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Now, here\u2019s the story. Dan Balz and Howard Kurtz: “Senator John Kerry was the big story in Portland on Monday. His dinnertime rally down the with former Vermont governor Howard Dean drew thousands of supporters and dominated a local TV news that night. ‘Portland crowd rallies around Kerry\u2019 said a front page headline on Tuesday\u2019s Portland Oregonian, but the presumptive Democratic nominee barely caused a blip on the national news media radar even though he was paired against President Bush in ceremonies in Topeka, Kansas commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education <\/emphasize>ruling. Kerry got a one-sentence summary in the CBS Evening News and a two-sentence summary on the NBC Nightly News. ABC\u2019s World News Tonight aired a two-sentence sound bite to Bush\u2019s three-sentence sound bite. <\/p>\n

“Earlier this year, Kerry had little trouble attracting national attention as he racked up a series of primary election victories. Since then he\u2019s been far less visible, struggling almost daily to compete for attention with the news out of Iraq and the bully pulpit of the White House. All this has left Kerry with a smaller megaphone at a time when challengers often struggle to be heard.” Oh give me a break. Challengers don\u2019t “struggle to be heard.” Anybody ever heard of Ross Perot or Bill Clinton? What is this? Still <\/emphasize>making excuses for the guy. It\u2019s not even his fault. It\u2019s the news media\u2019s fault. Here\u2019s Kurtz and Balz blaming the news media! “Kerry advisors argue that with Bush on the defensive and his poll numbers dropping, their candidate has hardly suffered from a lack of national media visibility.” It\u2019s the other way around. If Bush is in this so-called free fall, why aren\u2019t you also going up?<\/p>\n

“Other Democrats worry that Kerry has been slow to develop a compelling message for his candidacy, rendering him unable to take full advantage of the president\u2019s weakened position. From April 1st through last week, the three network newscasts did not run a single report on Kerry\u2019s proposals on jobs, education, health care, the environment or other issues that he\u2019s been hitting on the stump,” and there\u2019s a good reason for it: they\u2019re trying to help him. These are idiotic ideas. If these ideas get out, this guy is doomed. <\/emphasize>The media is doing this guy the biggest favor in the world by suppressing him. It\u2019s one of the few times you can say this, that no media attention is actually helping somebody — but in Kerry\u2019s case it\u2019s relevant. <\/line>“However, the media did carry reports that tended to portray Kerry to the defensive. The controversy over his throwing away his Vietnam medals [or ribbons], an attempt by some Catholic leaders to deny him…” There\u2019s a great parody piece, by the way, I got sent last night by somebody who fell for it. Yeah, people send me news all the time like I can\u2019t find it myself, and I got this story, and the headline: “Kerry to Announce Wednesday Creation of New Pro-Choice Catholic Church,” and the person sending it to me bought it, said, “Rush, you won\u2019t believe this.” The problem is it proved something: good humor, good comedy, good humor must have an element of truth or believability in it to be funny and of course there are people who believe he would do this, start their own pro-choice Catholic church. (Laughing.) I looked at it; I just prayed that it was real but I read and I read, and I discovered it was a parody — and then I was mad that I didn\u2019t think of it myself. You always get upset when somebody out-creates you. You always do, or I do, and that\u2019s just too rich: John Kerry to announce creation of pro-choice Catholic church. (Laughing.) <\/line>The thing is now that it\u2019s out there it will give somebody the idea and they\u2019ll do it like Arianna Huffington or somebody, come along and think it\u2019s a great idea. So, anyway, all this news here, Kerry can\u2019t get noticed in the media. He can\u2019t break through — and the right spin on it is they\u2019re helping him out by making sure nobody hears his idiotic ideas. Now, from the American Spectator. We\u2019re going to go back to this conflict that Kurtz and Balz referred to here, Kerry and Bush on the ground in Topeka. Well, not “on the ground.” That\u2019s the point. They\u2019re in Topeka on the same day to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education<\/emphasize>. “Presumptive, assumed Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry belittled President Bush while the candidate\u2019s plane sat on the tarmac in Topeka, Kansas on Monday. After making his speech commemorating Brown vs. Board of Education<\/emphasize>,” and does anybody remember hearing it? <\/line> No, because it was stupid. It was dumb; it was lifeless, and that\u2019s why you didn\u2019t hear it, because if you did, he\u2019d be in worse trouble than he\u2019s in. So Kerry is sitting there on his plane after he\u2019s made this memorable speech. His entourage were boarding their charter due to fly west out to Oregon. “An advanced staffer for Kerry informed him that they had they had to hurry and take off so that the airspace around the Topeka airport could be could be secured for President Bush\u2019s arrival. Kerry, upon hearing that, refused to move quickly. Instead, he loitered and refused to take his seat on the airplane. At one point, Kerry asked reporters, ‘You mean you\u2019re not staying for What\u2019s His Name?\u2019 referring to Bush.” Have you heard this? He said to reporters. Have you heard this anywhere? He said this to reporters<\/emphasize>, people with notebooks and pencils who write down what other people say and then tell us. <\/line><\/p>\n

