Corrupt media hiding secret about Dayton shooter, says Limbaugh

People who get their news only from establishment media "know" many things that don't comport with reality, talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners on Wednesday.

Limbaugh was reacting to a caller who said, "Everybody knows the Dayton shooter said that he was anti-Trump."

"No, everybody doesn't know it," the talk host said, referring to the young man who murdered nine people in the Ohio city over the weekend.

"The people watching mainstream media don't know it. They 'know' an entirely different thing – 'know' in quotes," said Limbaugh. "They are being lied to about the Dayton shooter, and they're being lied to about the El Paso shooter, and they're being lied to about Trump each and every day."

Limbaugh asked: "What percentage of people that watch the Drive-By Media fall for all of it and never question it?"

He pointed to the New York Times' decision yesterday to change a headline that cast President Trump in a positive light after complaints from readers.

"You know, the reaction the New York Times got the other day is fascinating to me in one sense, because the consumers of the New York Times do not consider it the truth," Limbaugh said.

He said the Times plays the role of a "propaganda sheet."

"The same people who hate Fox News and want to shut down Fox News look at the New York Times identically," he said. "They don't look at it as citadel of journalism. They don't read the New York Times to find out what’s really going on with the truth. They read the New York Times because to them, it's their daily propaganda affirmation."

On Monday, the Times change the headline of a story on Trump's comments on the Ohio and Texas shootings.

The original "Trump urges unity vs. racism" became the much more negative "Assailing hate but not guns."

"When the Times strays like it did yesterday with that headline that did not condemn Trump as a white supremacist or racist, they flooded the place with claims and threats to cancel subscriptions," Limbaugh said.

"What did the Times do? The Times didn't stand up and say, 'Screw you! We are the deans of journalism! We are in charge of our product each and every day. We determine what's in our paper, not you.' No. They didn't say that. They reached over and they grabbed the ankles as quickly as they could and they changed that headline, because the Times confirmed that they are the propaganda sheet for the insane radical left."

"I don’t think there is any journalism out there. I think there are simply people disguised as journalists who are active political activists moving the Democrat agenda forward under the guise of journalism," he said.

"But that little episode with the New York Times illustrated that the readers of that paper don't think they're reading journalism. They don't think they're learning what happened somewhere where they weren't. They're getting their daily affirmation of propaganda, indoctrination, whatever, of what they believe."