: Im Steve Kroft.
MEREDITH VIEIRA: Im Meredith Vieira.
LESLEY STAHL: Im Lesley Stahl.
CHARLIE ROSE: Im Charlie Rose.
BOB SIMON: Im Bob Simon.
SCOTT PELLEY: Im Scott Pelley.
KATIE COURIC: Im Katie Couric.
CHARLIE ROSE: Im Charlie Rose.
LARA LOGAN: Im Lara Logan.
ANDERSON COOPER: Im Anderson Cooper.
BYRON PITTS: Im Byron Pitts.
DAVID MARTIN: Im David Martin.
CHARLIE ROSE: Im Charlie Rose.
SHARYN ALFONSI: Im Sharyn Alfonsi.
OPRAH WINFREY: Im Oprah Winfrey.
BILL WHITAKER: Im Bill Whitaker.
CHARLIE ROSE: Im Charlie Rose.
CHARLIE ROSE: Im Charlie Rose.
CHARLIE ROSE: Im Charlie Rose.
RUSH: (laughing) How can you do this and leave out Charlie Rose? He was there. They knew who he was. They left him out. How conspicuous is that? This is not an admission? So we thought it was a disservice to Charlie and his contributions to 60 Minutes and CBS. So we put him back in there.
RUSH: TIME magazine Person of the Year. Let me find this. Ive got something on this in the Stack here, if I can find the Stack. I got it. I think I got it. I got it. Do I? I got it. Do you know what they announced? Do you know who the Person of the Year is at TIME magazine? (interruption) What? It is not some group of women. It is the silence breakers. It is the women of Weinstein and the Democrats sexual harassment. Its Ashley Judd. Its all of these women. Its not Trump.
TIME has named all of these women who have come forward and acknowledged that theyve been abused, harassed, or even raped as the silence breakers: the individuals who set off a national reckoning over the prevalence of sexual harassment in the Democratic Wait, I added that. They didnt say that. Thats their 2017 Person of the Year. Do you know where they announced this? On the Today show! (laughing) They announced it on the Today show, and they did it with Hoda Kotb. Its audio sound bite number 11 in three two one
IME Person Of The Year Revealed: The Silence Breakers
KOTB: Its time for the big reveal. Who is TIMEs Person of the Year?
FELSENTHAL: The 2017 Person of the Year is The Silence Breakers: The Voices That Launched a Movement. This is the fastest moving social change weve seen in decades. And it began with individual acts of courage by hundreds of women and some men, too who came forward to tell their own stories of sexual harassment and assault.
RUSH: That is whats his name, Edward Felsenthal. Hes the editor-in-chief at TIME magazine. Savannah Guthrie, wanting to get in on the action here, said (summarized), Look, the runner-up is President Trump. Now, first of all, whats your rationale here, and second of all, hes tweeted that TIME wanted him to be Person of the Year and that he rejected you. He said TIME wanted him but he told you to go pound sand. Is that true?
FELSENTHAL: Well, hes number two on our list because he he has changed the very nature of the presidency and and the way the White House functions. Hes on the verge of his first major legislative victory. Hes reshaping the judiciary and aggressively rolling back regulations.
RUSH: Now, let me look for Nope, nothing there about TIME. See, he didnt answer the question about whether Trump was telling the truth that they begged him to be Person of the Year and he told them to go pound sand so TIME chose the women. Now, theres one more on this. Little Brian Stelter, the media guru and analyst at TIME magazine spoke with Poppy Harlow, infobabe at CNN. She said, Thousands of women stood up, spoke out, and said, Me too. Their battle cry against decades of sexual harassment landed them as TIME magazines Person of the Year. The magazines cover memorializing the silence breakers. The runner-up, President Trump, and a few others. Our senior media correspondent Brian Stelter is here.
STELTER: Its a year that started with a womens march and ends with this cover, with silence breakers. You know, its been exactly two months since the New York Times
RUSH: Wait a minute. Hold it a minute. Hold a The year began with a womens march? What year is he talking about? Is he talking about the vagina hats? Well, that began with Trump being elected. What the hell is this, the year began with a womens march? Oh, well, play the thing anyway. Doesnt matter.
