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RUSH: You know, it\u2019s… Well, I was gonna say it\u2019s fascinating. It\u2019s not fascinating. It was just interesting all week along, ladies and gentlemen. When I got back here on Tuesday, one of the first things I did was reference a piece I\u2019d stumbled across on Saturday written by Andrew McCarthy at National Review Online<\/a> about how the media treats what goes on in Washington as a soap opera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You have probably heard me reference this, and it\u2019s worth repeating. A soap opera is unreal but it hooks viewers with never-ending suspense and drama and cliffhangers and heroes and villains. But the important thing is, it is a device that is designed to hook an audience to escape whatever the humdrum reality they face, just like sports is. By the way, speaking of that, there\u2019s a great piece.<\/p>\n

Somebody said what I have been trying to say. This burns me up when this happens, by the way, \u2019cause I think of myself as a primo communicator. I think it\u2019s Daniel Flynn. We\u2019ve interviewed him for the Limbaugh Letter<\/a>. He\u2019s written a lot about NFL, how it\u2019s changing. It\u2019s a real simple line, and you know, I must have talked this for days combined, and I coulda said it all with this one line. I wish I had said it. “Football has not grown too rough; society has grown too soft.” <\/line><\/p>\n

<\/a>That\u2019s really it. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on. Football hasn\u2019t changed. It\u2019s the same as it\u2019s always been. We\u2019re just turning in… It\u2019s the chickification of things. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve meant by it: We\u2019re going soft. Nothing against women. I mean, it\u2019s actually a compliment in a way. But all the touchy-feely taking the manliness out of things. It\u2019s exactly what happens, and it\u2019s happening not just in football, but a lot of places. But that\u2019s not the main thing I want to talk about. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll get to that in due course. I\u2019m gonna try to rein in my stream of consciousness here. Back to the soap opera business. Because I\u2019m telling you, that is just a perfect characterization. It is not real. The characters are not real when you get down to it. The way they\u2019re covered is not real. In the impact of every item in the news supposedly covered by the media, the impact on people is never talked about. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s simply always put within the context of the suspense and the drama of the soap opera that is Washington, DC, and our government and the people in it. So what\u2019s happening? What\u2019s happening is, the bottom is falling out of Obamacare. He\u2019s losing women. He\u2019s losing the Millennials. Nobody — I don\u2019t care what kind of numbers they give you, nobody is signing up anywhere near in the numbers necessary to keep this thing going. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s an absolute disaster. It\u2019s worse than even they want to admit. And so what? We\u2019re back to “income inequality,” and now that\u2019s the big story. Income inequality and the minimum wage. It\u2019s amazing how this happens. Thirty-six hours ago income inequality was not on anybody\u2019s mind. Thirty-six hours ago income inequality, minimum wage, nobody was thinking about it. <\/p>\n

But here comes our lead protagonist, President “Barack Hussein Obama, Mmm, mmm, mmm!” who — as the hopeful hero but the current villain in the soap opera — needs to change the subject. He\u2019s not used to this kind of coverage treatment, not experienced with being involved in things that don\u2019t work, losing the favor of “the audience,” not the people. So we\u2019ve got a pivot on a dime, and now no matter where you go, everybody in the media follows suit.<\/p>\n

A bunch of sheep! <\/p>\n

“Oh, the president wants to talk about minimum wage? Okay! Here\u2019s what this think tank think about it. Here\u2019s what they have been thinking about it, written about it for 35 years. Let\u2019s recycle it — and let\u2019s recycle what everybody\u2019s been saying for 30 on income inequality. Let\u2019s just recycle that.” It isn\u2019t news. It is an agenda. It\u2019s amazing. They played this Stradivarius, and everybody falls in line with it, and now you would think it\u2019s the only issue there is.<\/p>\n

Thirty-six hours ago the whole notion of income inequality — in terms of what\u2019s being talked about in Washington, what\u2019s on people\u2019s minds and what to tackle next as an issue, nobody was thinking about it. And the minimum wage, nobody. All of a sudden Obama, our hero\/villain, needs a change of subject. So they go to the writers. They went to the writers and said, “We need to change the script. We\u2019re losing audience here with our primary attraction, Obamacare.” <\/p>\n

