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RUSH: Over on PBS on their Sunday morning Inside Washington show, they had Washington Post columnist Colbert King, known to his friends in the DC establishment as Colby. They were having a discussion about the Republican Party. Nina Totenberg said, “When you look actually at what the Republican Party analysis of itself was –” this Reince Priebus thing, “– the fear was that the electorate is a different electorate. And it isn\u00c2\u2019t just much more of a minority electorate. It is an electorate that wants some serious social and economic safety net that is different from what they are hearing from Republicans today.” And this is what Colbert King had to say.<\/p>\n

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KING: The guru of the Republican Party, the face of conservatism is Rush Limbaugh. We all agree to that. He puts down those results by saying Obama won with a low-information voters, low-information voters. What\u2019s he mean by that? They\u2019re sort of stupid. They don\u2019t understand the issues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, that\u2019s not… nobody in the media, I don\u2019t know what is so hard about getting me right. I\u2019m on 15 hours a day. You don\u2019t need a password to listen to this program. It\u2019s free over the air. You can even listen to parts of this program at RushLimbaugh.com. You do not have to be a subscriber. You can access the text of this program at RushLimbaugh.com. It\u2019s free. It\u2019s everywhere. What is so hard to understand about what I say? <\/p>\n

I have never said that low-information voters are stupid. I just said they don\u2019t know what they think they know. They are prisoners to the media, which has dumbed them down. Low-information voters can be doctors. Low-information voters can be scientists. They can be among all walks of life. It has nothing to do with IQ. It has to do with what they don\u2019t know because of their media sources. Low-information voters are clearly people that don\u2019t have all the information available to make a voting choice. That\u2019s all they are. And they\u2019re all over the place. And most of them do vote Democrat. <\/p>\n

Most of them did vote for Obama. It\u2019s not a comment on their intelligence. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re stupid or don\u2019t understand the issues. They just haven\u2019t had it all explained to them. What Mr. King just did here is prove himself to be a low-information columnist. He probably a low-information voter himself. He probably closes off half of his mind to conservatism or anything else that he doesn\u2019t agree with. Just amazing.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, Colbert King of Washington Post, I just want to remind you that the term “low-information voter,” I\u2019m pretty sure that we coined it. I\u2019m pretty sure that we made up that name, but we\u2019re not the only ones to use it. Richard Stengel, the TIME Magazine editor, was explaining why Obama was named Person of the Year. Mr. King, do you remember what Mr. Stengel said? He went on TV and he also had a press release.<\/p>\n

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They named Obama the Person of the Year because no-information voters loved the guy, and it\u2019s no-information people — low-information voters — who he said are transforming America. It\u2019s remarkable! TIME Magazine said it. Obama is the guy that ended up being able to tap that block. He\u2019s the first politician to get votes from people who don\u2019t care about anything and who aren\u2019t paying attention, and that was worth honoring the president as Person of the Year.<\/p>\n

TIME Magazine, Mr. King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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