STELTER: landed that first Harvey Weinstein story. Only two months since that scandal erupted, and weve seen dozens of allegations against dozens of powerful men since. [N]otice theres an arm that sticks out there in the corner of the cover. Its for the next woman who may come forward. If 2017 was about the silence being broken, 2018 has to be about systemic change. And to that point, I just put up a story on CNN.com about Mark Halperin accusers
HARLOW: Yes!
STELTER: and Charlie Rose accusers coming together
HARLOW: Coming together!
STELTER: forming a support group, forming a coalition. They want to see change in television newsrooms.
RUSH: Right. Link this to Trump? Oh, well. Heres the thing about this, folks. In all candor, in all honesty, in all objectivity as an analyst: This is huge. This is earth-shattering huge. These revelations, the people that have been taken down, the people whove been exposed by this? This is monumental. The outing of all of these paragons, all of these so-called stars and heroes, self-appointed arbiters of courage and of morality. I mean, this is big. All of these people outed and taken down after having massively degraded women and young boys? Im sure the media would have loved for this to have been about Trump.
They wish that the Person of the Year could be the media for destroying Trump. But the media didnt do this. You cant tell me that Weinstein was not known until the New York Times published a few months ago. These people were all widely known.
And Ill tell you something else. If Hillary Clinton had been elected, this would not have happened. If Hillary Clinton had been elected, Harvey Weinstein I was not joking he would be sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom after paying for it with massive donations. And he and Bill would still be running around doing whatever theyve always done.
Harvey Weinstein, there would not have been a story. There would have been no need. The Democrats and the media would have been deliriously happy. We would not have had a single one of these sexual harassment stories break. Not a one of them if Hillary Clinton had won. And thats just one of the many things that we could cite as evidence of how important the Trump victory was.
As it is, the only reason this stuff came out now is because the media is hell-bent on getting Trump. And the calculation was made that if theyre gonna get Trump, theyve gotta throw Clinton overboard, Bill Clinton and Monica, and expose some of these other things. NBC had this story a year ago on Harvey Weinstein, and they dropped it because they knew that their number one anchor on the Today show was doing the same kind of stuff, and they had to cover that up!
Donald Trump being elected has shaken up everything like a cocktail shaker. And these people are discombobulated and dont know what to do about it. If Hillary Clinton had won, we would not have a revived economy, we would not have any of the changes weve had on the border, none of the things that people are optimistic about. The economy, the job market, the overall economic confidence, none of this would be happening right now.
I frankly dont know what kind of mood I would be in. I probably would be asking myself, What is the point showing up here every day? I mean, really, four more years of, Come on, folks, hang in there, we can do it. Whos gonna feel like it? Half the audience would be on the way to New Zealand or Singapore. (interruption) You have a question? The Official Program Observer has a question. The Silence Breakers, big story, you say, yeah, about the sexual harassment. Yeah. (interruption) Well, Im not trying to denigrate Trump. I think this is big. Trump was Person of the Year last year, wasnt he? Not like hes being slighted. Wasnt he? (interruption) Okay, fine. Arguably worldwide Trump has made the biggest Trump is the reason this happened, in fact.
Trump being elected is why all these dominoes are falling. Im not denying that. But normally a TIME magazine Person of the Year selection is an abject joke. Like the climate or like the computer or like something or other. This is not insignificant. Thats all Im saying. I think this is a big deal, all of this behavior been going on in the workplace, and not the least because of who it is, folks. Its the phonies among us. The people that have been preaching to us about being phony prudes and dont sit in judgment of other people, making fun of people who try to live a decent life.
The people making these filth movies and trying to foster them on everybody. Look whos gotten caught up in this. You cant turn harassment into a partisan I didnt. It is what it is! I mean, its undeniable. Im not suggesting that Trump would not have been a valid choice. Im just saying this one I do think was earth-shattering.
Look at the Democrat resignations. I think its gonna be a blowback too. I think the pendulums gonna go too far one way. Theres gonna be a little bit of an overreaction to this. But it will balance out. Look, I have to take another time-out. Theres some other things I want to get to here. I didnt intend to spend this much time on it, but the program observer asked me a waste of time question, and I had to answer it.
Rush must drive CBS and the 60 Minutes thugs crazy.
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