“Oh, okay. Let\u2019s go back to something that polls really well: The minimum wage. Let\u2019s say we\u2019re for raising that again! That always works.” If you look at polling data on the minimum wage, 70% of the big-hearted American people will always tell you, “Yeah, it ought to be more.” They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. They don\u2019t know what they actually mean. They\u2019re simply responding emotionally: The minimum wage should be raised. Yes. Yes. Everybody should make more money. Fine.<\/line><\/p>\n

“It polls well. Let\u2019s go back, and let\u2019s put our hero on the side of raising the minimum wage, and let\u2019s revive the villains who have become the heroes. The anti-Obamacare people, the Republicans, the Ted Cruzs, the Rush Limbaughs.” Everybody that had been advocating against Obamacare have become the heroes. “Can\u2019t have that! Let\u2019s now convert them back to villains, and let\u2019s make Obama and the Democrats the heroes again. Let\u2019s trot out the minimum wage.” <\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing that I can tell you about the minimum wage that I haven\u2019t told you in 25 years. Philosophically, factually, statistically, strategerically, there\u2019s nothing new. It\u2019s still nothing more than a political device. The minimum wage has not made poor people richer. It has not elevated the lives of poor people. It doesn\u2019t work that way. It never has, and that\u2019s not its purpose, really. <\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t matter, because the misperceptions and the emotional attachment to it is what gets recycled, and always works. What also always works is this income inequality. “We\u2019ll attach that to the minimum wage! We\u2019ll have a new story, and then you know what we\u2019ll do? We will have a strategy session at the White House and we\u2019ll plan a strike by fast-food workers, and that will give our friends in the media some visuals of people in pain and angry and agitated — not at Obama, and not at HealthCare.gov, but at people in the private sector. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s simply time to change the focus of the script, and it\u2019s so damn predictable, and I\u2019m not gonna get sucked into it. I\u2019m gonna stay focused here on what\u2019s going wrong with Obamacare, because that\u2019s what\u2019s driving all of this. Now, I do have some fascinating stuff here on the minimum wage and income inequality, and if you want to know where it started, if you want to know where income inequality really began, I\u2019ll tell you.<\/p>\n

The reason all of these stats on income inequality don\u2019t work anymore is because the baseline for the statistical start is the fifties. Now, what was happening in the fifties? Well, in the fifties we had this thing called a nuclear family. There was a mother, a woman. There was a father, a man. They had babies by engaging in coitus. Leave It To Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet — hell, even the Beach Boys, for crying out loud! They were seemingly clean and pure as the wind driven snow. <\/p>\n

Anyway, then after the coitus in the bedroom, then little Beaver was born and then Wally, and there were 2.8 of the kids and little picket fence and (if the dad got a vice presidency), there were two cars in the garage, and mom — the female. I\u2019ve gotta make that distinction. The mother was a woman, the wife of a man. She stays home, raises the kid, fixes breakfast, sends \u2019em off to school, talks to the PTA. There was all that. There was one breadwinner, and there was an economic boom going on at the same time, following World War II. <\/line><\/p>\n

Incomes in America rose dramatically. Then something happened. The left didn\u2019t like that arrangement. That was just bad. They didn\u2019t fit in. They didn\u2019t like the idea of coitus in the bedroom. They didn\u2019t like coitus with someone the opposite sex, necessarily. They didn\u2019t even like coitus as a means of producing a kid. In fact, most times they didn\u2019t even like the kid. They wanted to have the abortion. So what happened was that the nuclear family became under assault by “progressive” forces of modernization. <\/p>\n

So today, you can\u2019t compare family income today to what it was in the fifties when the boom time \u2019cause the family\u2019s not the same. You\u2019ve got single women, single-parent families, fewer nuclear families. Incomes have been divided. It doesn\u2019t work. You can, if you know what you\u2019re doing with statistics, make the point that income inequality is all out of whack, and the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. <\/p>\n

What they don\u2019t tell you is that the primary reason that\u2019s happened is that the left has succeeded in busting up the family. Well, I\u2019ve got the stats. I\u2019ll point ought this out. Because that is something, I think it\u2019s a new perspective. But it\u2019s clear what this is being used as a distraction from Obamacare. It\u2019s once again painting people who are all of a sudden becoming the heroes: The Republicans, conservatives. <\/p>\n

