{"id":22241,"date":"2004-10-22T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:20:35","slug":"kerry_thinks_midwesterners_are_idiots_can_i_get_me_a_hunting_license_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/10\/22\/kerry_thinks_midwesterners_are_idiots_can_i_get_me_a_hunting_license_here\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Thinks Midwesterners Are Idiots, “Can I Get Me a Hunting License Here?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

They\u2019re writing the pre-obits, but there\u2019s a piece. I have it here. Some guy… Where\u2019s he from? This guy is not even American. This is so typical. Hang on here. It\u2019s from Chile. Chile. Ariel Dorfman has written a piece that John Kerry is just too smart to be president of the United States. It\u2019s because you people, all of us, the American people, are a bunch of dolts. We\u2019re a bunch of dunces. We are too stupid to understand him. We are so stupid we fall for this Protestant\/Catholic\/Christian evangelism. Oh, it\u2019s just perfect. So sit tight. But this is Kerry, going in for a hunting license yesterday in Ohio. He\u2019s going into a sporting goods store. This is what he said.<\/p>\n

KERRY: Can I little me a hunting license here?<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Did you hear that? “Can I get me a huntin\u2019 license heyah?” Can I get me a hunting license here? Now, ladies and gentlemen, we all know that John Kerry doesn\u2019t speak that way. We know it. But that\u2019s what he thinks the people in Ohio will judge him as a real guy, if he walks in there and says: “Hey, can I get me a hunting license here?” But he blew it because it\u2019s not, “Can I get me a hunting license?” If he really wanted to carry this off, he should have said, “Hey, can I get me a huntin\u2019 license in here, dude?” or some such thing as that. So, I mean, if there\u2019s any doubt, folks. The whole thing was a put on photo op. The Democrats today are even admitting that\u2019s what it was. But Kerry has to go in and say, “Can I get me a hunting license here?”<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve abandoned the South. They have now totally shifted ad resources to the southwest, like out in Nevada and I guess New Mexico, wherever else. But they\u2019ve totally abandoned the South. For the first time in recent memory the Democratic Party has totally abandoned the South as a region. Now, this might have been part of Kerry\u2019s original plan out there during the debates, but it also says that John Edwards has been absolutely worthless to Kerry in this campaign. Not one state in the South, and probably very few, if any, along the Mississippi River all the way up to the northern — maybe Illinois will go his way, but — We\u2019ll go through the polling data here in due course because it\u2019s starting to see some trends here, and Kerry\u2019s doing some things that do not…<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, he\u2019s making a pitch today. We\u2019re 12 days away from the election; he\u2019s out there making a pitch for women in Wisconsin, the traditional Democrat voting block and he\u2019s not strong in women. But I don\u2019t want to leave this “Can I get me a hunting license?” bit here because Jay Leno picked up on this and it happened last night on the Tonight Show. Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da, and here\u2019s Leno. We\u2019re going to go to sound bite 2 and 3 here, Mike. Leno\u2019s question to James Carville, who was a guest. Leno says, “Kerry went hunting today, and then when he went to get his license, he said, ‘Is this where I get me a huntin\u2019 license.\u2019 [sic] Now, this is a very educated man, Mr. Carville. He knows how to say ‘get a hunting license.\u2019 Why did he talk that way?”<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Let me explain it to you. Where — in a place like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, the Democrats sent these blue-collar guys to us and sez, “If you vote for the Republicans, you\u2019ll lose your job.” Then the Republicans send these guys a letter saying, “If you vote for the Democrat, you\u2019ll lose your gun, ” and it\u2019s kind of 50\/50: My job or my gun? You know what I mean? I don\u2019t know. (Laughter) So the Kerry campaign actually had a brilliant idea. It says, “How about you vote for me and you get to keep your job and your gun?” and that was actually kind of a smart thing to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uhhh, didn\u2019t answer the question. The question is not about why did he go to Ohio, but in the process of the answer, Carville reveals the strategy behind the photo op, and once again, the strategy relies on the stupidity of people in Ohio to fall for this. But question was: Doesn\u2019t he know how to speak? He doesn\u2019t say, “Can I get me a huntin\u2019 license here?” He knows not to speak that way, and Leno says, “But these little tricks like hunting or, you know, President Bush loading something on a truck, does that stuff work?”<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: It\u2019s to send a signal: “I care.” It\u2019s to send a signal. Kerry sent a signal, “I\u2019m not really a waffly, weak Massachusetts liberal; I\u2019m a guy that can knock a goose, you know, out the air,” or whatever it is. (Laughter) So, I mean, “Look at me,” and they kind of — carrying the goose by the neck and —<\/p>\n

