America 2009: A Banana Republic
Press Falls for Yet Another Hoax
RUSH: Do you remember the story yesterday we had about how Reuters, CNN, the
Washington Post, and New York Times fell for a hoax? Yesterday we thought that
it was just an e-mail hoax that they fell for. The hoax was perpetrated by
some group that as a practice perpetrates hoaxes on the media. (interruption)
Is that the name of the group? Yes Men. And they sent an e-mail out claiming
that they were the Chamber of Commerce, that they had done a 180 and Chamber of
Commerce was now ready to join Obama on cap and trade, and it was false. It was
a total hoax. They didn't check it; they didn't backtrack it; they didn't
track it down; they didn't source it; they just accepted the e-mail. Folks, we
learn today it's even worse. They had a press conference. The hoax group had
a press conference. Yesterday in Washington, the National Press Club, US
Chamber of Commerce Director of Communications Eric Wohlschlegel interrupted a
fake press conference being held by a man calling himself Hingo Sembra,
purportedly with the Chamber. You'll also hear an unidentified reporter in
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WOHLSCHLEGEL: I'm with the US Chamber of Commerce. This is not an official US
Chamber of Commerce event, so I don't know under what pretenses you're here. I
know some of you in the press world, but this is a fraudulent press activity
and a stunt.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Who are you really, sir?
WOHLSCHLEGEL: So, if you have any questions, you're welcome to direct them to
me at the US Chamber of Commerce. This guy does not represent the US Chamber
of Commerce.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Can we finish?
WOHLSCHLEGEL: No. This is not an official Chamber of Commerce -- this is not
--
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: I'm on a deadline.
WOHLSCHLEGEL: Yeah. Got it. So they're misrepresenting the US Chamber of
Commerce.
SEMBRA: Sir, if you want to have a --
WOHLSCHLEGEL: If anyone has any questions, you want to talk to the real
Chamber of Commerce, they can direct -- direct your questions to me.
RUSH: Can I translate this for you here? There's a fake press conference from
somebody claiming to be from the US Chamber of Commerce and they're not. The
real Chamber of Commerce communications director shows up and says, "This guy
is not who he says he is, he doesn't represent the Chamber, I do." The
reporter says, "Shut up, we got a deadline, I need to finish asking this guy
questions." Unidentified reporters wanted to continue talking to the hoaxer.
Unidentified reporters wanted proof from the Chamber of Commerce guy that he
was the real Chamber of Commerce guy. This is amazing. They're in the middle
of being hoaxed and they want to continue to fall for the hoax because the
hoaxer is telling them what they want to hear. The hoaxer is saying, "I'm from
the Chamber and we have turned around, we're going to support cap and trade."
That's what the media wanted to hear in the press conference. The real Chamber
of Commerce guy, "This is a fraud, this guy is not speaking for the Chamber of
Commerce. If you want to know anything about it, talk to me." "Well, wait a
minute, shut up, I'm on a deadline here, I want to finish my questions to the
guy."
Once again words escape me. Words escape me. I know this is funny, and I know
it's hilarious, but it has horrible portends. In just a matter of a week we
have seen mainstream media accept total lies, total fabricated quotes made up
about me. Now we see mainstream media preferring to talk to a hoax leader of
the Chamber of Commerce, a hoaxer, rather than talk to the real communications
director of the Chamber of Commerce. And this is in the midst of Len Downie
saying, "Oh, we're in trouble here in the news business," and the New York
Times laying off a hundred more people in the newsroom -- that's 200 people, by
the way, in the last year -- "oh, we're in big trouble here in the news
business, we need to go nonprofit, we can't earn a profit." I wonder why the
hell that might be, Mr. Downie. It's because your business is now populated
with a bunch of idiot boob fools. Holy smokes, folks, it's just mind-blowing.
RUSH: Let me ask you a question, then. Let's use the New York Times as an
example. New York City has eight million people, about 7.9 million of them
liberal. How in the world can the New York Times' journalism be disappointing
the liberal Mecca of this country? I'm not... It's just a think piece. I just
want your thoughts on this. I can understand where you live in Tucson you're
going to have a much greater cross section of conservatives and liberals and so
if the conservatives get fed up with the liberalism of the Tucson papers, bam!
You're going to and so are a lot of other people. But I don't know that people
are not buying the New York Times because it's not liberal enough or because
it's too liberal or because it's not anti-conservative enough. I don't know.
You tell me.
CALLER: I'll tell you easily. It's a matter of slant. Slant is a way and
perspective of seeing things, and it is a matter of them being able to listen
to the propaganda they want to hear.
RUSH: Have you ever read the letters...?
CALLER: (unintelligible)
RUSH: Have you ever...?
CALLER: (unintelligible)
RUSH: Wait a minute. Have you ever read letters to the editor of the New York
Times?
CALLER: Oh, yes, definitely.
RUSH: Well, every damn one of them is far more radical, wacko, and leftist
than the people who work there!
CALLER: Heh, heh. Absolutely.
RUSH: They love the slant of the New York Times, whatever it is -- editorial
page front page, no difference any more -- and yet the New York Times is losing
circulation. And the New York Times is losing advertising revenue. Now, also
this Little Pinch went out and spent a lot of New York Times money building a
monument to himself, the new Times building. They've got some debt problems
there and they invested in the Boston Red Sox a little bit and they bought the
Boston Globe. But I don't know that the Times is in trouble because of its
content because 99% of its market loves its content. So there's gotta be
something else going on with the Times: Bad business decisions, operating
decisions and so forth.
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