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RUSH: Would you give me a break? You\u2019re surprised that Page Six-type gossip is on the front page of the New York Times? Where have you been? How in the world can anybody be surprised at the New York Times? I cannot believe how everybody\u2019s missing this! I even have guys from The Politico, Jonathan Martin saying, ‘You got a reaction?\u2019 I sent him a couple paragraphs, and it\u2019s being misinterpreted a bit. I guess I wasn\u2019t clear enough. Anyway, greetings, folks. Here we are with another three hours of broadcast excellence at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. It\u2019s great to have you with us. The telephone number is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

What have I always said that today is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt? It is this: If you let the media make you, you are subjecting yourself to the media being able to destroy you. Senator McCain — the important thing about what has happened here in the New York Times, the only important thing to me — I don\u2019t care what\u2019s in this story. The story is not the story. The story is that this paper endorsed McCain, sat on this story and now puts it out just prior to McCain wrapping up the nomination. And McCain says he\u2019s disappointed. Why? Why is anybody disappointed or surprised but this? They are who they are. A snake is a snake. A tiger is a tiger. The New York Times is the New York Times. Folks, if you expect me to be angry about the story and angry at the New York Times, you have tuned to the wrong radio show. I refuse to get mad when something I have predicted is going to happen, happens. I refuse to get mad when something I know is true, is true. It\u2019s a total waste of energy. <\/p>\n

The important question for John McCain today is, is he going to learn the right lesson from this, and what is the lesson? The lesson is liberals are to be defeated. You cannot walk across the aisle with them. You cannot reach across the aisle. You cannot welcome their media members on your bus and get all cozy with them and expect eternal love from them. You are a Republican. Whether you\u2019re a conservative Republican or not, you are a Republican. At some point, the people you cozy up to, either to do legislation or to get cozy media stories, are going to turn on you. They are snakes. If the right lesson is not learned from this, then it will have proved to be of no value. There\u2019s a great opportunity here for Senator McCain to learn the right lesson and understand who his friends are and who his enemies are. He\u2019s had that backwards for way too long. He has thought the New York Times is his friend. He has thought Chris Matthews and these other people in the Drive-By Media are his friends. They aren\u2019t. That\u2019s the lesson today. <\/p>\n

Senator McCain says that he\u2019s disappointed here in the New York Times. Of course, I\u2019m sure he\u2019s disappointed. The question is, is he surprised? If he\u2019s not surprised, that\u2019s a positive. If he\u2019s surprised by this, then we\u2019ve got a problem, Houston, because he doesn\u2019t understand who he\u2019s dealing with. You know, Senator McCain has disappointed me a lot of times, accusing our intelligence officers of engaging in torture, calling people who opposed his amnesty bill nativists, supporting others who called us racists and so forth, people who opposed campaign finance reform as people unwilling to clean up corruption and so forth. You look at this, and you see it for exactly what it is. Now, here\u2019s an interesting aspect here. You talk about the details of the story and how thinly sourced and all that. Yeah, right, yada yada. It\u2019s the Drive-By Media, for crying out loud. It\u2019s the New York Times reporting about a Republican. You know damn well a story like this wouldn\u2019t run about Hillary or Obama, even Bill Clinton, a story like this wouldn\u2019t run. If it did, it would be fawning. ‘Oh, there\u2019s old randy Bill out there, still showing us he got some lead in the pencil here after the heart surgery. Oh, yeah!\u2019 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand why it\u2019s so hard for the people on the Republican Party side to understand who the enemy is and who they\u2019re dealing with. This is another clear-cut illustration. But even now they\u2019re tiptoeing around, don\u2019t want to make \u2019em too mad because Senator McCain denied everything. He had a press conference today, denied everything. Better be right. You gotta ask yourself this about the New York Times. Did they put this story out as a singular story, or as their follow-up? You gotta figure they knew what was going to happen. You have to figure that they were aware of the firestorm that this would create. Do they have any more? Is there any more to the story? Are other people going to now start working it? Will they find anything? Will Senator McCain\u2019s denials be brought back into question? Let\u2019s listen to Senator McCain this morning. He\u2019s in Toledo, Ohio, with his wife, Cindy, at a press conference. We have a couple sound bites.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I\u2019m very disappointed in the article. It\u2019s not true. As has been pointed out, I\u2019ve served this nation honorably for more than a half a century. When I was 17, I raised my hand and supported — said I would support and defend this nation, and I\u2019ve had the honor of serving it ever since. At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust nor make a decision which in any way would not be in the public interest and would favor anyone or any organization.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so Senator McCain there says he\u2019s very, very disappointed in the New York Times. Let\u2019s not forget that during immigration battles, illegal immigration battles, this whole Abu Ghraib situation, and the ability to make our intelligence officers at Guantanamo Bay out to be torturers and so forth, and the call to close down Guantanamo Bay, where did all that stuff come from? The New York Times. Day in and day out. You know how many front-page stories there were on Abu Ghraib? And guess who was right there agreeing with everything they said? The New York Times\u2019 favorite Republican, John McCain. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s disappointed. The question, is he going to learn the right lesson from this? That\u2019s a great opportunity. If he can learn the right lesson from this and understand who his friends really are, then there may be a positive out of this. Now, folks, I understand, I\u2019ve read my e-mail today, and I had conversations with people last night when the story first came out. <\/p>\n

