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RUSH: Jack in McAllen, Texas, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All knowing, all seeing, all caring.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All everything, sir. All everything. Yes, all everything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a Vietnam veteran. My son is an Afghanistan veteran. And keep kicking their butts.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: And don\u2019t let this issue die. Keep jamming it down their throats. In south Texas we got a saying: ‘Don\u2019t piss on my boots and try to tell me it\u2019s raining.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That ought to be the Media Matters motto.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m glad you appreciate it. Keep kicking their butts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I liked it when you said ass first.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, okay, okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Say it again, say it again.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Keep kicking their ass.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And what\u2019s that south Texas saying?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Don\u2019t piss on my boots and try to tell me it\u2019s raining.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Jack from McAllen, Texas, a loyal member of the El Rushbo audience. <\/p>\n

To Eugene, Oregon. Chris, you\u2019re next on the program. Great to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. You\u2019re an honorable man, and you\u2019re doing a great service to this country. I just wanted to make a comment about how ill-informed a great deal of Americans are. They will not take the time to get well informed on various things. They\u2019re so busy making a living for themselves and paying their bills and dealing with their families and all their private parts of their lives and everything, and I think that this is a problem in our country, that these people are so involved with their own lives that they seldom will take the time to investigate things that they may hear over the media, and I think this is a great example with what you\u2019re dealing with in Congress right now, whether it\u2019s people that are truly misinformed, they just throw this out and expect the great deal of the American public to take it at face value.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, because they think that the majority of the public\u2019s going to get the news from their willing accomplices in the Drive-By Media. And they\u2019re right. They\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I just encourage the American citizens to take the time and find out what the details are about all sorts of things, and especially this mess that they\u2019re trying to throw at you and others, to find out what the truth is. I live in a very liberal city, and I\u2019m amazed when I try to debate with people, and they\u2019re just not knowledgeable. They just believe the bumper stickers or the single little comments they hear in the newspaper or the mainstream.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re very right. It is not just that people are busy. Americans have a lot of leisure time, and there are a lot of things they can do with that leisure time, like watch video games and television, golf, whatever they do. And a lot of people don\u2019t want to be exposed to this stuff this soon before an election. But I think that\u2019s all the more reason here to try to keep it alive and deal with it. We put the original video of what I said on YouTube, and it was anywhere from number one to number five in a host of categories for three or four days, and that spreads it beyond this audience. The YouTube crowd is a demographic people are still trying to get their arms around in terms of understanding who they are, what their interests are, what they do when they\u2019re not watching YouTube and this sort of thing, and it\u2019s become a popular vehicle for that. We\u2019ve developed a rapid response team. YouTube tries to keep people like me off, but we found ways to bypass it and get things up there. We always have to try to stay ahead of things like that because it\u2019s common practice. Censorship on the left is common practice. So I appreciate your concerns. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always had ultimately faith in the American people. You can say what you just said, and you\u2019re right, and a lot of people are standing up and shouting they agree with you. But do you realize — I\u2019ve gotta find this story in the stack. This is an amazing statistic, and I\u2019ve mentioned it before. Since the turn of the century, only four Democrats have gotten more than 50% of the vote in presidential races. It may not even be that many. The idea that this is a Democrat-owned country or a majority-Democrat country simply isn\u2019t true. Look at who won the election in 2000 and who won the election in 2004. Look at Reagan. These people in the Drive-Bys can be reached. This is why so many of us here lament the lack of genuine leadership on our side. People do respond to leadership. Leadership is bold; leadership is confidence; leadership is not being defensive about things. People will respond to it; it can be done. The people you\u2019re talking about can be reached. This program makes the effort to do that each and every day. <\/p>\n

