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RUSH: Tom Brokaw showed up last night on Charlie Rose. He was on MSNBC as well. Charlie Rose said, “I begin with that because you have spent an enormous amount of time reaching out and looking at America and where it is.” So, Tom, as you\u2019re looking out there at America, what do you see now, Tom?<\/p>\n

BROKAW: I thought about my own lifetime. I was born in 1940, right before the war, and I think there have been about eight big ideas in my lifetime: mobilizing for the war, GI Bill of Rights, Kennedy saying we\u2019re gonna go to the moon, the Civil Rights Act, Nixon saying we\u2019re gonna open relations with China, Ronald Reagan staring down the Soviet Union and the Cold War ends without a shot being fired. We\u2019re trapped in a lot of little ideas in this country at the moment, and they don\u2019t seem to be serving anybody particularly well.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So that\u2019s Tom\u2019s attempt to explain the election results last night. You\u2019re saying, “What the hell was that? Why is Rush playing that sound bite?” I asked myself the same thing, but what it means is — (interruption) No, I did. It\u2019s just his version of Peter Jennings temper tantrum is all it is. (imitating Brokaw) “Little ideas. Back when I was a newsman, back when I was an anchor it was all about big stuff. This stuff happening now, don\u2019t bother me with it. You got me on here to talk about what the kids are doing. I got better things to do, Charlie, than to come on your show and talk about this Podunk stuff here.<\/p>\n

“Back when I was a newsman, back when I was with Peter Jennings and Cronkite and Rather, we did big stuff. We stopped Reagan, we tried to stop Reagan from defeating the Soviet Union, but he beat us. We did get rid of Nixon, you know, and we convinced Kennedy to go to the moon. And we convinced Kissinger to go to China to save Nixon. We did all kinds of big things in the media. But now this Podunk stuff, I don\u2019t have time for it, Charlie.” Obamacare was their hundred year dream. What Tom Brokaw has to do here is minimize this outcome. Exactly what I told you yesterday they\u2019re gonna do. They gonna trivialize it, delegitimize it, minimalize it. Doesn\u2019t think what you think it means.<\/p>\n

One more. Charlie Rose said, “That person with the bully pulpit, Tom, that\u2019s the president. Regardless of whether the Senate\u2019s Republican or Democrat — and the House will certainly be Republican — the president\u2019s at the White House. He has the bully pulpit. And it is his responsibility, is it not, to offer the leadership and take the lead in trying to set the tone for the final years of his presidency?”<\/p>\n

BROKAW: A lot of this has to do with the fact that he gets hammered 24\/7 by Fox News on the right and by talk radio, which is a huge voice in this country. I was in the Midwest the other day listening to talk radio. I don\u2019t know who the guy was, but he was saying, “Obama\u2019s voters are people who live in excrement.” That was his phrase! “And they — they expect us to lift them out of excrement.” I\u2019m not gonna lift a hand to lift them out.” That was the kind of language that was going on. At some point, that penetrates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. He was reading a Democrat website. He wasn\u2019t listening to talk radio. Anyway, so you see, this is all because talk radio — which is really big, Charlie, in this country; it\u2019s really big — and Fox News, all they do is hammer Obama. So it doesn\u2019t mean anything. Don\u2019t worry, Charlie, everything\u2019s cool. If I have to, I\u2019ll come back and be a real newsman again to show you, but don\u2019t sweat it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, before we go to the break here, I want to go back to the archives, the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites. We just had Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose, in which Brokaw tried to say that this election doesn\u2019t mean anything because it was about small things, so many small things. He doesn\u2019t even really know what they all are. So many small things.<\/p>\n

But back when he was doing the news, back when Tom Brokaw was reading the news teleprompter every day, that\u2019s when big stuff was happening. That\u2019s when we had Nixon going to China, and that\u2019s when we had Reagan taking on the Soviet Union, and that\u2019s we have Kennedy taking us to the moon. But this stuff going on now is chump change and it doesn\u2019t mean anything.<\/p>\n

Really? Saving the country from socialism is not a big idea, Tom? But see if you\u2019ll recall this. This is October 30th, 2008, same show, Charlie Rose Show. Folks, this is a week prior to the 2008 election, a week prior to what turned out to be an historic election in the country, the first African-American president in our history, Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose talking about Obama.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t know what Barack Obama\u2019s worldview is.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: No, I don\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t know how he really sees where China is.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: We don\u2019t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Yeah, it\u2019s an interesting question.<\/p>\n

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Two of them. I don\u2019t know what books he\u2019s read.<\/p>\n

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?<\/p>\n

BROKAW: There\u2019s a lot about him we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. And the sad thing is, they still don\u2019t, even now. These two guys still don\u2019t, in the midst of an abject national calamity and near-disaster, these guys still don\u2019t know who Barack Obama is. They still remain clueless. They remain clueless about the import of last night and what it was all about, and all day yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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