They had been truthful, they were right, warning people about Obamacare. “Can\u2019t have that! No, no, no. These are people that could have a War on Women! These are the people that are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. We can\u2019t have them being seen as heroes. That just doesn\u2019t work. I mean, J.R. Ewing has got to remain J.R. Ewing<\/a>. J.R. Ewing cannot become a good guy or we lose the audience. So we gotta go back to Obama as the hero. He can\u2019t become the bad guy.” <\/p>\n

<\/a>It just doesn\u2019t work, at least as far as the “writers” are concerned (that would be the Democrat National Committee and the White House staff). So you\u2019ve gotta turn it around now and the usual bad guys are the bad guys, and the way you do that is you go back to an issue, and your buddies in the media follow right along \u2019cause they\u2019re nothing more than lapdogs, slavish lap dogs, and they follow right along and create this, out of nowhere, idea that the Republicans hate the poor again. <\/p>\n

Just 36 hours ago, the Republicans were the great friends of the poor trying to make sure they didn\u2019t get left out of Obamacare, or health care. Thirty-six hours later, Republicans hate women again, Republicans hate the poor, Obama once again has the high ground, and we shift from debating the absolute disaster of the entire Obama agenda to what a great compassionate guy Obama is, all of a sudden now concerned about income inequality and the minimum wage. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just amazing to watch this, to watch them change direction, take the audience of people that consume news right along with them. (interruption) Yeah, I know. Obama met secretly with a bunch of left-wing radical pundits and bloggers last week to ask them how to change the subject from the failure of Obamacare. This is what they came up with, I guarantee you. In fact, one of the women leading this march on the fast-food joints attended a strategy session in the White House with Obama about this. <\/p>\n

They did what the left always does when they are in trouble, when the bottom is falling out, when the audience is on the verge of discovering the truth of the villain. The villain always goes back to class warfare, which makes them the hero and turns the Republicans and the conservatives into the villains again — and, I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m worn out. After 25 years, I\u2019m not playing the game, \u2019cause it assumes that you are an idiot. <\/p>\n

The game assumes that you\u2019re nothing more than a lapdog. The game assumes that you\u2019re nothing more than some slavish prisoner to the daily media narrative — and I know, because you listen to this program, that you aren\u2019t. I mean, look, folks, do you think Barack Obama would rather play Santa Claus with the minimum wage or talk about a hundred million Americans set to lose their health care? <\/p>\n

What would he rather do? <\/line><\/p>\n

He\u2019s gonna play Santa Claus with the minimum wage. He\u2019s got no successes to brag about. He cannot talk about a robust job market. In fact, the very fact he\u2019s talking about the minimum wage is evidence there is no robust job market. The fact that Obama talks about a minimum wage is evidence that his economy is the tank, is in the toilet, is in the septic tank. You can\u2019t have a robust economy and all of a sudden start whining and moaning about income inequality and the minimum wage. <\/p>\n

So he\u2019s tantamount admitting to people in the know — and you are among those people in the know — his economy sucks. You can\u2019t talk about the slick rollout of HealthCare.gov. He can\u2019t talk about how you\u2019re saving $2500 on your insurance premium. He can\u2019t talk about how you are able to keep your insurance. He can\u2019t talk about how you\u2019re now able to keep your doctor. All he can do is pivot back and start promising utopia again if only the Republicans would get out of the way. <\/p>\n

The president is tanking in the polls, it\u2019s not going to get any better, so he\u2019s trying to change the subject. The elephant in the newsroom — and that\u2019s exactly the way to look at this. The elephant in the newsroom is the story of 100 million Americans on the verge of losing their health insurance and their doctors in a matter of weeks. Next year is in a matter of weeks. That is the story. That\u2019s the bombshell. It\u2019s the law. The president wants to bury it like a land mine. So he\u2019s out changing the subject and back to playing Santa Claus. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s December. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the minimum wage. It\u2019s income inequality. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to the greatest hits from the Obama Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites. Except I\u2019m changing the station.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Grab sound bite 26. This just came in. This is an illustration. This is Nancy Pelosi. This is this afternoon in Washington, mere moments ago, during a Democrat Steering and Policy Committee hearing on unemployment benefits. Yes, unemployment. The president said yesterday that it\u2019d be a terrible thing if they have to lose their insurance. Insurance? Nobody looks at unemployment compensation as “insurance.” Everybody thought he was talking about health care. He wasn\u2019t. He was talking about unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n