Now, having said that, Chris, being concerned that whatever the Drive-Bys put out there sticks and that there\u2019s nothing anybody can do to change it, look, I\u2019ll use myself as a personal example on this. I\u2019m in my 20th year of doing this, and over the course of these 20 years, I\u2019ve lost count of the number of episodes like this one. There have been many. This one may take the cake, but, hey, it was no small thing after the Oklahoma City bombing when the president of the United States tried to blame me for it through his spokesman. That\u2019s no small thing, folks. It is no small thing when, at the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Hilton — 1,200 people in there — the president of the United States tells a joke about me implying I am a racist. That is no small thing when the president of the United States tries to get that out there. You remember the wild distortions during the Michael J. Fox episode. You remember more than I can have time to recount for you here. My point is that while at the time they happen, I know that they can disturb you, and the Oklahoma City bombing thing, that\u2019s right on par with this that\u2019s happening here, but through all of this, I never lost a radio station because of it. Through all of this, we haven\u2019t lost a sponsor because of it. We haven\u2019t lost any audience. <\/p>\n

Another thing: Dingy Harry, on the floor of the Senate this past Monday, four days ago, talks about my steadily dwindling audience. If my audience is steadily dwindling, Dingy Harry, then why pay me any mind? The truth of the matter is what Tom Daschle said after the 2002 elections. He came out, they thought they had those elections wrapped up, Chris. Remember the Wellstone memorial? They thought the election was over, just like they think this one\u2019s over. They think Hillary is the president, just a matter of time. Going to talk about that after the break. There\u2019s some Democrats worshiped about this sense of inevitability. So the Democrats thought they had the 2002 midterms wrapped up. They were going to take back Congress, and they lost seats. Tom Daschle came out of a morning meeting, and he was white, he was palpably frightened. He had just been shown research, he said, from his experts, radio ratings. What he found was that the audience of this show was not just Republicans and conservatives, and he was stunned. They all thought and think that this audience is simply all conservatives and I\u2019m just preaching to the choir. What his experts told him was that there were Democrats who listened to this program and many of them had changed their minds about things. <\/p>\n

They lie to themselves about a lot of things. They lie to themselves about their opposition. They lie to themselves about their enemies. They lie to themselves about their own prominence. They lie to themselves about their own successes, and the Drive-Bys help fuel this by doing puff piece news stories on them. They\u2019re never challenged. Look at the coverage Mrs. Clinton gets. I\u2019ve got a story in the stack today from Anne Kornblut at the Washington Post marveling at how Mrs. Clinton gets away with avoiding hard questions, just like they used to marvel at what a great liar Bill Clinton was. Rather than excoriate her for not taking them, they marvel at how she\u2019s masterfully managing her campaign and so forth. So they lie to themselves about a lot of things. They\u2019re lying to themselves about the damage that they\u2019ve done to me. They haven\u2019t nicked me. They\u2019re going to keep trying. But they haven\u2019t been able to do it. So while you sit out there and think the American people are buying all this stuff, don\u2019t jump to that conclusion too quickly.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here are those statistics on Democrats and the majority of votes they get. ‘In the past 60 years, Democrats got more than one half of the vote twice. It remains a fact that the party, even during two terms of Bill Clinton, has not broken 50% of the vote in a presidential election in more than 30 years, and has done it only twice in the past 60 years. Plus, there\u2019s plenty of precedent for a seemingly insurmountable lead to evaporate in the blink of an eye. Think Michael Dukakis in the summer of \u201988. You\u2019ve been told that the Democrats are the majority party; you\u2019ve been told it so many times you probably believe it. Some call it an urban legend, others truth by repetition perfected by the spinmeister theories of Joseph Goebbels. The Democrats are not the majority party in this country. They are the majority party in the media. Mrs. Clinton is not inevitable,\u2019 which takes me to this story. I had this from yesterday. <\/p>\n

This is in The Politico: ‘Democrats Grapple with the Fear Factor.\u2019 This sounds just like the circumstances I was just describing to you that existed in 2002. ‘For Democrats, things rarely get much better than this. In 2008, they\u2019ll be running to succeed an unpopular incumbent, against an opposition that has rarely been more disorganized or dispirited. Polls show a Democratic advantage on major issues nearly across the board,\u2019 except for abortion. ‘Amid all these favorable signs, it\u2019s only natural that some of the party\u2019s top strategists would be pondering the same question: Wonder how we\u2019ll screw it up this time? ‘We are a little bit of a shell-shocked political party. We somehow or another always figure out a way to blow it,\u2019 Democratic strategist James Carville said. ‘Democrats have to talk their way out of winning.\u2019 Carville was not exactly serious, but not exactly kidding. Even as all the trends seem to be breaking their way, Democrats still sound a bit like a boy who has been beaten up too many times on the playground: certain another punch is coming. <\/p>\n

