There are few that can compete with conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh when it comes to dissecting the left’s nonsense on a daily basis. So this past week, he was in usual form as he lambasted the liberal media who exist to “destroy” the Trump presidency through their “leadership role of the American left” despite CNN’s horrid ratings thanks to how they’ve “bastardized the concept of journalism.”

On Monday’s show, Limbaugh took aim at the fake news spread about the President and Meghan Markle by noting that, for the press, accuracy “doesn’t matter” because they’re “doing nothing more than trying to destroy” Trump’s “reputation” and “presidency.”

Limbaugh also spent time on the case of the Daily Beast doxxing a private citizen who was behind the edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, noting that “this reporter’s out there now taking kudos and everybody’s praising him for great reporting” like “Little Brian Stelter” even though Facebook gave him the assist in providing the man’s information.

Moving to Tuesday, Limbaugh elaborated on an article by Breitbart’s John Nolte that chronicled CNN’s pathetic ratings. Limbaugh told listeners that while he usually avoids this sort of “inside baseball” talk, this was different “because CNN has so bastardized the concept of journalism and news that CNN is now considered to be — and, actually, not just CNN.”

“But the whole of the mainstream media is now considered to be not journalism and not really media. It’s just a massively large and maybe leadership role of the American left,” he astutely added.

Later after he pointed out how CNN has “tak[en] no steps to reverse this whatsoever in any way, shape, manner, or form,” Limbaugh climbed inside the minds of CNN’s Resistance-rabid viewers (click “expand”):

They’re absent red meat. I mean that audience is not tuning into these networks because they have relationships with the hosts, ’cause the doesn’t matter who’s hosting. They’re tuning in because they need the red meat. They need to hear how Trump’s gone. They need to hear how Trump’s history. They need to hear how Trump’s going to jail. And when that stops happening, there’s no more reason to listen to it. If you’ve been getting a steady diet of it for two years from CNN, you’ve gotta be throwing up your hands up in total frustration. “For crying out loud, you’ve been telling me this guy’s the biggest reprobate there, and he’s still there and the queen just threw a big dinner for him!”...They hate the guy, and they’re not masking that, but their audiences are getting worn out because it’s not making anything change. So their audience is basically a bunch of activists, and the activists at these cable networks are not getting anything done....I have long maintained that CNN International is providing the funding, the advertising income for CNN domestic to operate, because they can’t be making it on their own here with ratings this low.

While some might think CNN’s declining ratings signals a broader tumble for the left, Limbaugh warned that “it means the opposite” as all flanks remain as committed as ever to spreading progressivism and removing Trump from office.

Sounds about right for those at CNN who, as Tim Graham illustrated last week, have gone all-in with a bunker and robotic mentality. Must be Jeffrey Zucker.

At any rate, Limbaugh was speaking Wednesday afternoon with caller Susan in Richmond, Virginia when he noted that “[t]his whole Trump-Russia collusion thing has brought out into the open who they really are and have always been,” which are devoted members of “the deep state or the administrative state.”

But Limbaugh went deeper as he made an outstanding point about the media not actually being journalists but groups hiding behind the free press clause of the Constitution (click “expand”):

They are not actually media, Susan. They get to operate under the constitutional protections of media, but they don’t really do journalism. It literally is nothing more than political activism. Yeah, they’ve got some reporters that go out and do stories. They stand up in the snow and tell you it’s snowing and that you shouldn’t do it. And they go out there and they trash fossil fuel companies and so forth. But basically, everything they’re doing, one way or the other, is simply moving forward what the agenda is of the Democrat Party and the American left, and they do it disguised as journalism, which makes it even more hideous because it covers and masks their activism as legitimate truth telling. And it isn’t that. And that’s what’s plain as day for anybody to see now since these last two years have happened. There’s no getting rid of them. I mean, what can we do to take our country back? There’s no reforming the media.

And when Susan expressed concern about people on the right like Limbaugh and Trump taking heat versus their supporters, Limbaugh reminded her that “[i]f you had a microphone, you’d be taking hits too” and even then they still try to. Ask the Covington kids or even the man behind the Pelosi video and it’s a safe bet they’d concur.

To see the relevant transcript from The Rush Limbaugh Show from June 4 to June 6, click “expand.”