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RUSH: This is Howard Fineman last night on PMSNBC\u2019s The Last Word. Fineman now left Newsweek, as you know, and he\u2019s over at the Huffing and Puffington Post and they\u2019re having a discussion about Newt\u2019s debate performance last night. This was Howard Fineman\u2019s review.<\/p>\n

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FINEMAN: Newt Gingrich, with this crowd and with these people here who want a fighter — who like cockfighting, who like the hardscrabble, who like the confrontational approach — that\u2019s what Newt Gingrich gives them. It may be shortsighted of them going down the road, but these people here in this state want to feel like they\u2019ve got a feisty person to go up against Barack Obama. Their hatred of Barack Obama is almost blinding in its intensity, and Newt feeds that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, see? They\u2019re in a foreign country. I guarantee you Howard Fineman probably thought he had to apply for a visa and an immigration card — and you notice the first thing he said? What is the first thing he used to describe South Carolina? They “like cockfighting” here. So you think of South Carolina as Cuba? What is this? And, by the way, David “Rodham” Gergen does not seem to think<\/a> that this kind of talk is gonna scare off the independents.<\/p>\n

“Intense hated of Obama,” that\u2019s what they think. Well, it only matches their intense hatred of conservatives. They have an intense hatred for us. They hate us more than they hate the Taliban. They hate us more than they hate Al-Qaeda. They want Al-Qaeda to have more civil rights than people on the Internet have.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so what does the Drive-By Media think of South Carolina? Cockfights? NASCAR? With NASCAR you\u2019ve got stills. You know, how NASCAR got started was outrunning the revenuers. So you got cockfights, that\u2019s South Carolina. Then you got NASCAR, which is hicks in the backyard brewing their own moonshine outrunning the federal agents. You got football, and that\u2019s barbarism and brutal. Then you got the military, and that\u2019s the focus of evil in the modern world. Then you got grits. Look at the southern food, my God, type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, clogged arteries and you die. And jobs. And that\u2019s the one thing Obama doesn\u2019t like. So there\u2019s not one thing on this list in South Carolina that liberals can stomach: cockfights, NASCAR, football, military, grits, and jobs. And all of that is America, and the lib media hates it, resents it. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why, I\u2019m gonna tell you, the social conservatives watching this thing last night probably hate the news media more than they\u2019re concerned about Newt\u2019s private life. South Carolina\u2019s also a right-to-work state. That would be another thing that the left would hate about it. Plus, there\u2019s a female governor there, and she\u2019s a looker, and that always bugs the Democrats. Their last looker was Jennifer Granholm in their mind and look at the hay they tried to make of that. So all these things, South Carolina, you add it all up, majority American, and that\u2019s why Obama and the Democrats despise it. It\u2019s a right-to-work state, it\u2019s why they have jobs. The unemployment rate there is high, but they\u2019re working and it would be lower in the National Labor Relations Board and Obama hadn\u2019t stepped in to try to stop job creation. <\/line><\/p>\n

Joe Klein, TIME Magazine, last night on MSNBC, this is what he thought of the debate, Gingrich and his moment with the media, John King.<\/p>\n

KLEIN: What it says about Gingrich, throughout these debates his most effective moments of attack have been against us, have been against — and attacking us with that audience is kind of like saying Osama Bin Laden was a bad person.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he\u2019s comparing the media to Osama Bin Laden. Hey, Joe, works for us, fair comparison, good analogy. By the way, Joe Klein had a story in TIME Magazine earlier this week about what an utter failure Head Start\u2019s been. No, I\u2019m not kidding. All of the multiple billions that have been spent on Head Start and there\u2019s nothing to show for it, not one thing to show for it. It\u2019s a total disaster, but don\u2019t judge the results, judge our big hearts, judge our intentions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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