‘It\u2019s more than paranoia. After all, many of the formulas political scientists use to predict elections suggested Democrats would take the White House in 2000 and 2004. And it remains a fact that the party — even during two terms of Bill Clinton — has not broken 50 percent of the vote in a presidential election in more than 30 years, and it has done it only twice in the past 60 years. ‘No matter how the stars are aligned now, the stars keep moving,\u2019 said Mario Cuomo, the former New York governor and almost presidential candidate. ‘Republicans have just gotten very good at this,\u2019 Carville said of presidential politics. ‘Somehow or another, in the last three elections, they\u2019ve tended to close a little better than we have. No. 3 is that they have a more disciplined and effective echo chamber,” that means me and talk radio. <\/p>\n

‘A portion of Democratic unease relates to the source of the party\u2019s improved prospects. Democrats\u2019 resurgence ‘is a result of a complete implosion of the Republican Party,\u2019 as Carville put it. ‘This is not like some great enthusiasm for Democrats out there.” The dirty little secret, though, that nobody\u2019s talking about is a Celinda Lake poll. She\u2019s half of the Battleground Poll, and they are very worried. There are 31 swing congressional districts out there where she doesn\u2019t run well. She might win the state that those districts are in, but she might be a drag on a Democrat incumbent in that district, and there are 31 of them. That\u2019s a significant number. The Democrats are very worried about that. In addition, there are some candidates in the Democrat Party who are telling the DNC, ‘Don\u2019t send her to campaign. I don\u2019t want to run with her, coming out and campaigning for her.\u2019 Her negatives are sky high. For somebody who\u2019s inevitably going to be the next president, 49%, she is, as Karl Rove said, fatally flawed. Yet the conventional wisdom is, just get these Democrat primaries over, cancel \u2019em, put Mrs. Clinton as the nominee right now, let\u2019s save everybody some money because she\u2019s the next president anyway. It ain\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to stay on the theme here that this notion, this conventional wisdom of inevitability for Mrs. Clinton is another one of these attempts by everybody to get everybody in the country, as many as possible, to accept it. But the Democrats, behind closed doors, or cloakrooms, or wherever they huddle together, are not nearly as confident with this as they are in public. <\/p>\n

Another story from The Politico today: ‘The 2008 election offers the most diverse array of presidential candidates in history. But this rainbow campaign will hinge on the most durable reality of American politics: White men matter most.\u2019 The conventional wisdom is we hear about the gender gap, how Republicans can\u2019t get the female vote. I have pointed out for years that the dirty little secret of presidential politics is the white male vote. The Reagan Democrats, these are white southerners, they lost them and they\u2019ve been impugning them ever since, making fun of their religious beliefs; making fun of the fact they like NASCAR; making fun of the fact that they got gun racks in the back of pickup trucks; that they hang around in beer taverns in Tennessee at midnight on Friday night and laugh at Barack Obama commercials or Harold Ford commercials. They\u2019ve lost \u2019em. They\u2019ve been desperately trying to get them back in their weird way. <\/p>\n

That is only half of the story, though. ‘Every election cycle, a new slice of the electorate — suburban mothers, churchgoing Hispanics, bicycling Norwegians — comes into vogue as reporters and analysts study the polls and try to divine new secrets about who wins and why in American politics.\u2019 Probably the most famous example of this is the soccer moms for Bill Clinton. ‘The truth is that the most important factor shaping the 2008 election will almost certainly be the same one that has been the most important in presidential elections for the past 40 years: the flight of white male voters away from the Democratic Party.\u2019 This is something that The Politico is trying to warn the Democrats about. I find this interesting, too. ‘A more powerful what-if is to imagine that Democratic nominees had succeeded in narrowing the white male gap to even the low 20s instead of the mid-20s. Both Kerry and Gore would have won easily.\u2019 If the Democrats ever lost the black vote, they would be finished. You can play this two ways. If the Democrats ever lost 20% of the black vote, they would be finished. <\/p>\n

