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RUSH: Our buddies at NewsBusters, Mark Finkelstein today, has a post. Andrea Mitchell. It\u2019s really funny. Republican operative Frank Donatelli was chatting this morning with a friend, he\u2019s e-mailing or IMing, instant messaging with a friend in London, and he\u2019s got MSNBC on in the background, Scarborough\u2019s show; and he\u2019s listening to what he thinks is an Obama campaign worker describe some policy; and he looks at Andrea Mitchell of NBC News. So Donatelli says, ‘Wow, this is Andrea Mitchell. I thought I was listening to an Obama campaign official.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Anyway, what was happening here was Andrea Mitchell was saying that ‘the old-fashioned supply-side economics of McCain\u2019s versus Obama\u2019s centrist economics is oriented toward helping people.\u2019 Now, two things — and then there\u2019s a column by Jim Wooten today, James Wooten, at the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation in which he\u2019s a little upset (and we have been here as well) over the fact that the Republicans are playing patty-cake and pussyfoot with Obama and that we\u2019re not going to be prepared to attack the guy. And they quote Huckabee as saying he thinks we should not, as a party, demonize Obama. Now, how does Huckabee define ‘demonizing\u2019 Obama? Huckabee defines demonizing Obama by calling him a ‘liberal senator.\u2019 So we are demonizing Obama if we call him a liberal anything and Huckabee thinks we shouldn\u2019t do it. There\u2019s a guy in Oklahoma — a bitter clinger, a Democrat congressman or whatever from Oklahoma. His last name is Boren, I think. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not going to endorse Obama. He\u2019s going to vote for him at the convention, but he\u2019s not gonna to endorse him and he\u2019s not going to vote for him because he\u2019s too liberal. So Democrats can say Obama\u2019s too liberal, but Huckabee says that our guys can\u2019t do it \u2019cause that\u2019s demonizing Obama. Then there\u2019s an LA Times story today about the Republicans preparing to make mincemeat of Michelle (My Belle) Obama and how that wouldn\u2019t be wise. And they quote Frank Luntz! They got hold of Frank Luntz, Fox News\u2019 favorite pollster, and Frank Luntz says, ‘I hate the fact that they\u2019re going to do this, that they\u2019re going to attack Michelle Obama. I hate the fact they\u2019re going to do it. Why, it\u2019s just unseemly!\u2019 I\u2019m paraphrasing. ‘It\u2019s just unseemly.\u2019 This is if the LA Times got this right. We always have to acknowledge that I\u2019m often misquoted out of context. <\/p>\n

We have to allow for the fact this might have happened here with Luntz. But they quote him as saying (I\u2019m paraphrasing it) that it\u2019s just not right to take basically a political neophyte like Michelle Obama, who doesn\u2019t quite yet understand what it\u2019s like to be in the fire of politics, and treat her like she\u2019s a veteran. ‘I hate that we\u2019re going to do this,\u2019 Luntz is quoted as saying. Now, here is the thing going on, two things going on. There are two things going on. The Drive-By Media is trying its best, trying its hardest to mainstream Obama\u2019s radicalism — and they\u2019re also trying to demonize Republicans and conservatives who criticize him or any of his associations. That\u2019s the big bait-and-switch. There\u2019s nothing radical about Obama. What\u2019s radical is the way the Republicans plan on attacking him and being critical of him during his campaign. <\/p>\n

The Drive-By Media is in full swing now. All of their legs are tingling, not just Chris Matthews\u2019. They\u2019re going to do everything they can to demonize Republicans and conservatives who criticize Obama while mainstreaming all this radicalism and the radicalism of his associates. So then they go out, and in this pursuit they get quotes from people like Luntz and Huckabee to help their cause. I know what\u2019s going on here. I am a student of the Drive-By Media. I understand exactly. They are more agenda oriented — at least openly. They are more open about their agenda and what they want to happen because, with the rise of the conservative media, they have now recognized they\u2019re in the competition here. So all their journalism is becoming opinion journalism unidentified as opinion journalism, and they\u2019re just doing it to advance their agenda. One more thing about Obama prior to hitting the next commercial break. <\/p>\n

‘Mitch McConnell delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding a Democrat majority\u2019s failure to address the need for increased production of oil and support for a gradual adjustment upward in the price of the pump,\u2019 and wait \u2019til we get to McCain on this. It\u2019s just maddening when we get to McCain on this. McCain, by the way, has admitted he doesn\u2019t know how to use a computer. He\u2019s computer illiterate. He says, ‘Cindy does all that.\u2019 Cindy does all the computer stuff. McCain doesn\u2019t know how. Anyway, here\u2019s what Obama said. ‘Obama suggested that rising gas prices are not the problem. The problem, he suggested, is they\u2019ve gone up too fast. He said he would prefer a ‘gradual adjustment.” So your Democrat Party presidential nominee is all for rising gas prices. He just wouldn\u2019t have had them go up this fast if he\u2019d had anything to do about it. There would have been a more gradual increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Our buddies at NewsBusters, Mark Finkelstein today, has a post. Andrea Mitchell. It\u2019s really funny. 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