{"id":14266,"date":"2012-10-15T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T16:49:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T16:49:43","slug":"media_advises_obama_on_47_strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/15\/media_advises_obama_on_47_strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advises Obama on 47% Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Tom Brokaw this morning on the Today Show. Savannah Guthrie: “We\u2019ve been known to hype things in the past here in the media, but this is a very high-stakes moment.” What we have here is the media advising Obama on how to bring up Romney\u2019s 47% comment.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: The president can take a playbook page from what Vice President Biden did the other night <\/a>in one answer talking about 47%. Where are your tax returns? We\u2019re gonna cut taxes for middle class, and if you\u2019re making more than a million dollars a year you\u2019re gonna raise taxes. I think that we\u2019ll see the president coming after him saying, “This is the Mitt Romney today. This is a different Mitt Romney than we just saw a month or so ago.”<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. So obviously the media is advising Obama. I think it\u2019s fascinating. They don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s capable of coming up with this stuff on his own. They don\u2019t think Obama, The Messiah, is able to do this without aid and assistance. But they also are of the belief that there are two or three different Romneys out there, and that Romney has genuinely flip-flopped on things like tax cuts and so forth.<\/p>\n

They really think that there is an opening to go say that the Romney who showed up at the debate is not the real Romney<\/a>, that the real Romney is the guy they\u2019ve been caricaturing in their ads! What am I missing here? Clinton\u2019s out on the stump saying the same thing. They\u2019re trying to manufacture this notion that Romney is flip-flopping. I understand he\u2019s got that reputation. It goes back to the Republican primaries.<\/p>\n

But what has he flip-flopped on?<\/p>\n

What did he say in the debate that he\u2019s not been saying throughout this entire campaign? The difference in the debate was that he finally said it to Obama. Finally somebody said it to Obama\u2019s face, and Obama had no answer for it. Anyway, they think they\u2019re sitting on a home run here with 47%. They think it\u2019s a grand slam. “Where are your tax returns?” Romney\u2019s released his tax returns. He\u2019s shown how charitable he is.<\/p>\n

He has shown how much he\u2019s paid in taxes.<\/a> He has shown he\u2019s given more in charity percentage-wise and in dollars than Obama and Biden combined. “We\u2019re gonna cut taxes for the middle class. If you\u2019re making more than a million year, you\u2019re gonna raise taxes.” It\u2019s $250,000. Well, Biden was talking about raising it to a million but they slapped him down at the regime. I hope they do bring up all this stuff.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Obama who\u2019s the sitting duck on all this. It\u2019s Obama who\u2019s got indefensible tax policy. It\u2019s Obama whose economic policies are proven to be destructive. Are they asking this guy to walk into a trap? Frank Luntz was on CBS This Morning with Charlie Rose. Rose said, “The Romney campaign expects Obama is gonna be more aggressive. What does that mean? What risks are there for the president?”<\/p>\n

LUNTZ: If I am Barack Obama, I\u2019m focusing on one number: 47%. And I\u2019m trying to drive that home as much as I possibly can, particularly because it\u2019s a live studio audience, and they\u2019re the ones who are gonna be asking the questions. “Which one of you thinks you fall in the 47% — and Governor Romney: Who do you represent here, and who do you not?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: As much as they\u2019re hitting on the 47%, if Romney does not have an answer for this, I will be stunned. I have the answer to it. That 47% tape, where he\u2019s talking to his donors, turn it around. “Hey, Barack, what about the bitter clingers?” Turn it right around if you want to, or deal with the 47%. Do both. Deal with the 47% and then say, “Well, you know, President Obama also said something in a campaign speech to some donors that people weren\u2019t supposed to hear.<\/p>\n

“He said that he didn\u2019t particularly like people that cling to their guns and their religion. He\u2019s got a name for them: Bitter clingers.” The thing about the 47%… It\u2019s not “the” thing because there are many things about it, but one of the things about the 47% is most people who are in the group don\u2019t think they are. Human nature, human psychology, they don\u2019t think they\u2019re in that group. But Romney can explain this with pure honesty without offending anybody.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s David Corn on Face the Nation yesterday during a discussion about the second debate tomorrow night. David Corn who\u2019s Mother Jones magazine…<\/p>\n

