Rush Limbaugh

The White House press corps isn\'t there at a press briefing. It\'s not... They\'re not news gatherers there. There really isn\'t any media.

Did the media ever question anything about Obamacare, the intricate do\'s and don\'ts, the policy cogs? No.[Barack] Obama just wanted it.

Take [the first female] president away from Hillary [Clinton], what\'s her story? What is fascinating? What\'s interesting about Hillary? Coughing fits? The lump in her throat that she has to cover with the Mao jacket? What\'s her story?

The world\'s always been run by women.

The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.

Going forward, which story will the media find more interesting, [Donald] Trump\'s or Hillary\'s [Clinton]? Does Hillary even have a story? Does anyone even care?

That\'s what the news is: You turn on the news every night, whatever you watch, and you\'re expecting to see things that you didn\'t know happened. And that\'s not what it is.

Look at how many victim groups there are. And they all happen to be Democrat constituency groups. They all are on the protest march. They\'re all angry; they\'re all enraged.

Hillary Clinton represented \"America is over\" to the people that voted, and they\'re never gonna understand this, the people in the media in Washington, in the establishment.

This is how we honor 53 dead, innocent people who had nothing to do with their deaths. They just were in the wrong place at the wrong time, when a bigot decided to take \'em out. And all of a sudden we\'re judging the aftermath as to whether or not [Barack] Obama\'s an effective president? For crying out loud!

How the media covers [Donald] Trump-Hillary [Clinton]? Who knows yet how it\'s gonna manifest itself, but I guarantee you a lot of people are thinking - and I made the prediction. Well, it\'s not a prediction, but I said, folks, it\'s entirely possible that the media will continue to be sort of hands off on [Donald] Trump.

The media traditionally is simply an arm of the Democrat Party that is used in service of advancing the Democrat Party agenda, and the Republicans haven\'t come up with a way of having a more engaging, entertaining story because the Republican story is never anything other than, \"We don\'t want Democrat X to have what he wants.\"

The MacGuffin in that [Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky story] was [Bill] Clinton staying in office. That\'s what he wanted, and the media was hell-bent that he was gonna get what he wanted.

Have you ever noticed the Democrats always set the agenda? Whatever the Democrats say they want, that\'s just what\'s gonna happen. There\'s no questioning the policy!

\"First female president.\" That\'s it, and that\'s nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first African-American president. I mean, women, yeah, I mean, make the case that they\'ve been victimized. But they can\'t put themselves in the same shoes as slavery\'s legacy for example. Now, women might try to make the case. Hillary [Clinton] might try to make the case about not being ought to be able to vote, but it ain\'t gonna fly.

There\'s always a villain in every book, in every movie. In every story you have the hero and what he wants, and that is the MacGuffin. The whole thing is about who\'s gonna get the MacGuffin. This piece that this Ace of Spades blog wrote is that\'s how the media covers [Barack] Obama, and I have observed this in different ways over the years.

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can\'t trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.

One primary reason is, [Donald Trump\'s] supporters didn\'t care - and, in fact (and frustratingly so), his supporters ate it up. His supporters loved it.

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn\'t any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don\'t know and telling us what they are.

The details of what [Barack] Obama was going to do to the American health care system didn\'t matter. All that mattered was whether or not Obama was going to get it.

I checked the emails the same theme that I could summarize them. \"Rush, whatever you\'re talking about here - [Donald] Trump, you talk about the Republicans, [Barack] Obama and so forth - nothing\'s gonna change with the media the way it is. And all of it is academic, Rush. You know it\".

The media would love to be able to ignore Donald Trump, but they don\'t dare. He draws too big a crowd. They\'ve done everything they can that they usually do when they try to take a candidate out, or anybody else they want to take out. None of it works.

[Donald Trump] puts a miner\'s hat on.The media, some in it, were concerned - or hoping - that Trump would have helmet hair when he took the helmet off. They were hoping that he had so much hair spray on, that the miner\'s helmet he was wearing would leave an indentation in his hair. That was actually a subject in some of the stories I read. So the MacGuffin... There\'s no media. There isn\'t any news.

Donald Trump has pulled something off that I have never seen pulled off. And it is, I think, at the root of the frustration that Republican consultants and the Republican establishment and anybody else in the Republican Party has that is anti-Trump, and that is: Donald Trump owns the media.

The media can\'t take Trump out, and that scares the heck out of everybody, particularly in the Republican side.

Of course [the White House press corps] are a factor, and the reason is they\'re not media. They happen to pretend or portray people running around finding out things nobody else knows and telling everybody, but that\'s not what they do.

I know Donald Trump; he\'s a winner; he\'s committed; and he has intended all along to do what he thinks is necessary to save America.

Being a victim is almost as easy as being a liberal. It\'s one of the most gutless choices you could make.

I just think the more the media uses their time-honored blueprint techniques to destroy Republican politicians... It hasn\'t worked on Trump yet, and they\'ve been trying it a year and a half, folks. We\'re dangerously close here to the definition of insanity: \"Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.\" It\'s not Trump who\'s insane. Trump\'s having the time of his life.