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RUSH: So let me see if I understand this, ladies and gentlemen. Joe Biden over the weekend wanted to know when Sarah Palin is going to go on a news talk show. This would be Obama\u2019s running mate here. Obama himself, of course, refusing to appear at every single one-on-one town hall debate proposed by McCain, Barack Obama refusing to show up there, has his vice president, ‘When\u2019s she going to go on television, huh?\u2019 and ABC, Charles Gibson, is going to spend two days with Sarah Palin doing a profile in Alaska, and The Politico is reporting that ABC is hunkering down as a news organization should, trying to research the toughest questions they can, not gotcha questions, not trick questions, but tough questions on policy and so forth. People have seen Sarah Palin in debates, they have seen her interviewed. Every time, since the moment this announcement of her candidacy has been made, since it was made, every time the libs and their cohorts in the media thought that they had her nailed to the wall as an incompetent, who is inexperienced, she rams it right back down their throats. This is going to be no different, and it\u2019s funny now, the desperation that the left has arrived at. Their guy has lost his lead in the polls, their guy cannot speak extemporaneously, their guy has lost his mojo. This guy has lost everything that he had. I\u2019m talking about Obama. <\/p>\n

The blogs, the kook fringe blogs, have just mounted some of the most ridiculous charges against Sarah Palin, so much so that multiple fact-checking organizations have put the lie to every one of them. Not one of these outrageous charges, banning books, opposing contraception, all this sort of stuff, not one of them is true. Kirsten Powers, who is a liberal media babe, she appears on Fox, she writes in the New York Post, is fed up with it. She has a column today in which she just rues the tack that the Democrats are taking and rips them for the mistake that they made. The title of her piece is, ‘How Obama Blew It.\u2019 I mean, even Newsweek\u2019s gotten into the act of fact-checking all these lies, and where do these lies start? These lies start in the kook fringe of the left-wing blogosphere and they got out there because the Drive-Bys just accepted it and ran with it, which is all redounding to our benefit, by the way. So much of this is just going as well as it could be expected to go because so many truths are being revealed to a wider, wider audience. In fact, the polling question we\u2019ve got now from Gallup, McCain up 15 points among independents. Now, this is a registered voters poll. This is not likely voters, so you have to think, okay, 15 points, likely voters is better, but registered voters we\u2019ll take. But how did he do that? How did all this happen? <\/p>\n

See, this is why we were so frustrated, folks, for so long. We were in the wilderness shouting to our own party, ‘You gotta listen to us!\u2019 Fifteen points up, registered voters in the Gallup daily tracking poll with independents? How do you think that happened? That happened with Mrs. Palin, and it happened with a conservative agenda. When the McCain campaign moved to the right, it brought these independents aboard. I\u2019ve always said this would happen if it were done properly. In addition, 20-point shift in white women for McCain. White women have moved from 50 to 42% in Obama\u2019s favor before the conventions to 53-41% for McCain now. That\u2019s a 20-point shift. That\u2019s ABC News. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites and listen to the Drive-Bys discuss polls. The same Drive-By Media who tell us that polls are everything, who judge the entire state of the country based on George Bush\u2019s approval polls, who judge the entire mood of the country based on their economic polls, suddenly now caution us that McCain\u2019s rise in the polls is meaningless, just a bounce, take a deep breath. Here\u2019s a montage. We have Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times; the demoted Chris Matthews, from DNCTV; Dan Blather from HDNet; NBC\u2019s Matt Lauer; Jeff Toobin at CNN, Mike Barnicle from the Boston Herald; and Mika Brzezinski from DNCTV.<\/p>\n

BROOKS: McCain is enjoying a bounce in the polls, stuff goes up, and then goes ‘boing,\u2019 right back down again.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: That bounce disappears after a week or two.<\/p>\n

RATHER: I\u2019m not a great believer in polls. They can disappear overnight.<\/p>\n

LAUER: We need to take a breath on these polls.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: We have to take a breath at this point because these polls have a half-life.<\/p>\n

TOOBIN: I also think people need to take a deep breath and relax. <\/p>\n

BARNICLE: Running down the daily polls yesterday and today. I think they\u2019re rather meaningless.<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: We know there tends to be an over-analysis of polls.<\/p>\n

