Well, Rush repeated that line numerous times during the show in as a spoof of this sort of “cult of personality” that is so unusual in democratic countries. It became immediately apparent that Katty Kay was totally unaware of the context and use the occasion to accuse Rush of being “insidious.”
KAY: I don't think it is. After, you know, listening to that Rush Limbaugh clip again and I don't think I want to hear it, really, for a fourth or fifth time, is that it's not Barack Obama, it's Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama. There's something insidious going on there, too, in the repetition of his middle name.
RUSH: Just unbelievable. This is a member in good standing of the State-Controlled Media and she thinks I'm out there, "Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm." She does not realize that a bunch of school kids in New Jersey and across the country are being forced to learn songs and poems in praise of the dear leader such as...
Here are the word to the song:
SCHOOLKIDS: He said that all must lend a hand to make this country strong again. Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama. He said we must be fair today, equal work means equal pay. Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama. He said we all must take a stand, to make sure everyone gets a chance. Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama.
And here is Rush’s analysis of the media “bubble.”
RUSH: All right, that's enough, that's enough. Now, I must acknowledge that Katty Kay certainly does not watch Fox News, which is the only place the video aired. We aired the audio here, but she's clueless. She has no idea of the story, zip, zero, nada. Katty Kay, BBC America, has no idea that schoolchildren across America are being propagandized and indoctrinated to support personally the dear leader, Barack Hussein Obama. So when I mock this and have fun with it, she thinks I am being derisive of insidious, insidious, insidious, I don't want to hear Limbaugh again, I heard it four or five times, I don't want to hear it again.
But I think “bubble” is not the right word. It implies at least seeing one another. The MSM in this country simply don’t see anything outside their closed universe, while we see their universe clearly. I call it the One-Way-Mirror cage. They can’t see out but we can see in.
In fact we can’t help but see in. We read them and watch them perform their acts daily. It is the culture in which we live. Whenever we pick up the paper we know what they think. When we turn on the news, when we watch the comedy shows, when we go to the movies, when we check the internet we bathe in their views. It’s as omnipresent as the water surrounding a fish.
One recent example from the Virginian Pilot. The editor of their editorial page, Donald Luzatto, wrote an op-ed about the term “death panels.” He inveighed against the term – stating that doctors being paid to counsel elderly patients about dying is not setting up death panels. He was totally oblivious to that fact that this was not the aspect of the health care legislation that was being characterized as representing death panels. This despite millions of words being printed in the conservative press, on the Internet and on talk radio. The sad fact is that publisher, writers and editors of the Virginian Pilot – literally no one there – could prevent Donny Luzatto from displaying his ignorance.
There does not seem to be an answer to this. The proliferation of information channels allows us to get our news and analysis from so many different sources that we can now create a “news island” for ourselves. In the past it was assumed that the professional press would have the means and the desire to visit these islands and synthesize it. Unfortunately what happened is that the MSM created its own island which we can view but from which they cannot see anyone else.
We are living in Maxwell Smart’s world of media.
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