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Limbaugh: Media Just Proved Me Right About NYT’s Trump Agenda

John Bickley
Limbaugh: Media Just Proved Me Right About NYT’s Trump Agenda
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On his talk radio program Friday, Rush Limbaugh took a few minutes to highlight a development in the media he predicted a few days ealier: other media outlets would follow The New York Times’ newly revealed agenda for the next two years of Donald Trump’s presidency — focusing on racism in America.

Last week, Slate published the transcript of an internal “crisis town hall meeting” among the Times staff in which the paper’s lead editor, Dean Baquet, proudly admitted to the staff that “we built our newsroom to cover one story,” Trump’s alleged “collusion” with Russia. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation having blown that narrative to pieces, Baquet laid out a new “vision” for the paper. “Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story,” he said. That story? How Trump has “divided” the country by supposedly promoting racial division.

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