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RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s almost exactly what I was talking about yesterday. It\u2019s gonna be a great example, and I\u2019m actually glad I didn\u2019t get to it yesterday. I meant to get to it yesterday but didn\u2019t get to it yesterday so I\u2019m glad that it worked out. It almost always does work out for the best even when I have a mental lapse. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Yesterday on this program we had a call from a woman that launched me into essentially a one-hour series of monologues and explanations. The woman simply was expressing her frustration with how conservatives and Republicans are lied about in the media and what she wants to see done about it. I explained to her why she doesn\u2019t see what she wants and why, if she did, it wouldn\u2019t work. And I got a little personal and explained my learning curve in all of this<\/a>, starting 26 years ago. <\/p>\n

Well, as part of yesterday\u2019s audio sound bite roster I had three sound bites of Rand Paul on the Today Show with Savannah Guthrie. I had \u2019em ready to go, and I kept moving them, I kept intending to get to \u2019em at some point, then the show ended and I never got to \u2019em. Well, it turns out they\u2019re gonna work perfectly today with further developments that have happened, and it dovetails perfectly with that which I was discussing and explaining yesterday. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, so Rand Paul goes on the Today Show yesterday<\/a>, and he\u2019s interviewed by Savannah Guthrie, who is considered this harmless female anchor at the Today Show, when she is every bit the partisan firebrand that anybody else on the left is. She\u2019s the NBC White House correspondent, or has been. She had her own show on PMSNBC with F. Chuck Todd. She a radical, like they all are. <\/p>\n

My point is there\u2019s nothing in the middle about her. There\u2019s nothing moderate. There\u2019s nothing objective or any of that. She is a left-wing journalist on NBC, okay? So Rand Paul does battle with her, and doesn\u2019t accept some of her premises, some of her questions, and talks over her and so forth. This has caused a controversial reaction. I was watching Fox News today. I don\u2019t want to mention any names here \u2019cause all that means is the people I name get hold of me and say, “No, no, you misunderstood,” when I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m not gonna mention their names. But they had two guests on there: One conservative, one liberal. The conservative guest said, “Well, you know, you gotta look at this two ways. What Rand Paul did with Savannah Guthrie on Today Show, for the base, they love it. That\u2019s exactly what they want to see. The base wants to see these candidates fire back. ‘The media\u2019s unfair. The media\u2019s biased!\u2019<\/p>\n

“But — but — but the rest of the country doesn\u2019t like it. The rest of the country wants to see somebody with a presidential temperament that doesn\u2019t let the press rattle \u2019em, and in that sense Rand Paul did not help himself.” And they cut to the Democrat strategerist who said, “Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? The Today Show, a font of radical leftism? Give me a break. It\u2019s bagels and cream cheese and coffee! There\u2019s nothing radical about it. Rand Paul really hurt himself.” <\/p>\n

<\/a>Everybody I\u2019ve spoken to personally think Rand Paul scored and scored and scored again. <\/p>\n

You listen to these inside-the-Beltway experts, and they think he blew it. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. And yeah, yeah, yeah, we\u2019ll get to some boy. He really rammed it down somebody\u2019s throat on abortion. I don\u2019t mean that to sound literal, there, but that\u2019s coming up. But this is yesterday on the Today Show, and Savannah Guthrie says, “You are now officially a candidate for president. Let me ask you about the framework deal with Iran and whether or not you support it. If a written in black and white exactly as President Obama described it and the Iranians agreed to it exactly as it\u2019s been described, is it a good deal, and would you support it?”<\/p>\n

PAUL: That\u2019s part of the problem. The Iranian foreign minister immediately came out writing in English saying that it meant something completely different than what President Obama said —<\/p>\n

GUTHRIE: R-r-right —<\/p>\n

PAUL: — and so part of the problem.<\/p>\n

GUTHRIE: — but —<\/p>\n

PAUL: Let me answer the question. <\/p>\n

GUTHRIE: — let\u2019s take that issue off the table.<\/p>\n

PAUL: Let me answer the question. The sincerity of the Iranians does make a big difference, and if they\u2019re immediately saying that the agreement doesn\u2019t mean what President Obama says, that is a big problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now, the way this dovetails with what I was telling you yesterday is that there\u2019s no way Rand Paul is gonna convince her of anything. There\u2019s no way, when this is over, that Savannah Guthrie is gonna say, “You know, I\u2019ve been wrong about this guy! You know what? This guy\u2019s making a lot of sense.” There\u2019s no way that\u2019s gonna happen. There\u2019s nothing he could do other than announce that he\u2019s changing to the Democrat Party to gain her favor.<\/p>\n

Other than that, this is a wasted effort. If the objective here is to try to get the media to understand Rand Paul and what he really means and what he\u2019s really saying, that isn\u2019t gonna happen here. Do not doubt me. She doesn\u2019t care what Rand Paul really thinks. All she cares about is how she can make him look, and how he looks to her is how any conservative or presidential Republican candidate looks. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got to be taken out. <\/p>\n

They have to be discredited. <\/p>\n

They have to be damaged in some way. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s all that\u2019s happening here. I mean, look. The press has been asleep for six and after years. All of a sudden now we got Republicans who want to be president and they wake up and they start doing their jobs? This the kind of stuff they should have been doing with Obama for 6-1\/2 years. They don\u2019t even get close to it. Now we got potential Republican presidential nominees, and now they\u2019re gonna treat \u2019em as suspects! But I\u2019m telling you.<\/p>\n