Has anybody told you <\/emphasize>what Kerry said to these reporters — the guys with the notebooks — and women — with the pencils, writing down for history what these candidates are saying? Not <\/emphasize>me. American Spectator, first time I\u2019ve heard of this. Kerry says, “You mean you\u2019re not staying for What\u2019s His Name?” The Kerry staffer said, “He seemed to be enjoying putting out the president\u2019s flight. It wasn\u2019t mean-spirited. He just kind of got on a roll humor-wise and went with it.” Well, hardy-har-har. I mean, we\u2019re all in total jocularity here, folks, unable to contain the tears of our laughter. “The truth is that Kerry may have been in a foul mood from his speech. It was noted by a number of supporters who were standing with him in Topeka that one of his biggest applause lines had actually been John Edwards\u2019 big applause line when he was running for president. <\/line>“Kerry had told the civil rights audience, [Kerry sing-song voice:] ‘Todaaaay, more than ever, we neeeeed to renew our commitmeeeent to one America.\u2019 Kerry blamed his speechwriters for the oversight,” again. <\/emphasize>What was the other thing he blamed the speechwriters for? He kept saying something that was [program observer interruption]. Who? Oh, yeah, it was the Benedict Arnold corporation, said [Kerry sing-song voice], “Aaaah, my speechwriters. I told them to take that oooout of there, but it keeps showing up.” Well, why do you keep saying it? “Well, it\u2019s just you don\u2019t understaaaand how things happen out here on the campaign. It was in the speeeeech. It was invented by the campaign. I told them to take it out. It\u2019s still in there. I\u2019m going to really get tough and make suuuure they take it out.” Why don\u2019t you just not say it? Weeeell, that\u2019s easy for you. You just don\u2019t understand how this works.”<\/line>“Kerry blamed his speechwriters for the oversight and according to a Kerry staffer in Washington, asked that the line no longer be used in his speeches. He\u2019s the guy that gives the speeches. He\u2019s asking them, “Make suuuure that I don\u2019t say that again in my speeches.” This is why they don\u2019t tell you what\u2019s going on with this buffoon! It\u2019s just, he\u2019s also — we got an audience. He\u2019s stealing a Howard Dean line. Remember, Howard Dean always closed out his speeches, [Screaming Dean impression] “The flag of the United States of America doesn\u2019t belong to Rush Limbaugh, Jerry Falwell…” Kerry is starting to use it but not with my name. We have the audio. Oh, folks, sit tight here. We may be in the third hour but we\u2019ve only scratched the surface. [program observer interruption] Kerry? Petty? Of course! He\u2019s arrogant. He\u2019s condescending. He\u2019s not capable of making a mistake. He\u2019s not capable. It\u2019s a speechwriter\u2019s fault; it\u2019s his stupid wife\u2019s fault for buying the SUVs; it\u2019s somebody else\u2019s fault for making him ride in one. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not petty. It\u2019s patrician elitism, Mr. Snerdley. Oh, that\u2019s arrogance. That\u2019s not petty, trying to hold up the president\u2019s plane. That\u2019s not petty. It\u2019s childish, if that\u2019s what you mean, but it\u2019s sheer arrogance — and for the staffer in the press, “Ooh, isn\u2019t he funny!” (mock laughing.) We\u2019re all laughing of course — and they all told us about it, they thought it was so funny, didn\u2019t they? <\/line>COMMERCIAL BREAK<\/line>I\u2019m going to go ahead and mention this because this is good, too. “Tom Daschle was said by senior leadership staffers in the Senate to be furious with his colleague, the assumed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee [that can\u2019t get noticed], John Kerry, because he missed that vote last week that would have extended unemployment benefits here in our roaring, recovering economy. Leadership staffer said, ‘We just got outflanked by the Republicans. Kerry knew about that vote. Daschle asked him to be there. We asked Kennedy to make clear to him how important we thought the vote was, but Kerry ignored him. He\u2019s basically no longer a U.S. senator. He\u2019s a full-time candidate.'”<\/line> <\/line>I\u2019m telling you, this is arrogant condescension. His excuse is saying [Kerry sing-song voice], “Weeeell, it wasn\u2019t going to pass the House anyway. I didn\u2019t neeeeed to be there.” What about getting your <\/emphasize>vote on the record, dunderhead, so you can go out there and tell your constituents that you want to pay them for not working, which is what your campaign is all about? I mean, you have a GV. You charter — I\u2019m not talking computer — you have SUVs; you have any number of ways of getting to Washington in hours and then going back to wherever you are. Just go there and vote so you can go out on the campaign trail and say, “I don\u2019t belieeeeve this economy is coming baaaack, and I don\u2019t want it to come back, so I think people should be paaaaid 13 more weeks for not working, because they caaaan\u2019t. It\u2019s either that or go to Vietnam and — I\u2019m sorry, Iraq. I <\/emphasize>went to Vietnam — go to Iraq and die.”<\/line> But, no! Pass up a brilliant political opportunity and tee off your Senate colleagues at the same time. [program observer interruption] Ummm, what was that? Well, yes, I do understand the nuances of the campaign trail. I understand the nuances of the campaign trail better than Kerry does. If it would have been me and I\u2019m trying to get the votes of these kooks on the left who want to get paid for not working, I\u2019d have made sure I was there and voted, especially <\/emphasize>when I knew that my non-vote was going to be the reason the whole thing tanked? Jeez! [ear-splitting tone]<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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