GEIST: Tomorrow NBC\/Wall Street Journal polls come out and wipe all this other stuff off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So all of a sudden the polls don\u2019t mean anything now. Here\u2019s a bunch of news organizations which literally poll in order to create news and try to influence public opinion rather than take polls that reflect public opinion now all of a sudden say, ‘Ah, it doesn\u2019t matter.\u2019 They\u2019re so discombobulated. I do want to caution you about these polls precisely because they are used to shape public opinion. I don\u2019t trust \u2019em, either, \u2019cause I don\u2019t trust the people doing these polls. There\u2019s only one point in time in this cycle where they want to be right, and that is the last week of the election. Their credibility hinges on being right as it relates to the election returns. But from now until about a week, maybe weekend prior to the election, you\u2019re going to see these polls used as the Drive-Bys think they need to be used in order to help Obama. Now, I know that might sound like a rash statement, but come on, folks, we see it, we know it, the truth is there, it\u2019s apparent for all to see. <\/line>They\u2019re in the tank for Obama and they\u2019re going to do anything they can to get him elected, which is probably also going to redound to our benefit. But nevertheless, so they can put out a poll now that shows McCain way up among independents, way up among women, or way up in general. What was it over the weekend, USA Today\/Gallup had McCain up 10 among likely voters, and I got a bunch of e-mails at home, people all excited. I said, ‘Calm down, calm down. It won\u2019t long before that gap narrows and the press will do stories about the fighting comeback, the amazing resurgence of The One, Obama.\u2019 (interruption) Well, I know he\u2019s floundering badly. They\u2019re going to do everything they can. Some of the things that I have heard him say on the campaign trail over the weekend, I\u2019m beginning to question, not just this whole Messiah thing, but what\u2019s genuinely up there between the ears, what\u2019s really up there. I\u2019ve long thought — and we can go to the archives and establish this — I\u2019ve long thought this guy is an empty suit and is really good when things are written for him, but on his own he\u2019s one of these pseudo-intelligent people, these pseudo-intellectuals. <\/line><\/p>\n

He pulls it off with his manner of speaking and his aura of thoughtfulness and so forth. But it\u2019s not there, just isn\u2019t there. And I think, the Democrats, I asked last week, how long is it going to be before they realize they gotta get rid of Biden? I wonder how many of them are thinking, ‘Gee, what did we do here? We didn\u2019t even really vet this guy and he\u2019s our nominee.\u2019 They\u2019re just making mistake after mistake after mistake, but don\u2019t be fooled. This is going to be brutal. The people that want this guy elected are not going to let him stand in the way of his own success. They\u2019ll do whatever they can to help him. Let me play one more sound bite for you. The sound bites that you just heard, the montage of media bigs saying we need to take a breath on these polls, where did they get that spin? Where did they get that analysis? They got it, my friends, from the Obama campaign talking points. Here is CNN info babe Betty Nguyen interviewing campaign spokesman for Obama, Bill Burton.<\/p>\n

BURTON: Well, I think folks ought to take a deep breath. This is a close race, we\u2019re a deeply divided electorate. Trust me, nobody\u2019s losing any sleep at our campaign. These national polls right now are completely meaningless. These polls are going to go up and down and the national polls are pretty much completely meaningless at this point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And here is ‘US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House,\u2019 according to a BBC poll. And then his campaign advisor, David Plouffe, let me get this one for you, told a Washington Post reporter, ‘Your poll is wrong.\u2019 David Plouffe told the Washington Post reporter, ‘Your poll is wrong.\u2019 The poll that shows Obama losing 20 points to McCain with women, female voters, ‘Your poll\u2019s wrong.\u2019 Now, one caveat. I hate to say, Burton has a point here about national polls. Here\u2019s how they\u2019re worthwhile. They\u2019re worthwhile for pumping people up or depressing people, but it\u2019s these individual state polls that matter because this is a country that elects its president via the Electoral College, so the national polls are a good indication when your guy happens to be up in the national polls, yeah, yeah, can pump you up, keep motivated and so forth. On the contrary it can depress you if your guy is not doing well, but you gotta look at these state-by-state polls. (interruption) A question from the program observer. What is it, Mr. Snerdley? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. The Obama trend since last March has been plummeting, the Obama trend plummeting. Well, it was a steady decline. Now it\u2019s a plummet, in a lot of polls it is a plummet. He got no bounce, McCain and Palin did.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Barack Obama — The Messiah, the Most Merciful — just did a press conference to respond to President Bush today, who made a speech and some remarks about our success in Iraq. And it\u2019s funny. I knew Obama would have to do this, go out there. Whenever Bush does a press conference and talks about the success of the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the war on terror, the Democrats run out and say, ‘He\u2019s politicizing the war! He\u2019s politicizing the war!\u2019 They start crying foul, running around like stuck pigs. Of course, they can politicize the war all they want by ripping it, by hoping for defeat, by investing in defeat, by owning defeat. Bush goes out there and tells a great story about what\u2019s going on in Iraq — starting in January, maybe 8,000 US troops will come home from Iraq — and Obama gave his little remarks about the war. He always opposed it. It was wrong, drastic change in our foreign policy. <\/p>\n