LENO: Well, no, but see, he wasn\u2019t carrying it. They have somebody else carry the goose so the animal rights people don\u2019t see you carrying a dead animal. (Laughter) I mean it\u2019s all —<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Okay. Well, okay.<\/p>\n

LENO: It\u2019s all kind of —<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: You know what? It\u2019s all political.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. So even Carville doesn\u2019t try to really defend this as John Kerry being who he was. Not trying to defend John Kerry\u2019s as being a real guy. “It\u2019s all political,” doesn\u2019t dispute the fact that Kerry didn\u2019t carry the goose, and you know this is the case. Kerry wasn\u2019t carrying it. They asked him why he didn\u2019t carry the goose. He said, “Oh, I\u2019m lazy. I was up late watching the Red Sox.” He wasn\u2019t carrying the goose because he didn\u2019t want to offend people who might be appalled at the sight of a bunch of guys in camouflage gear happily walking out of a farm or of a cornfield, whatever, smiling, carrying dead geese bodies around. So it just keeps adding up, here. “Can I get me a huntin\u2019 license here?” Listen to this a couple more times. Just give me three or four of these right in a row here, Mike, if you can.<\/p>\n

KERRY: Can I get me a hunting license here? Can I get me a hunting license here? Can I get me a hunting license here? Can I get me a hunting license here? Can I get me a hunting license here? Can I get me a hunting license here?<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: You realize his friends in the salons of Manhattan on the Upper West Side and in Boston at Harvard and at Cambridge and in Washington, D.C. hear this, can you imagine how embarrassed…? Maybe they\u2019ll think it\u2019s brilliant because maybe that\u2019s what they think of those people. (Effete liberal snob impression) “Well, we know that\u2019s what they think of you in flyover country, but it\u2019s got to be embarrassing to hear one of their very own, do we have to defend these hard depths to actually appeal to these, these plebes out there whose votes we must have? Good God, after that, can we wash our hands of them? I don\u2019t believe we actually live in a country where people talk that way.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not going to let go of this can-I-get-me-a-hunting-license thing just yet. I want to do a side-by-side comparison. We have — what is this? Let\u2019s go back to 1971, shall we? 1971. This is audio from Jean-Francois testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We\u2019ll let you hear what he says there, and then we\u2019ll back it up, with when he went into a sporting goods store yesterday in Ohio, and asked for a hunting license.<\/p>\n

KERRY 1971: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Viet\u2019naaam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?<\/p>\n

\"\"KERRY 2004: Can I get me a hunting license here?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Let\u2019s do it again because I want these back to back, bam, bam, bam, bam, so you can hear the contrast. This is Kerry in 1971 — again it\u2019s the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — testifying about the Vietnam atrocities followed with his trip to the sporting goods store to get a hunting license in Ohio this week.<\/p>\n

KERRY 1971: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Viet\u2019naaam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?<\/p>\n

KERRY 2004: Can I get me a hunting license here?<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. The new Jean-Francois Kerry, ladies and gentlemen, as he attempts to appeal to all of you Midwestern hicks. You Midwestern hicks that got gun racks in the back window of your pickup truck out there. It\u2019s just amazing. They cannot… You know, once they are identified as liberals — and that\u2019s happened in this campaign — once they\u2019re identified as liberals and they have to start proving to you that they\u2019re not liberals or trying to establish to you that they\u2019re not liberals. They think they have to show you that they\u2019re conservatives. They then tell us what they think of conservatives. Kerry has just told us what he thinks of the people whose votes he needs: “Can I get me a hunting license here?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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