‘In 2008, Democrats are assembling behind a front-runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton, with singular problems among white males. Polls show her support among this group is approaching the record lows scored by Democrats during the peak of Ronald Reagan\u2019s popularity in the 1980s. Some recent hypothetical matchups — which are highly fluid at this stage of a contest — showed Clinton winning roughly a third of white males in a race against Republican Rudy Giuliani. In the past three decades, the only two Democrats to win the presidency, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, were politicians who organized campaigns around rhetorical and ideological pitches that were designed to reassure voters skeptical of liberal values.\u2019 There\u2019s another dirty little secret, ladies and gentlemen, and this is even more fascinating. Do you know what else the Democrats are concerned about? They are really concerned about whether people in this country are indeed ready to vote for, A, a woman president, or, B, a black president. <\/p>\n

This is from the Washington Times: ‘Is the United States of America honestly ready to elect a woman or an African American president? Not only is that a legitimate question, but it is one that haunts a number of Democrats who feel they are being rushed into making a decision that will leave them highly vulnerable in the general election.\u2019 So I\u2019ve got three stories here. They are in the Drive-By Media. Well, Politico\u2019s a website. Nobody\u2019s picking this up on television. Three stories about fears deep in the bowels of the Democrat Party and of the inevitability of Hillary Clinton\u2019s election. Now, I know that you\u2019re thinking, ‘Rush, come on, of course the country is ready to elect a woman; of course the country is ready to elect a black.\u2019 I don\u2019t even think that\u2019s a question, but to the Democrats it is. You have to understand something. The Democrats look at people and see the things about them that set them apart from them. They notice sexual orientation; they notice gender; they notice race. They are the ones that do this. They\u2019re the ones that categorize people into these groups. The real question here, is America ready to elect a bunch of socialists? That\u2019s the question. Do we want a socialist country? Do we want a top-heavy government that\u2019s infringing on everybody\u2019s freedoms? That\u2019s what the Democrats don\u2019t get. If they want to continue to look at it as a gender or race issue, fine. And since they do, let\u2019s continue with this story, and you will find out just to what extent they are dealing with it. <\/p>\n

Now, this piece is written by Douglas MacKinnon in the Washington Times. He has served as a press secretary to former Senator Dole. He was in the White House and the Pentagon. He\u2019s also an author. ‘For decades, my party, the Republican Party, has basically nominated the next white male in line. In 2000, when there was really not an heir apparent, George W. Bush wisely assumed the mantle and was nominated and then elected. During those same decades, the Democrats would cannibalize themselves until the last man standing got the nomination.\u2019 I remember what he\u2019s talking about, these debates. Gary Hart and Walter Mondull got into an argument, a debate one night, about who would get us out of the world fastest. (doing impressions) ‘I\u2019ll get us out of South Africa.\u2019 ‘Well, I\u2019ll get us out of there.\u2019 ‘Well, I\u2019ll get us out of Timbuktu.\u2019 ‘Well, I\u2019ll get us out of China.\u2019 It was comical to watch. <\/p>\n

But, as Mr. MacKinnon says, ‘As we approach the 2008 presidential election the parties have reversed themselves. Now it is the Republicans who have no ‘next-in-line\u2019 and must engage in protracted and ugly infighting until a bloodied victor emerges. While this transpires, it seems the Democrats have decided that Sen. Hillary Clinton is their ‘next-in-line\u2019 with Sen. Barack Obama a close second. Shouldn\u2019t this be good news for the Democrats? Should they not rejoice in the fact that for all intents and purposes, they have their nominee while we still have to engage in months of name-calling and mudslinging? You would think so, but a number of my Democratic friends privately tell me it\u2019s anything but good news. Being that the Democratic Party is many times held hostage by political correctness, my friends have no desire to publicly wonder if our nation is ‘mature\u2019 enough to elect a woman or an African-American. While common sense seems to indicate that it is a subject that must be addressed, the Democrats and much of the media seem to be doing all they can to ignore it. But at what cost? A recent survey by Democratic pollster Celinda Lake indicates that it may well be at a very severe cost. The internal poll showed that Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are trailing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, in 31 Democrat-held House districts. Again, that\u2019s 31 Democrat-held House districts representing almost 20 million people,\u2019 forget the national numbers here, where Hillary trails Giuliani. <\/p>\n

