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RUSH: David in Louisville. You\u2019re next, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I need your advice, and I really believe it\u2019s panic time for the conservatives right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019ve shown that we can go out and educate the people, get Republicans elected, and win the legislation. The problem is, I think, that we have an institutional problem in government that voting is not going to be able to fix. What\u2019s the good of putting Republicans in office when the judiciary and the education and the media can just have them all thrown in jail?<\/p>\n

RUSH: This call is plagiarism<\/a>. I made this point yesterday, two different times.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. But my question is: What do we do about it?<\/emphasize> Because educating the people did not fix the issue. What you said yesterday, I heard you say it, and I needed to call you because I had said the same thing an hour before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, so I plagiarized you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, you didn\u2019t, but we were on the same wavelength.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just want to know, what are we supposed to do? It feels like it\u2019s 1775 and we have no Bill of Rights. What are we supposed to do?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, in terms of the judiciary, that is <\/emphasize>the result of who wins elections. The judiciary we\u2019re talking about — the federal judges, appellate judges, Supreme Court judges — those are all appointed by the administration in power. It\u2019s obviously important to have the same party running the Senate when those appointments are made. So that\u2019s something that can be changed. It takes some time because these are lifetime appointments. The Supreme Court is a good example of it. The Supreme Court, you know, the liberals are quaking in fear that there\u2019s going to be another opening there before Bush leaves. That Supreme Court has seen some fairly decent progress, with Alito and John Roberts to go along with Clarence Thomas and Justice Scalia. There\u2019s some health issues and ageism issues on the Democrat side, the left side of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

As to the other things, one of the points that I made yesterday — and it is contradictory, when you talk about the liberals populating government bureaucracies and agencies like the CIA, state department, Pentagon, where there are career people. There\u2019s a stark difference between the way liberals look at life and their futures and the way conservatives do. You know full well that liberals aspire to these jobs because they aspire to power over people. They want the government to be the biggest entity it can be, and they want to run it, and they want to be in charge of the regulations and the laws that come out of government because they have a basic contempt for the average citizen. They think the average citizen is incompetent and incapable. But it\u2019s beyond that. They literally want to change the way this government is, and the way the country is. They want to make it an image in their own ideology.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can I ask you a question?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Putting the right judge in place in the Supreme Court, how does that fix the problem that the judiciary is still too powerful and has authority that was not granted to it by the Constitution? It still doesn\u2019t fix the problem because that just means that we\u2019ve bought ourselves some time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no. You misunderstand. It\u2019s not just the Supreme Court. Look at how many Clinton judges have ruled to take power away, constitutional power away from the president —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — regarding the war on terror.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, those judges were appointed by a Democrat president.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you go back to last November\u2019s election, and does anybody recall the appointment of federal judges, Supreme Court judges, being on the table?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, thanks to John McCain, it got punted because of the Terrorist Bill of Rights. He distracted the Senate away from it and weren\u2019t able to fix it, the Gang of 14.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not just this. The conservative voters did. They were so angry at Republicans for a host of reasons, and maybe angry at Bush over Iraq. You know, there are all kinds of Republicans out there saying, &ldquo;Republicans need to be taught a lesson. They need to lose. They need to find out what it\u2019s like to lose.&rdquo; Okay, they did. Well, elections have consequences. So my point is that somewhere during the campaign it should have been important. I made the point that it\u2019s important for the Senate to be held by Republicans so that when these judicial nominations come up, they can be confirmed — and of course that wasn\u2019t part of the campaign. That\u2019s my question. Far and away what McCain was doing, speaks for itself. But look, the judiciary is something that can take awhile to change but it can be changed by elections. Now, what I was going to say about this other stuff. You\u2019re right in confirming how difficult it\u2019s going to be, because most conservatives who are going to Ivy League schools are not there to finally take over positions in the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Conservatives don\u2019t seek government jobs. You said it yourself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They don\u2019t aspire to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Conservatives, by definition, do not seek power over people. Conservatives want to remove government power out of people\u2019s way. Liberals want just the opposite.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So how do we do that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Liberalism\u2019s whole existence revolves around government and having control of it. Ours doesn\u2019t. Well, the strategery has to be one of getting into government to deny them that power. But look, when you get a president elected, the president is going to have to clean out as much of these places as he can. He can\u2019t clean it all out obviously because there are career people in there, but you need a president who is also a conservative and a movement conservative who\u2019s leading a movement, not just a Republican. We can\u2019t storm the agencies and force people out of there. Look, I think all this can be done, but it\u2019s just going to take time, and those areas where it can\u2019t be done, strategies need to be developed to blunt the effect and the power of career liberals in some of these institutions. Now, education is another place. Institutions of higher learning, academia? I don\u2019t know what about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I talked to you awhile back about conservatives buying up media networks, and you said it wasn\u2019t a good idea. How do you feel about that now? We talked about five years ago about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh) This is something that sounds sexy. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m opposed to it. I just don\u2019t see it ever happening.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Individuals don\u2019t own these networks anymore. Corporations do. The news divisions of these corporations are just that: they are divisions. You look at General Electric. Jack Welch ran General Electric when NBC was what it was. It\u2019s one of the liberal institutions of the Drive-By Media, and Welch wasn\u2019t going to change it, and Welch is not that. He has his underlings. The last individual to own a network was Ted Turner.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it would be cool. It would be nice. I just don\u2019t see it as something that\u2019s realistically going to happen. I think maybe I\u2019m more optimistic than some people are because I\u2019ve been involved in this evolution of change that has brought about this new media. To me, what exists in the media today is so much better and diverse than it was in 1988 when I started this program, and I see it as progress. I think demographics is going to take care of some of this. For example, the age of the people who watch the nightly newscasts is 65-plus (you can tell that by the advertisements), and that largely is all they watch. They\u2019re watching soap operas during the day or playing croquet, whatever they do. That\u2019s all they watch. Some people, all they read is the New York Times. Some people, all they read is the Washington Post. We conservatives, I think, sample all of this media. But the liberals do not. They\u2019ve been trying to get the Democrats to cancel the debate on the Fox News Channel even though it\u2019s going to deliver a larger audience than any other cable news channel could. <\/p>\n

I think that as the yutes of America who are getting their information a whole different way (Internet, cell phones, and who knows what), the evening newscasts are going to go the way of the dinosaurs because it\u2019s not going to be ‘appointment television\u2019 for people who are now 30 and 40 to sit around and watch an anchor at the end of the day. They already know what the news of the day is before that happens. But these seasoned citizens are the largest voting bloc, and that\u2019s the only view they got. So demographics is going to take care of some of this. The trick for conservatives is to stay on the cutting edge of technology in terms of how the information is gotten. But it\u2019s all about content, content, content. If conservatives are going to continue to do well in the media, it has to be stuff that people want to hear, listen to and read, and it can\u2019t be just totally ideologically based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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