CORN: The 47% tape, which I\u2019ll take some credit for, really showed a lot, and I think that\u2019s why Biden came back to it. And I do think in the debate ahead, talking to people in the Obama camp, Obama is gonna try to remind people that there is a gap between what Romney said in the debate and what he has or hasn\u2019t said previously.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. I\u2019m sitting here in stunned amazement, and I\u2019ll explain why when we come back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019m serious. I\u2019m sitting here and I\u2019m asking myself: What am I missing? I ask myself every day, “Am I out of touch? Am I losing it?” I\u2019m paranoid about this. And I don\u2019t get this 47%. I don\u2019t understand. Biden used it. Biden used it against Ryan. Ryan didn\u2019t even respond to it. Biden is not considered the winner of that debate. I think I understand why this means so much to these guys. And they\u2019re really, really off base and looking at the wrong thing, the media is on this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, from the sound bites that we\u2019ve played so far, from some of the comments that were made over the weekend on the Sunday shows, it is apparent that the Drive-Bys are doing everything they can to tell Obama: Focus on the 47% comment that Romney made! Now, what was that comment? Romney was speaking to some donors, a private donor meeting in May, and there was somebody that recorded it. Fine and dandy. Same thing happens to Obama and everybody else.<\/p>\n

In that donor appearance, I\u2019m guessing he probably got a question or two from some dissatisfied donors: “Why don\u2019t you do this? Why don\u2019t you do that?” That\u2019s what happens at these things. I mean, these are big-bucks people. They\u2019re shelling out a lot of money. They expect something for it. “Why don\u2019t you do that? Why don\u2019t you run an ad for that group? Why don\u2019t you…?” I mean, people tell me what to say all the time on this program.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re probably telling Romney in your own mind what you think he ought to do. So probably somebody said, “Why don\u2019t you go after this group or that group?” and Romney said, “Look, there\u2019s a bunch of people that no matter what I do, they\u2019re gonna vote for Obama. It\u2019s 47% whatever it is that are not gonna vote for me, no matter what,” and he went on to describe them, and he did it accurately. They are your average Democrat voters!<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s not gonna represent them.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s not going to be president of them.<\/p>\n

But this relentless focus on that 47%? Who doesn\u2019t know about it by now? The Drive-Bys are acting like there\u2019s still a whole bunch of people in the country that don\u2019t know it. Let me tell you what the truth is: The truth is that because of the first debate, it is Romney who is shocking everybody because he is not the guy that the Obama campaign\u2019s been telling everybody he is.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been running ads about Romney as a felon, a money launderer, a guy who doesn\u2019t care about people <\/a>to the extent that he would let a man\u2019s wife die of cancer. And then the real Romney shows up at the debate and everybody is startled! The people who only know Romney by virtue of what Obama\u2019s told them or the Obama campaign or Obama PACs or the television ads are surprised. So the real shocker was, “Wait a minute! Somebody\u2019s not telling us truth here about who Romney is.”<\/p>\n

And now, after Romney shows up as who he is, as who he\u2019s always been — but in stark contrast to the lying, savage, misrepresentation way he\u2019s been put forth in these ads — they now want to try to tell the American people that the Romney they saw in the debate is the fraud and that the real Romney is the guy in their ads. Sorry, but that\u2019s a nonstarter. That isn\u2019t gonna fly. That\u2019s just outrageous.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the analogy that I made last week to trying to believe that exit polls should count more than real votes. In the 2004 election, the exit polls had John Kerry winning in both the two and five o\u2019clock waves of exit polls. Then the real votes started being counted and it was Bush that was gonna win, and the Democrats thought that the real votes was where the corruption was and that the exit polls were accurate!<\/p>\n

So they think the Romney they\u2019ve portrayed in these ads is the real Romney. Remember, they live in this world where they create lies about things and people, and that\u2019s what they believe. And when they\u2019re confronted with the hard, cold truth and reality that\u2019s diametrically opposed to what they believe, they\u2019re stuck! They don\u2019t know what to do. The Orwellian thing in all of this is that there is outrage that Romney brought up the 47%.<\/p>\n

If anybody has been campaigning on the idea that there are enemies of the state, it\u2019s Barack Obama! If you have a job, you\u2019re an enemy of the state. If you\u2019re successful, you\u2019re an enemy of the state; you\u2019re not paying your fair share. If you have a small business and you want a tax cut, you\u2019re an enemy of the state. Romney doesn\u2019t have of the enemies of the state. But Obama sure does!<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s the one targeting certain groups. Obama is the one who wants to punish certain people and wants to get votes on the basis of punishing certain Americans. Obama is the guy who wants everybody around the world to know that he successfully put an American in jail because of a video that he did. Does anybody really think that Mitt Romney has enemies of the state that he wants to target or injure or harm?<\/p>\n