‘Why? Well, could be a lot of reasons. For Hillary, it could be that even when Democrats take a moment to think that we had George H. W. Bush for four years, Bill Clinton for the next eight years, George W. Bush for the next eight years, and potentially Mrs. Clinton (with Bill coming back) for another eight years, it may be just too much. These Democrats may well think that ceding the Oval Office to just two families for almost 30 years is overkill. We may like royalty, but it needs to be across the pond. For Mr. Obama, it may come down to something as basic as his lack of experience. Maybe these Democrats just don\u2019t see this young senator in the White House quite yet. Or maybe, just maybe, it may be something as simple as the fact that a large number of voters are not ready to vote for a woman or a black for president. <\/p>\n

‘The trick that pollsters now use to try and ascertain bias is to say to the voter, ‘OK, you are open-minded enough to vote for a woman or an African American. But what about your neighbor? Is he or she as open-minded as you?\u2019 Many times, the response to this question will be, ‘No way. I know for a fact they won\u2019t vote for a woman or a minority.\u2019 Once the pollsters have this information, they usually subtract anywhere from 10 percent to 15 percent from the number of those who say they will vote for a woman or a minority. As this drama plays out, my Democratic friends feel that they are being painted into a deeper and deeper corner with no escape possible. They feel that they are powerless to stop a process that will see them end up with a preordained nominee who will lose in the general election.\u2019 This is the third of three stories about this very subject today. <\/p>\n

‘Democratic women I know openly wonder if voters can get past Hillary\u2019s polarizing politics, her liberal mindset, her love of big government, and her desire to raise taxes. More than that, they fear that not enough American women are prepared to vote for a fellow woman,\u2019 and that\u2019s been my point all along, with a great indicator being the failure of S&eacute;gol&egrave;ne Royal in France to get a majority of the female vote, as a socialist, in a socialist country. ‘As we race toward the selection of our nominees, the media and the Democratic leadership may not want to speculate as to what role bias against a woman or an African-American may play in this election, but clearly a number of rank-and-file Democrats want it discussed. More importantly, they want it addressed while they still have a chance to effect the outcome.\u2019 Douglas MacKinnon in the Washington Times today. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to one of the previous stories, and that is the white male vote. Okay, you have the white male vote, Democrats have lost it, a majority for quite a few years. You have the Democrats all concerned about whether people are going to vote for Hillary, women, blacks, will they vote for a woman president or a black president and so forth. They are worried about this stuff and you contrast this with this era of inevitability we seem to be in where Mrs. Clinton is already anointed as the nominee and practically anointed as the president in 2008. Now, on this business about white southern males abandoning the Democrat Party, this is why it is important, ladies and gentlemen, to continue to characterize Mrs. Clinton as a woman that reminds you of your first wife, maybe your first and second wives, Nurse Ratched, or what have you. Point is, let\u2019s \u2019em focus on their race and their female issues and whether people will vote for a black or a woman, because I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt on. I think it\u2019s about policy and issues. It always is. This is what the Democrats don\u2019t get because they can\u2019t be honest about their policies. They can\u2019t be honest about their issues. They would die politically if they ever told anybody what their real plans are. So they get distracted and all this other stuff. The real question is whether or not the people of this country in 2008 want to elect a socialist president who will install a socialist government.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sally in Ann Arbor, Michigan — you gotta be surrounded.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yeah, we do what we can to keep our heads above water.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know what, I\u2019ve got a question for you, and then just a little comment on that point. Back to your point about Clinton\u2019s prospects of getting in the White House, the question is, to what extent do you think Pelosi is acting as a drag on Clinton\u2019s prospects? In other words, Pelosi as a scary dress rehearsal for having a freaky female in the White House?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sally, here\u2019s a woman saying this. This is what scares the hell out of Democrats.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, not only that, I\u2019m living in a state where we have Jennifer Granholm, a female governor who has, sticking through to her liberal principles, she just raised the state income tax; she\u2019s adding a 6% services tax. This is in the state that\u2019s the 50th in terms of growth in the union. We have the highest unemployment, and what are these idiots doing in the state capitol? I\u2019ve gotta throw some Republicans into that, too, because they went along with her. It\u2019s spend, spend, spend, and tax, tax, tax. All you have to do is look at Michigan and you know what you\u2019re going to get if that Hillary woman gets into the White House, which I don\u2019t think she will and I pray she won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve had so many irate Michiganders calling here since this deal was struck on Monday. They were going to shut down the government, but all they gotta do is look at Washington, there\u2019s revenue pouring into the treasury in Washington nobody ever expected to be pouring in. There\u2019s a reason for it: It\u2019s the tax cuts and they\u2019re sticking with them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no way a liberal Democrat, female or male, is going to do that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jennifer Granholm is doing what she was born to do: raise taxes. She\u2019s a liberal Democrat. Now, as to Pelosi, I thought at one point that Pelosi could be a drag on Hillary because Hillary has been trying to stay in the center, avoid substantive answers on anything so as to avoid being portrayed as a liberal, which is death. Now, Pelosi is the exact opposite. Pelosi is a full-fledged liberal, is proud of it, and out there talking about it. But she hasn\u2019t been saying much lately.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You may be on to something about that. Pelosi, when she was elected, thought she was running that town.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Mrs. Clinton saying at home, ‘Go ahead, Ms. Pelosi, you think you\u2019re running this town; I\u2019ll show you who\u2019s running this town in a few short months.\u2019 I don\u2019t think there\u2019s going to be any drag. I think Hillary is her biggest drag. Hillary is the biggest drag on Hillary. You know, this business about women voting for Hillary or not, and Democrats, whether the country is going to vote for a black, the bottom line, it\u2019s simple. It really is about whether the country wants socialism in its leaders. You want socialists, you want a socialist government. This race stuff, we are so past that, and we\u2019re so past the women thing. The Brits have elected Margaret Thatcher; the world is used to successful women leaders. This is just the way the Democrats look at things. Snerdley pointed something out to me. Let me use myself as an example here. I started this program in 1988, and all businesses — this is not a criticism of anybody. It\u2019s an illustration. In 1988, there was no such thing as the successful syndicated radio program in the daytime. Additionally, there was no such thing as a radio talk show at any time that did not have guests. All of the experts, the people that study ratings and all that sort of stuff, all of these people wished me well, but they said this isn\u2019t going to happen. <\/p>\n

