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INGRAHAM: In the Back of the Book segment tonight, radio talk show giant Rush Limbaugh [is] making waves over Tuesday\u2019s vote. He\u2019s been urging his Republican listeners in Texas and Ohio to vote for Hillary Clinton next week to keep the battle going within the Democratic Party. So could Rush Limbaugh really turn out to be Hillary\u2019s white knight? I spoke with him just a few hours ago. <\/p>\n

(begin videotape)<\/p>\n

<\/a> INGRAHAM: Rush, I understand that the Rush Limbaugh audience is mobilizing in Texas for Hillary. Am I hearing that right? <\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know if the audience is mobilizing or not. I am urging people — I am using a phrase, to Republicans. Our nominee is chosen. It\u2019s John McCain. Texas is open. And I want Hillary to stay in this, Laura. This is too good a soap opera. We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically, and it\u2019s obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it and don\u2019t have the stomach for it, as you probably know. We\u2019re getting all kinds of memos from the RNC, saying we\u2019re not going to be critical there. Mark McKinnon of McCain\u2019s campaign says he\u2019ll quit if they get critical over Obama. This is the presidency of the United States we\u2019re talking about. I want our party to win. I want the Democrats to lose. They\u2019re in the midst of tearing themselves apart right now. It is fascinating to watch, and it\u2019s all going to stop if Hillary loses. So, yeah, I\u2019m asking people to cross over and, if they can stomach it — I know it\u2019s a difficult thing to do, to vote for a Clinton, but it will sustain this soap opera, and it\u2019s something I think we need. It would be fun, too.<\/p>\n

INGRAHAM: I mean, Rush, Bill, and Hillary. Very strange bedfellows. I mean, I\u2019ve never heard of anything like that, but anything to keep the chaos going.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me tell you what the chaos is. Let me give you a great example. We had Michelle Obama, who was in Zanesville, Ohio talking to a bunch of people that live there. The income, average income is below the national average. So is the education level. And Michelle Obama is telling them, ‘Don\u2019t go into corporate America,\u2019 and she specified two things. Don\u2019t become a corporate lawyer, and don\u2019t become a hedge-fund operator. Now, Hillary was a corporate lawyer, and Chelsea is in the hedge-fund business. I think that Michelle Obama is seething over the attacks that the Clintons have made against her husband with that photo with, you know, Obama looking like Ayman al-Zawahiri; all of this talk about his middle name and so forth. I think this was Michelle Obama with a womb-to-womb, frontal attack on Hillary Clinton, and I think Hillary is seething. I think she knows this. I know most men probably would not pick this up, but this is juicy. It is just too good. The whole point of Michelle Obama\u2019s riff was not to talk to that audience in Zanesville. It is to appeal to Hillary Clinton. You\u2019ve got the Democrats wringing their hands over whether or not it was appropriate to have a non-black guy play Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live. This kind of stuff is stuff the Republicans can\u2019t do. The Republicans won\u2019t do it. But Hillary Clinton, this is what she\u2019s lived for, Laura. You know this. For 35 years, everything she has put up with since she left Yale and went to Arkansas with Bill, has been aimed at this moment. She just can\u2019t quit now. I see that they\u2019re threatening to sue in Texas over the selection process down there, delegate-wise, because you can vote twice with the caucuses and with the primaries. And if she loses next week, it\u2019s going to be a shame to have to play funeral music. I want the funeral music to play at some point to the Clintons, but not this early.<\/p>\n

INGRAHAM: Now, Rush, don\u2019t you think it\u2019s interesting that there are all these attempts to intimidate critics of Obama; intimidate them from speaking out, from making comments about his substance or lack thereof or his empty rhetoric or any of that; and, yet, John McCain kind of needs talk radio to do that. Yet, of course, John McCain has kept an arm\u2019s-length distance, to put it kindly, with talk radio.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is another reason why we need Hillary to stay in. Who started all this stuff? Who was the first person that leveled the charge that Obama may not be ‘black enough\u2019? This is stuff we can\u2019t say, Laura. This was started by an LA Times columnist who is black. Who was it that first used Obama\u2019s middle name of Hussein? It was not us. It was Bob Kerrey, over and over again, former Democrat senator of Nebraska. Who was it that talked about Obama not just using drugs, as he admitted in his book, but maybe even selling them and dealing them? It was Shaheen, Clinton\u2019s co-chair in New Hampshire. All of this stuff — the middle name, the drug dealing, the drug selling, the picture of Obama in the turban, all of this — has come from the Democrats, not us. The MO is, if somebody on the Republican side starts using his middle name, ‘Why, there\u2019s a foul. There\u2019s a violation.\u2019 But Obama can\u2019t get away with this. He doesn\u2019t want to be called a liberal. He didn\u2019t want his middle name to be used, and pretty soon, what\u2019s going to happen is — if we don\u2019t shut up or speak up about this — the Democrats are going to get away with telling Republicans what they can and can\u2019t say to the point that we\u2019re not going to be able to say anything. And this is my great fear: that people aren\u2019t going to have the guts to be critical of Obama on the serious things he deserves to be criticized for, such as his absolute ineptitude and danger on foreign policy, just for one example.<\/p>\n

(end videotape)<\/p>\n

INGRAHAM: And directly ahead, we\u2019ll have more of my interview with Rush Limbaugh. He\u2019ll take on the challenges of John McCain, coming right up. <\/p>\n

COMMERCIAL BREAK<\/p>\n

<\/a>INGRAHAM: Continuing now with my interview with Rush Limbaugh. <\/p>\n

(begin videotape)<\/p>\n

INGRAHAM: I want to switch gears now and really focus on McCain, Rush. Because earlier in the week, of course, the radio show host Cunningham went up at this forum and used Barack Obama\u2019s middle name — and, as you pointed out, Democrats had already used the name ‘Hussein\u2019 many times in referring to Barack Obama. And, yet, John McCain feels this absolute need to rush to the microphones and denounce this radio host, as if it\u2019s such a big deal. What did you make of that? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think this is some… I understand what Senator McCain is trying to do. He\u2019s trying to portray himself as above all of this guttural stuff, what he sees as guttural, and run a campaign of honor — and I don\u2019t have any problem with that. But the problem I do have with it is that it appears that it\u2019s an appeal to the media and it\u2019s an appeal to the Democrats. It\u2019s a desire to please them. I would love for Senator McCain to start treating liberal Democrats the way he is treating conservative Republicans. I\u2019d like to see him throw some of them under his bus. This crossing the aisle, reaching across the aisle, is fine and dandy — except it doesn\u2019t work. We always end up compromising our core principles to get anything done this way. We don\u2019t see mavericks in the Democrat Party. When we do, what do they do? They run them out of there. Joe Lieberman, Zell Miller. So I know what McCain\u2019s trying to do. He\u2019s trying to stay above the fray here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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