RUSH: Dana in Ottawa, Illinois. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I’m thrilled to speak with you today.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I admire you a lot. To get right to it, I did call to disagree with you in some respect about this not being a GOP versus Democrat movement. And to illustrate that, I’d like to go back to your point about there is no leader of this movement, and —
RUSH: You’re nervous.
RUSH: Now, let me address the second thing you mentioned first, and that is all these people that showed up deserve better from the media.
CALLER: Yes, they do.
RUSH: Yeah, they do, you’re absolutely right, it ain’t going to happen. I have long cautioned everybody, if you seek validation for your actions based on the media being accurate in their reporting of your actions, you’re going to be forever disappointed. The media is as much the enemy as is the Obama administration.
CALLER: Well, trust me when I tell you that I know that. I’m not surprised by it. But I am outraged by it because I mean this is verging on Pravda. I mean you look at those pictures on the television, you know, even MSNBC had a wide shot, an aerial view of this group of protesters, and they’re trying to tell people there were tens of thousands of people there? I’m not surprised; the people at the rally were not surprised. But it’s so disappointing, and I’m going to tell you, Rush, I spoke to a lot of people there, and we will come out in bigger numbers the next time, and I will do whatever it takes. I worked on Friday. I got on a bus for 16 hours, I knew it wasn’t going to be fun. I’m back at work today —
RUSH: But it was fun.
CALLER: — in Illinois.
RUSH: No wait. But it was fun. You did enjoy it.
CALLER: I did enjoy it.
RUSH: And you enjoyed it for all the reasons that you’ve mentioned. But we’ve gotta be really, really careful here, Dana, about this left versus right government thing. You mentioned third party, and we’ve been through this with Perot.
CALLER: I know that. I know that. And I think Perot helped Clinton get in, I don’t doubt that. I do believe there has to be a huge movement before people can vote that way.
RUSH: But a third party is not going to do anything other but ensure the reelection of Obama and every other Democrat running for office because even if you come up with a charismatic third-party presidential candidate, still isn’t going to have anybody of any significance running in that party for seats in Congress of the US Senate unless this movement happened to become the majority movement in the country, and that’s not what’s happening. I respectfully disagree with you here. I understand the anger at the Republican Party. Hell, I’ve got it, too. I’ve had it for a long, long time. But don’t make the mistake of thinking this is not a left versus right thing. This is a conservative ascendancy that’s going on out there. You didn’t show up and protest like this when the Republicans were in power.
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I know that a third party isn’t going to win diddly-squat. But, I am prepared for the next two to four years for some of you out there to hate me and despise me because of this. Because I’m well aware of the anti-Washington sentiment that exists and the desire to just throw the whole thing into the Potomac River and rebuild it. It does have to be rebuilt but you’re never going to throw it all in the Potomac River. And if you discount the role of Barack Obama in ginning up all this passion that’s leading to the protests, if you want to try to equate the Republican Party to what this radical bunch of leftists is doing, you’re going to have a tough time convincing me that there’s any similarity.
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RUSH: Folks, you gotta understand, let me put it to you this way: We are at the triage stage. We’ve gotta address the biggest emergency first, and that is stopping Obama. That has to happen. If that doesn’t happen then all the rest of this is academic. The second thing is, Ross Perot gave the White House to the Democrats in two successive elections, and I can show it to you in polling data, which I think I’m going to do tomorrow.