Well, of course, both have happened. The most successful syndicated radio show in history, long form, is in the daytime, and it has no guests, rarely has guests. There was another thing, AM radio was on the way out. There was no reason to listen to AM, because FM is playing music and is much better quality, AM static, no reason to listen. AM is thriving. So all the conventional wisdom went down the tubes and it went down the tubes on the power of content. It went down the tubes on the strength of content, quality. People listen to this program because it\u2019s a good show. They like listening to it. It offers them lots of things. Well, politics is the same way. We have these pollsters, and these political scientists, and these experts, they\u2019re already looking down the road to November of \u201908, 13 months away and they\u2019re already casting lines in the water, ‘This ain\u2019t going to work, and that can\u2019t work, and Hillary can\u2019t get the black vote or white vote; Democrats can\u2019t run these two candidates because the country\u2019s still racist, sexist, and bigoted and so forth,\u2019 and that\u2019s how they look at the country. <\/p>\n

I guarantee you, if Margaret Thatcher had been an American and had run for president, at the time she was elected prime minister in Great Britain, she would have won in this country, and had the timing been different than Reagan. If somebody like Justice Thomas ever wanted to run for president, I guarantee you he would win the White House. It\u2019s about content and quality. It\u2019s about the power of personality and leadership, and Mrs. Clinton is not exhibiting any. Mrs. Clinton\u2019s gone into prevent defense, folks. Mrs. Clinton is avoiding tough questions. She\u2019s sitting comfortably with this national 30-point lead over Obama. And if you believe that, then I\u2019ve got a couple things I\u2019d like to sell you. It doesn\u2019t mean anything right now, that poll. None of these polls mean anything, but Mrs. Clinton is not dynamic. She is not likable. She does not have charisma. And she has yet been anointed. She\u2019s probably going to win the nomination, but that\u2019s not even a slam-dunk yet because not a vote\u2019s been cast. She\u2019s no slam-dunk for the White House. She\u2019s not new; she\u2019s not dynamic; she doesn\u2019t have the power of content and personality leading her. She\u2019s trying to hide all of that. She\u2019s trying to hide the content because she doesn\u2019t have any, or it\u2019s dangerous to her if her genuine content got out of there. <\/p>\n