They went to the Q&amp;A and asked him about polls. They asked the anointed one about polls, and he said the same thing that you just heard from our audio sound bite montage. ‘Well, you know, these polls are swinging up and they\u2019re swinging down. You gotta take a deep breath here.\u2019 That\u2019s their message today: that the polls don\u2019t count. Of course you can\u2019t blame \u2019em, except these are the people that live and die by the polls. By the way, here\u2019s another one. (laughing) I mentioned the BBC poll, by the way, which is a poll of people around the world, a majority of whom ostensibly want Obama. You watch how that one is played up while they ignored all these domestic polls. ‘Ahhh, it\u2019s just, you know, gotta take a deep breath. These things have a half-life. Ah, it\u2019s no big deal.\u2019 Watch them play up the BBC poll. That\u2019s what they will do. <\/p>\n

‘More Americans would cast ballots for Republican Sarah Palin than for Democrat Joe Biden if they were able to vote for a vice president independent of their presidential choice, a US poll released Tuesday found. CNN\/Opinion Research Corporation poll of 1,022 adults taken September 5-7 found that if voters were allowed to vote just for president in November, the result would be a statistical tie between\u2019 Obama and McCain, 49-48. But Palin trounces Biden 53-44, a nine-point edge. She is the difference in this campaign, and the difference is because she is a conservative. The identity politics of the left is fascinating to watch. All of these feminist women, all of these left-wing Democrat women are coming out and trashing her, for the most base of reasons, the most silly of reasons. <\/p>\n

Their worldview is being shaken up because, for example, this week they could not believe that I would support a woman. They could not believe that evangelicals would vote for a woman who works. They have such a narrow, cliched worldview of conservatives and religious people, that they cannot properly analyze anything. So whereas the people in our party and a lot of others who are excited about Sarah Palin, are excited about her not because she\u2019s a woman, because she\u2019s competent, because she\u2019s conservative, and because she\u2019s going to wipe this country with Obama\u2019s rear end before it\u2019s all over — and Joe Biden\u2019s, too. This is what we have been asking for. She delivers, she defends, she attacks. She represents everything that we believe in ideologically (for the most part; nobody is pure). <\/p>\n

And we have been waiting for this kind of elected political demonstration of leadership for the longest time, and we\u2019ve got it. We don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s a woman. We don\u2019t care if it\u2019s a black woman. We don\u2019t care if it\u2019s a Martian. But they are the ones that practice all this identity politics. Of course this is not the right. So many of the myths that are liberalism, are just blowing up in these people\u2019s faces, folks. I just love it. And some of them know it. Willie Brown, ‘The Democrats are in trouble — Former mayor of San Francisco, former speaker of the California Assembly, in TIME Magazine, sounded the alarm over Governor Palin.\u2019 Actually, TIME is reprinting this. He had an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle. ‘Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign. [T]he Republicans are now on offense,\u2019 as I said, ‘and Democrats are on defense. And we don\u2019t do well on defense.\u2019<\/p>\n

Willie Brown understands what the Democrats face. Here\u2019s something else. Whether it\u2019s Sarah Palin, her surge, or a new McCain ad smacking Obama around, the only effective response the Obama campaign has is to release a highly produced ad. Biden can\u2019t respond unscripted in an interview. He isn\u2019t an attack dog. He wets himself when Palin\u2019s name is mentioned, folks. Obama isn\u2019t any better. Obama either changes a previously held position or lies or wanders aimlessly in search of a thought when challenged with a simple question, because these guys cannot tell the truth. So they\u2019ve gotta remember what lie they told when so that they don\u2019t get contradicted. Every time — every time — Obama and Biden take to the airwaves, they screw things up worse than they were before they started talking. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of laughable, and it\u2019s entertaining to watch at the same time. Obama and Biden are McCain and Palin\u2019s best surrogates, unintentionally. Right now the Obama campaign desperately needs their candidate to be capable of going out in public and making his case. Go on the Sunday shows, do interview after interview and dazzle the folks the way Clinton did. But he can\u2019t. That strategy won\u2019t fly. It\u2019s not a viable option. Obama never looks or sounds presidential and the polls are just now beginning to reflect that, as more and more people are paying attention to Obama. You and I pay attention year round to this stuff, but traditionally, after the Labor Day holiday and the conventions, that\u2019s when people en masse start paying more attention. And the bloom is off the Obama rose. He just doesn\u2019t look or sound presidential, particularly off the cuff. <\/p>\n

