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<div class="">By <strong>Brandon Griggs</strong>, CNN</div>
<div class="">updated 12:31 PM EDT, Mon August 5, 2013 | Filed under: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/mobile/archive/" class="">Mobile</a>
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<div class=""><div class="">Right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh: "Nine out of 10 bloggers writing high-tech hate Apple."</div></div>
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<ul class=""><li>Rush Limbaugh says "9 out of 10 bloggers writing high-tech hate Apple"</li><li>Limbaugh compares Apple to the GOP because both are under attack by liberal media</li><li>Limbaugh: "Google, Android, and Samsung are the equivalent of the Democrats"</li>
<li>Some tech reporters questioned Limbaugh's knowledge of the tech landscape</li></ul>
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<p><strong>(CNN)</strong> -- Apple, that icon of left-leaning Silicon
Valley whose board of directors includes former Democratic Vice
President Al Gore, is really a symbol of the Republican Party.</p>
<p class="">Rivals Google and Samsung, meanwhile, are more like Democrats.</p>
<p class="">Got that?</p>
<p class="">This analysis comes
courtesy of Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk-show host, who ventured
into the unfamiliar world of tech punditry last week. On his radio show
Friday, Limbaugh went on a curious rant about how tech bloggers are
overrun with liberals who hate Apple -- not unlike, in his view, how the
mainstream (translation: left-wing) media covers the GOP.</p>
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<p class="">"I would venture to say
that 9 out of 10 bloggers writing high-tech hate Apple. Apple is the
equivalent of the Republicans on these blogs, and Google, Android, and
Samsung are the equivalent of the Democrats. They're perfect, they can't
do anything wrong, they're ideal, and everybody hates Apple," he said, <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/08/02/tech_blogs_start_noticing_media_bias" target="_blank">according to a transcript posted on his website</a>.</p>
<p class="">Limbaugh added this
opinion of tech bloggers: "I'd say most of them vote Democrat. Most of
them think they're young and hip, pop culture hip. That's high-tech, of
course it would be. Republicans to them are probably aliens from Mars,
racists, sexists, bigot homophobes."</p>
<p class="">The right-wing
commentator went on to accuse pro-Google, pro-Samsung bloggers of
"faking data, faking news to make it look bad for Apple when it really
isn't." He added that a small minority of pro-Apple bloggers are
starting to write about this "media bias," even though "they don't
understand it."</p>
<p class="">Limbaugh offered no explanation for why so-called liberal bloggers would favor Google and Samsung over Apple.</p>
<p class="">His comments prompted some head-scratching among tech reporters who questioned Limbaugh's knowledge of the tech-media landscape.</p>
<p class="">"Yes, there are certain
bloggers who obviously favor one company or another," wrote Chris
Matyszczyk for CNET. "But the idea that 9 out of 10 bloggers regularly
toss rancid red tomatoes at Apple, while Tim Cook is trapped in the
stocks and pleading for his life, seems a trifle stretched."</p>
<p class="">Others took issue with
Limbaugh comparing Apple to the Republican Party. While Apple has
evolved from a scrappy, counterculture startup into a wealthy
corporation that's a darling of Wall Street, it's been more historically
aligned with left-leaning causes. Its late co-founder, Steve Jobs,
often expressed support for Democratic candidates.</p>
<p class="">And still others poked
fun at Limbaugh's comment, in describing the tech sites he reads, that
"some of these blogs have actual websites."</p>
<p class="">"I dunno about anyone else, but when I want a real nuanced take on the tech industry, I go to Limbaugh," said <a href="https://twitter.com/tsayguy" target="_blank">Henry Tsay</a> on Twitter.</p>
<p class="">"Rush Limbaugh says that
Apple is like the Republican Party. That grinding sound you hear is
coming from Steve Jobs' grave," added Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/brandg" target="_blank">Brand Gamblin</a>.</p>
<p class="">When asked by a listener to identify which tech sites and bloggers he was talking about, Limbaugh declined.</p>
<p class="">"Folks, I've thought
about it, and there's nothing to be gained by it. If I call 'em out, all
they're gonna do is get happy that I'm giving them attention ... it's
not gonna change them," he said. "They don't need more readers. The more
readers they have, the more damage they would do."</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<br><a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a><br><br><img src="http://users.moscow.com/waf/WP%20Fox%2001.jpg"><br>
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