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RUSH: Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer talking to Axelrod, says, ‘When John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House, was here talking about the things where the two sides could work together, I said, ‘Why don\u2019t you and the president announce jointly that the two of you will pledge to try to stop smoking?\u2019 Do you think the president would be willing to join in some kind of a campaign like that?\u2019<\/p>\n

AXELROD: You know, we sorta started that campaign, Bob, because we — we — we waged a big battle in the Congress to get the FDA to regulate tobacco so that we could stop the marketing of these products to children.<\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: But he still smokes.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: Yeah, but the president, uh, has — is doing a pretty good job on that, by the way, but — but the bigger issue is this. They can be role models for sure, but, if we allow the tobacco companies to market their products to children, then we\u2019re creating a whole new generation of people who are addicted to tobacco.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I watched the fascinating episode of Mad Men last night. It\u2019s the penultimate episode for this current season, which is season four. Look, I don\u2019t know how many of you are TiVoing this. If you are, this is going to be a spoiler alert. If you\u2019re TiVoing it and you haven\u2019t watched it, turn the radio off for a minute or so because I really have to tell this story and I\u2019m not trying to spoil this for you. The new agency… I\u2019ll give you five, four, three, two, one. You should be gone by now; if you\u2019re not it\u2019s your problem. You\u2019ve been warned. Don Draper and his buddies founded this new agency and their number-one client was Lucky Strike cigarettes and that was $20 million, and that kept them afloat. They allowed them to start their own agency and branch off from the previous one that had been taken over by a British firm. <\/p>\n

Well, Lucky Strike took their business elsewhere and the agency is threatened. Now, the short version of the story is that Don Draper writes a letter to the New York Times that ends up being a full-page ad in which he denounces ever taking tobacco money as an advertising agent and an agency. The letter is an ad for his agency trying to attract business, and he says, ‘Look, nobody in the advertising agency can claim success for tobacco. It\u2019s addictive. There\u2019s no amount of promotion or advertising necessary to sell cigarettes. All you gotta do is get somebody to try \u2019em the first time and they\u2019re hooked. They can\u2019t do anything about it,\u2019 and this is an actual portrayal. This actually happened. One of the cofounders of Foote, Cone &amp; Belding actually did this back in the forties: Abandoned the advertising business because of tobacco. <\/p>\n

My point is here we are in 2010. This started in the forties, in the fifties, back when the health concerns became serious and the government got involved. But, as long ago as the forties, we have had people proselytizing and preaching against the ills of tobacco while so much of our society feeds off of the tax revenue and the sale of the product. So here is Axelrod in 2010! Boy, you would think an investor had one suit, not one lawsuit against a tobacco company. You would think these guys are still out there lying to congressional committees and Senate committees. ‘No, tobacco\u2019s not addictive. No, tobacco\u2019s perfectly healthy. Joe Camel is a wonderful cartoon character.\u2019 You would think that nobody\u2019s ever gone after tobacco before. Now, here\u2019s Axelrod in this sound bite. ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obama\u2019s doing a pretty job quitting there, but the bigger issue, they could be role models for children.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘But, if we allow the tobacco companies to market their products to children, we\u2019re creating a whole new generation of people addicted to tobacco\u2019? Mr. Axelrod, it\u2019s 2010! This is an illustration of how the Democrat playbook is simply recycled. This is nothing new. Who in the world does he think he\u2019s inspiring with a great political idea, a novel political idea for the Obama regime to stand behind? The Obama regime\u2019s leader smokes! Axelrod admitted it here, and now he\u2019s starting to jump on the tobacco companies. Even though people have been running against and suing and winning (eventually) the tobacco companies for 60, 70 years; and still the product is not banned, and still the taxes from tobacco fund children\u2019s health care programs and who the hell knows whatever else. Education? So we have all these phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 rollers out there denouncing it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a page from the Democrat Party playbook, all the while feeding off of it. On the one hand, they\u2019re so concerned for the people and ‘the children.\u2019 Why, this product can kill people! But they don\u2019t take the step of banning it. To me, it\u2019s ultimate hypocrisy. But the greater illustration here is how nothing the Democrats wail against is new. It\u2019s simply recycled bilge and drivel that\u2019s 70, 80, 90, 100 years old, and recycled to be something new for each generation coming to adulthood. Obama, I think said, Axelrod made him accept tobacco money for his Senate campaign. ‘You have to take it where you can get it. You have to take where you can get it,\u2019 and this is why people have been playing holier-than-thou with tobacco for years. Even Mr. Foote of Foote, Cone &amp; Belding was a chain smoker when he joined the American Cancer Society condemning tobacco. He eventually quit. He died recently at age 85. That\u2019s how I know any of this. He died in a convalescent home, by the way. He was a massively famous, famous guy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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