What do you think the laugh is all about? That\u2019s the other thing the Democrats are worried about is that laugh. They really are. They ought to be. That laugh is not normal. It doesn\u2019t happen at normal times. It doesn\u2019t happen when there are things that are funny to laugh about. That\u2019s weird. That laugh is just odd. It\u2019s uncomfortable and everybody has a feeling about it when they hear it, ‘Wait a minute, why\u2019s she laughing? There\u2019s nothing funny about the question that she was just asked.\u2019 She laughs because she doesn\u2019t like the question. The laugh is a signal to the guy that asked the question, ‘Do you like your testicles attached, or do you want them in my lockbox?\u2019 That\u2019s how people look at her. This sense of inevitability. So the conventional wisdom on so many things can be proven wrong with content, quality, the power of personality in an individual, and admit it, folks, isn\u2019t that what we\u2019re all looking for here, and we don\u2019t think we\u2019ve got, we don\u2019t think we\u2019ve found yet? You dig deep in yourself and ask yourself that, you\u2019ll find that\u2019s exactly what is bothering you about this. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see. I referenced this story earlier. Here\u2019s a great example of Mrs. Clinton not taking on serious questions and issues and purposely setting it up so she doesn\u2019t have to. Brent Bozell in a piece posted yesterday at a number of places, Media Research Center and NewsBusters.org. ‘Hillary\u2019s Sunday morning interview blitz of September 23. Why do the media pine for her so? Michelle Cottle of the New Republic gave the typical liberal answer: ‘She\u2019s a celebrity. She and Bill have passed some point where they\u2019re no longer just politicians. They\u2019re rock stars.” So to media groupies, if you\u2019re rock stars, you\u2019re rock stars, no questions asked, and you\u2019re qualified to do whatever you want to do and get away with whatever you want to try to get away with. ‘There is absolutely no doubt that liberals really do think of the Clintons in rock-star terms, and the ‘objective\u2019 media have not merely treated them that way with a long-running assembly line of dazzled profiles and shoe-polishing interviews. … On CNN, Washington Post reporter Anne Kornblut explained that Hillary always ‘picks her targets\u2019 in the media in a very calculating way. ‘When she decided to talk to the Washington Post, she picked columnists that she wanted to speak to, and … hasn\u2019t done interviews with the beat reporters, for example. And this is not just true of the Washington Post. It\u2019s true everywhere. And it\u2019s worked to her benefit so far, but it\u2019s a very specific strategy.\u2019<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s an example of a reporter who\u2019s being dodged. Anne Kornblut will not get an interview with Hillary. That\u2019s fine with Anne Kornblut, because she thinks the strategy is masterful. So this is allowing Hillary to assume things about herself that aren\u2019t true, that she is running away with everything. The Drive-Bys do love her. This rock star analogy of Bozell\u2019s is brilliant. It does explain why they\u2019re treated the way they are. Look, rock stars, that\u2019s a specific analogy, rock stars get away with trashing hotel rooms, they get away with all kinds of reprobate behavior, and they\u2019re still loved, admired, adored, and looked up to in groupie fashion, and, by gosh, that is exactly the way the Clintons are looked at. So she\u2019s hiding, she\u2019s gone into her prevent defense. We have a saying in football: The prevent defense prevents one thing — victory. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I think it\u2019s funny. Hillary Clinton goes out there without objection, she can pick reporters that she wants to speak to. Yet George W. Bush was interviewed by Juan Williams of the Fox News Channel. He also works at NPR. NPR refused to run Juan Williams\u2019 interview with George W. Bush because Bush picked Williams for the interview. But Hillary is praised for picking reporters. This is a grand strategy that she\u2019s exceedingly doing well with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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