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RUSH: I\u2019ve got 47 sound bites and I got through one of them so far. So what I\u2019m going to do, I\u2019m going to broom all the sound bites about me. That will cut it down to about 27 sound bites. If I just get rid of the sound bites about me, like I don\u2019t care what Bill Maher and Joy Behar say, or Whoopi Goldberg. I couldn\u2019t care less what they say about me. You think it\u2019s entertaining to hear this? It\u2019s a waste of time to me. <\/p>\n

Okay, here we go, last night, MessNBC, Last Word, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell had on the supposed comedian Bill Maher. They\u2019re talking about Christine O\u2019Donnell, First Amendment, separation church and state. The arrogant, condescending Lawrence O\u2019Donnell said, ‘How do you think the crazier candidates — Christine O\u2019Donnell, Paladino — how do you think they\u2019ve been handling their liabilities? Christine O\u2019Donnell does a commercial saying, ‘I\u2019m not a witch,\u2019 they have real challenges in dealing with these liabilities like we\u2019ve never seen before.\u2019<\/p>\n

MAHER: She thinks because she has been living in this Fox News, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh bubble for so long that he\u2019s the one who doesn\u2019t understand what the Constitution is. It was at a law school so they\u2019re all laughing at her. She thinks separation of church and state, the concept, is not in the Constitution. So when Chris Coons actually quotes the Constitution, she says, ‘Yeah, that\u2019s in the First Amendment?\u2019 (laughing) Yes, Christine, it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, here\u2019s the arrogance and the condescension. It\u2019s not. I\u2019ve told you, I live in Literalville. There is not a whole lot of gray in Literalville. There\u2019s a lot of black and white in Literalville. It\u2019s not in the Constitution conceptually, contextually, or otherwise. The Founding Fathers never once wrote anything about there being a wall of separation between religion and government and the people. These people are interpreting it to say Pat Robertson shouldn\u2019t run for office, or Jerry Falwell shouldn\u2019t run for office, or devout Christians shouldn\u2019t run for office. That\u2019s how they\u2019ve interpreted it. They\u2019re scared of it. But the wall doesn\u2019t exist. This is classic. These are the ‘smart people,\u2019 O\u2019Donnell and Bill Maher. In their own self-appointed worlds, they are the smart people and O\u2019Donnell\u2019s the dunce. That\u2019s the template, yet she\u2019s the one that\u2019s right. And as I said yesterday, the scary thing is not what she said, the scary thing is that a bunch of law students laughed at her, a bunch of law students who obviously are being maleducated, ill-educated or what have you. Lawrence O\u2019Donnell and Bill Maher epitomize the ugliness of liberalism. They are stupid and smug about it at the same time.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, I\u2019m really curious to know if these liberals elites like Lawrence O\u2019Donnell and Bill Maher and all the rest of them — I wonder if they — realize that a lot of states did have official churches at the time of the First Amendment\u2019s adoption. I wonder if they even know that. Why would they know it? They haven\u2019t attended schools that teach the truth about this country in many, many moons.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Bob in Framingham, Massachusetts, nice to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. You know, I wish I was on the Christine O\u2019Donnell campaign team, because I think she\u2019s missing the boat. All she has to do is nationalize the election and skip the rest. All she has to do is just run short ads saying, ‘Coons equals Obamacare. O\u2019Donnell equals no Obamacare. Coons equals cap and trade, cap and tax. O\u2019Donnell equals no cap and trade, cap and tax.\u2019 Case closed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You may be right. I believe in the nationalization of elections. There are some people on her team, though, that think, look, this is Delaware, we\u2019re talking, what, 70,000 voters, I don\u2019t know what the population is, and most of them are liberal, Democrat. So their philosophy is —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Most people are against Obamacare and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — they\u2019re against cap and trade.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: She needs to clarify that Coons is a vote for Obamacare and Coons is a vote for cap and trade. She should just stress that in her ads and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but see, you\u2019re assuming that most people in Delaware oppose Obama. We don\u2019t know this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But that\u2019s what she\u2019s gotta ride on because, look at it this way, the Republicans are opposed to Obama, the ones that are holding back are getting fed this mantra that she\u2019s not smart, et cetera, et cetera. All she has to do is say, ‘What counts is how I\u2019m gonna vote in the Senate and that\u2019s all that should count,\u2019 and she\u2019s gonna vote for a strong economy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s all she has to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll grant you, I\u2019ll grant you. Brevity is the soul of wit, there\u2019s no question. The simpler and more direct she can make the message, the better off, no doubt about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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