The star, The Messiah, The One, is not a weapon to be deployed. As of right now, all Obama has is hope that Sarah Palin will make a mistake. You can\u2019t even count on his campaign staff, otherwise known as the Drive-By Media. They keep shooting themselves in the foot, too. Their angry bias, their smears, their second-rate propaganda isn\u2019t working and it is exposing them for who they are. More and more of Obama\u2019s campaign staff (i.e., the Drive-By Media) keeps being laid off, in fact, losing jobs. His campaign staff continues to shrink. So all that\u2019s left is the candidate: Barack Obama. That is why Obama will not debate McCain in town hall settings. The candidate is not capable of making his case. All these recent interviews have been disasters for Obama and Biden. Now Obama, all of a sudden, is starting to sound like a Republican. He\u2019s for charter schools. No, he\u2019s not, but he says so, and he\u2019s going to delay his tax increases \u2019til after the recession. I wonder what they\u2019re finding in their internal polling.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One thing that Obama — and he started this little press conference of his right at noon, right when this program started, so I have spies watching this thing for me because I can\u2019t read the closed-captioning of The Messiah\u2019s remarks at the same time I am hosting this program. But I am told that one of the things that Obama said is that he is glad that Bush is finally implementing the policy of withdrawal from Iraq that he\u2019s been advocating for years, as if it would have been possible to withdraw when Obama first suggested. We would have lost, not won. We would have withdrawn in defeat. This is the kind of arrogance — I don\u2019t think a majority of people are going to be fooled by this. People are very much aware, when it comes to the war, whatever people think about George W. Bush, they know one thing: They know he hasn\u2019t wavered and they know he hasn\u2019t buckled and he has not given up and he would not accept defeat. Whatever public opinion was, it was genuinely reflected in those polls — and I don\u2019t think it was, because I don\u2019t think the American people wanted to lose. I don\u2019t think they wanted to get out and lose like the Democrats thought. So, for Obama, this little man-child to come along now and try to take credit, ‘Bush is finally listening to me,\u2019 you know, the Drive-Bys went, ‘Wow that\u2019s really clever, that\u2019s sort of Clintonesque.\u2019 It ain\u2019t going to fly, folks. It isn\u2019t going to fly. The bloom is off the Obama rose. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, this afternoon in Riverside, Ohio, Obama held a press conference. Jake Tapper of ABC News said, ‘Do you wish you\u2019d asked a woman on your ticket? And what can you do to attract these women back?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: These are the same polls that had me 20 down last summer, that, uh, have s-swung wildly throughout this process. Uh, there is no doubt that Governor Palin attracted a lot of attention this week, uh, aaaand my general, uh, approach throughout this process has been not to worry about today\u2019s news or yesterday\u2019s polls, but to worry about, what is it that — where is it that I want to see the country? What is it that I\u2019m trying to accomplish?<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s Barack Obama once again wandering aimlessly for a thought when asked by Jake Tapper: How do you explain your 20 point drop in women and what you are going to do to get \u2019em back? (paraphrased) ‘Well, I don\u2019t care! I don\u2019t pay attention to polls. Polls don\u2019t matter. I\u2019m Barack Obama!\u2019 Now, this may be a first, because the Drive-Bys cut away from Obama and his press conference to cover Sarah Palin. Right in the middle of an Obama speech on education, the Drive-Bys all cut away away from him to this huge McCain-Palin rally. This had to drive the Obama war room crazy. They\u2019re cutting away from The Messiah for Sarah Palin! Here\u2019s a montage of how it happened at those networks.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If they\u2019ve got the will, if they\u2019ve got the grades…<\/p>\n

CONTESSA BREWER: Barack Obama speaking right now in Dayton, Ohio. Not far away, we\u2019re seeing aerial shots now of a crowd that has gathered for John McCain and Sarah Palin — and look at those crowds that have gathered! Let\u2019s listen. <\/p>\n

HEIDI COLLINS: There you have Senator Barack Obama. We will get to the other event, the other side of the coin, if you will, John McCain. <\/p>\n

BILL HEMMER: While that speech continues in Riverside, Ohio, 30 miles away in Lebanon, Ohio, Sarah Palin now introducing John McCain. Want to catch a quick shot of this from the Buckeye State. <\/p>\n

CROWD: (chanting and cheering) <\/p>\n

SARAH PALIN: So as the pollsters and the pundits were trying to write him off, you all knew better, the American voter knew better.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was Sarah Palin. They cut away from Obama to cover Sarah Palin. That, ladies and gentlemen, has to be a first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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