In fact, the theory last night, most people\u2019s predictions last night was that this was going to finally rally conservatives to McCain. McCain couldn\u2019t do it himself, but that the New York Times could and the Drive-By Media. I got some e-mails, ‘That\u2019s it, Rush, I hadn\u2019t planned on voting for McCain, but I\u2019m going to send him some money now. I\u2019m not going to sit here and let the New York Times destroy my candidate.\u2019 Well, you let the New York Times pick your candidate. The media picked the Republican Party candidate this year, folks, whether you want to believe it or not, they did. Republicans didn\u2019t, and so you see what happens. I want to go to back archives of this program, January 25th, 2008, this is what I said, this is my prediction.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: But you have to know now that when you get down to November, the New York Times has a choice — let\u2019s say it is McCain, say McCain gets the nomination. And, of course, Hillary gets the nomination for the Democrats. And the New York Times going to write an editorial endorsing who? Gotta get out of this mode here that our acceptance, or our arrival, or the fact that we\u2019re making progress can be tracked by whether or not Democrats like some of us. Screw that! Because when it comes to the meat-cracking time down there in November on Election Day, they\u2019re not going to vote for any of us, or our guys. So who cares what they say about them ever? The more they praise them, the more suspicious you gotta get, because they do not want our side to win. There is not one of them, from Matthews — I don\u2019t care who it is in the Drive-By, not one of them that wants McCain to become president. If it happens, if an accident happens and by hook or by crook, Hillary would lose, McCain would be acceptable. But they wouldn\u2019t be afraid of him. But the last thing they want is for him to actually win, any of our people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. And, of course, we had the New York Times story last night and in the paper this morning that clearly illustrates this. Here\u2019s one more bite from Senator McCain.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I\u2019m proud of my record of service to this country. I\u2019m proud of my service as chairman of the commerce committee, which has oversight of literally hundreds of issues, the largest committee in the United States Senate, in terms of jurisdiction, and I will continue to serve, and I will focus my attention in this campaign on the big issues, on the challenges that face this country, and I think that\u2019s what the American people are very interested in hearing about. Again, I\u2019m very disappointed in the New York Times piece. It\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the previous sound bite from Senator McCain that we just played, another section of his press conference this morning in Toledo, Ohio, he again reminded us that he has served the nation honorably for more than a half century. When he was 17 he raised his hand and supported to defend and protect the nation, had the honor of serving the country ever since. What? Military service is supposed to inoculate you from criticism? Ask General Petraeus about that. When are we going to learn our lessons? No, no. When are some in our party going to learn the lessons that you and I have known for years and years and years and years? David Brooks, Bill Kristol write for the New York Times. Their newspaper has attempted today to take out their boy. What are they going to do? Here\u2019s Cindy McCain. She spoke also.<\/p>\n

MRS. MCCAIN: Well, obviously, I\u2019m very disappointed in the New York Times, and more importantly my children and I not only trust my husband, but know that he would never do anything to not only disappoint our family, but disappoint the people of America. He\u2019s a man of great character, and I\u2019m very, very disappointed in the New York Times.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it seems to be the slug line, ‘I\u2019m very disappointed in the New York Times.\u2019 Why? Where are the honest, understood expectations here? The story is not the story. The story is the Drive-By Media turning on it\u2019s favorite maverick trying to take him out. The media picked the Republican candidate. The New York Times endorsed that candidate while they sat on this story, and now with utter predictability, they are trying to destroy him. This is what you get when you walk across the aisle and try to make these people your friends. Why should any of us be surprised or even angry at what the New York Times is doing here trying to take out John McCain? Those of you who listen regularly should have been expecting this all along because it\u2019s utterly predictable. It\u2019s as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. It\u2019s as predictable as Ted Kennedy finding a bar at happy hour.<\/p>\n

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