Notice the pivot. <\/p>\n

So right on schedule here is Pelosi\u2019s closing statement, just a little bit of what she said.<\/line><\/p>\n

PELOSI: We cannot — cannot — support a budget agreement that does not include unemployment insurance in the budget or as a sidebar in order to move it all along. It would undermine who we are as a country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Unemployment benefits? That\u2019s who we are as a country? Has anybody even talking about this? So we\u2019re now talking about a budget agreement? We\u2019re talking of a budget agreement, cutting unemployment benefits, raising the minimum wage, income inequality — all overnight, as though it\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s on anybody\u2019s minds. In fact, there\u2019s a Gallup poll. Do you know that nobody cares about income inequality? I have it right here.<\/p>\n

According to a recent Gallup poll, income inequality is, quote, “the most important issue facing the country for just 1% of the population.” That\u2019s it. In a Gallup poll of issues, people being asked what\u2019s the most important thing facing the country, 1% say income inequality. So you put it all together, and you\u2019ve got the recipe. Income inequality! Democrats trying to extend federal unemployment benefits again — which, again, I\u2019m telling you: It is in-your-face evidence that the Obama economy is miserable. <\/p>\n

He wouldn\u2019t be talking about the minimum wage otherwise.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start in San Francisco. This is Chris. Great to have you, sir. Welcome. You are up first today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. <\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s an honor. I just have a quick question. Obama\u2019s pivoting back, as you said, to a strategy he\u2019s been relying on that involved the media quite heavily. I\u2019m wondering. Now that he\u2019s kind of going back to the same well, can we expect the media to jump in with both feet or do you think they\u2019re gonna be a little bit more skeptical this time?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jump with both feet? You mean go —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think Obama could have done what he\u2019s done in the past if the media wasn\u2019t fully supporting him, correct?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep. That\u2019s pretty good bet. I mean, he needs a slavish media that is covering up for him, ignoring 90% of what he does, and basically acting as a PR firm. Yep.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. So now he\u2019s kind of going back to this try to change the subject, but he now has his recent track record where things that are not going well. Will the media be skeptical?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The mainstream media are like Pavlov\u2019s dogs. That\u2019s my point today, actually. No matter where. Everywhere I look, last night on cable TV, on the blogs, everybody was taking it seriously. Everybody was reacting with the stats on the minimum wage, that they\u2019ve been printing for 25 years or 30 years. Everybody was reacting with the truth about the level of “income inequality.” Everybody\u2019s buying it.<\/p>\n

I mean, Obama says this, everybody reacts to it, and the media\u2019s talking about it. Everybody\u2019s all-in. I mean, that was my point. It\u2019s everybody. Even conservative blogs, they bought it. So Obama pivots, and they respond, not by describing what Obama\u2019s doing, but by taking his challenge and trying to prove he\u2019s wrong with what he\u2019s saying. It\u2019s the same battle we\u2019ve been fighting for 25 or 30 years. <\/p>\n

The Democrats come out and say, “We need to raise the minimum wage,” and the conservative Republican media then responds with, “Well, let\u2019s get the truth about the minimum wage. It\u2019s this, this, this, this, that, that.” Rather than deal with the strategy and the tactic, the Republicans take the bait and deal with the substance, never reaching the low-information voter, and never bridging the emotional gap. <\/p>\n

The Democrats know if they talk about raising the minimum wage, who is opposed to people making more money? Nobody is. Everybody wants everybody to make more money. So just have the Republicans start saying, “Well, the minimum wage, you look at the numbers,” and they start citing statistics that are esoteric to people. That\u2019s what they\u2019re doing now. I can\u2019t tell you the amount of stuff people sent me. “Rush, here\u2019s the truth about income inequality.<\/p>\n

“Make sure you tell your audience!” I\u2019ve been saying for 25 or 30 years, and it\u2019s all the same. To answer your question, short version: They\u2019re all in. Wherever Obama goes, they\u2019re gonna follow. The mainstream media are Obama\u2019s first responders. When he\u2019s caught in a tree trying to rescue the cat and neither can get down, the fire department shows up (that\u2019s the media) to go get ‘im out of there. They are the PR firm, the first responders, Pavlov\u2019s dogs, whatever, even now.<\/p>\n

Nothing\u2019s changed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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