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Oct. 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 9, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Yeah, they did.
They reported it on CNN.
Oh, I got I got the audio coming up.
Oh, yeah, here we are, folks.
Uh Rush Limbaugh, a big smile on my face, a hearty laugh.
And three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead here from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number.
800 282-2882.
The email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
Big big big Republican debate.
It's at 4 o'clock this afternoon on CNBC.
Replayed tonight at 9 on PMS NBC, moderated by the partisan Chris Matthews.
Have some thoughts on this in just a second.
Remember, my friends, I am the friendliest, the most humble, harmless, lovable little fuzzball you could ever, ever know as a dynamic radio host.
And we demonstrate this day in and day out.
For example, look, ladies and gentlemen, what I am doing for you.
Not just for you, look what I am doing for all of America.
The phony soldier smear has tied up the Senate for days.
It has kept them distracted with me.
Rather than figuring out ways to control you.
And by the way, how about this headline here in the New York Times?
I'm going to take partial credit for this.
Democrats seem ready to extend wiretap powers.
Another disappointment for the lunatic fringe of the Democratic base.
The Democrats in the Senate are going to sign on to spying on people outside the country without warrants.
And I got a whole series of stories on these types of Democrat uh caves and uh and failures.
So while I have kept the Senate occupied, particularly the leadership of the Democrat side, uh kept them distracted, so they couldn't come up with ways to control you.
I am now for you and for all of America tying up Henry Waxman.
Instead of him poking his nose into your business, he's poking his nose into mine.
And that, my friends, is true service, not just to you, but to the country at large.
I mean, I think, you know, the Nobel Peace Prize is going to be awarded this Friday, and it's a close call, according to CNN, between Al Gore and me as to who will win the coveted peace prize this year.
Well, there's some Eskimo too that's up for it.
Um an Inuit uh tribe member is up for it.
So there's three of us a close race, but the front runners are considered to be Al Gore and me.
Now I might not win the prize, but they can never take this nomination away from me.
They can never take that away from me.
I might not win it, but I should, after the last ten days, folks, I should be the recipient of the medal of congressional distraction.
Because I have certainly pulled out of here's what CNN reported.
This was uh this was Sunday, actually, not this morning, it was a couple days ago on This Week at War.
Uh the uh anchor Tom Foreman reported this.
Quick question.
What do Rush Limbaugh and Al Gore have in common?
On Friday, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced among those nominated former Vice President Al Gore and radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, baby.
Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, as reported by CNN.
All right.
Um, as I say, they can never ever take this away from me.
Uh we're gonna get to the debate here.
I think uh something that I want to mention uh that starts at four o'clock this afternoon.
And and you know, Chris Matthews is the moderator of the debate.
And he was uh what do you say this?
I guess this morning on uh on on MSNBC is on with Joe Scarborough on Scarborough's show, and this is what he said about moderating the uh GOP debate tonight.
If somebody says I'm not independent, it's gonna be very hard for me to bite my tongue because for 20 years now I've paid the price of independence.
I've been tough on everybody.
I've taken it from the left wing blogs and the right wing blogs every night of my life for the last twenty years.
I don't mind him taking any shot at me tonight, but if they accuse me of being partisan, I'll go rip.
It's not about me.
It's about them and who's gonna be the next president in these very difficult times.
So he's gonna go rip if they accuse him of being partisan.
I don't know how many of you have seen the YouTube video of Matthews' interview in his latest book that's uh that's on uh uh with with John Stewart on what what Stewart show?
The Daily Show.
By the by the way, do you know what Air America is?
They've just started an atheist show.
Another brilliant programming decision from Air America.
They're not, they actually have named a host to do an atheist week or atheist hour or atheist show or something.
Right, going for the base.
They're damn right.
There's too much Christianity and religion on the radio elsewhere, they say.
So now we need to really shore up our base by going for the atheist audience.
Anyway, what Jon Stewart...
Jon Stewart has...
I mean, Matthews' book, I think is ninety-eight on uh on the Amazon list.
And I watched this interview and and Stuart just laughed at Chris Matthews over some of the life philosophies that are expressed uh in in the book, Life is a Campaign.
That may even be the title of it.
And and Stewart says this is none of this is real.
This is all phony.
This is the this is this is and he was laughing about it, and and on tape you see Matthews actually complaining, this is the worst interview of my life, as well.
You don't get it.
And so forth.
But the point is that that Stewart was laughing at him.
Now, I think in this debate, and this is everybody's uh focusing on the fact this is Fred Thompson's first debate in the Republican field.
But it is a little strange.
I I think partly this is this is all about elevating the statue of Chris Matthews as an NBC personality, letting him moderate them.
But the idea that he is not partisan is absurd.
Um he's in a tank for Hillary Clinton or this is we don't even need to chronicle this.
The fact that he gets hit from the left and gets hit from the right uh does not mean he's not partisan.
I mean, everybody gets hit from the left because they're just they're lunatics.
They hit everybody.
Uh Hill ABC hit Hillary Monday night on World News Tonight because of her vote on the Iran go-to-war resolution.
Uh going after their revolutionary guard.
And it was it was a it was a story that was inspired by move on.org.
Uh I mean, the left is out there attacking everybody.
They're just they're just they're unwound.
Uh so anyway, I think this.
If I were an advisor to any of these Republican candidates, what they have to be able to do tonight with Matthews is not attack him, laugh at him because of this.
The base of the Republican Party, conservatives, and a lot of people, a lot of independents, so-called independence moderates, know that something is really wrong with the media today.
It is really not what it used to be.
They've always been biased, they've always been partisan, but today it's worse than it has ever been.
The Republican candidates, all of them need to rev up the base.
The Republican base is not jazzed.
They just aren't jazzed.
They're not jazzed by anybody.
I mean, they're expressing their support in polls for this candidate or that, but there's no jazz.
What these guys have to realize is that Chris Matthews tonight is a moderator, represents what's gone wrong, what is terribly wrong with uh uh the media.
And uh by letting it be known that uh on uh half of these candidates, if they make some comment, humorous or otherwise, uh that they understand what they're up against with the media and what's happened to the media that Matthews represents it.
They can go a long way to revving the base.
What do you think led to uh among many things?
One one of the main things that led to McCain's precipitous fall from the inevitability of his own nomination as the Republican presidential candidate was that he went out and said the drive-by's were his base.
The Republican Party does not like people who sidle up and cozy up to the media.
The Republican base considers the media to be part of the enemy that has to be defeated and overcome.
And sitting there representing the drive-by media tonight that has to be defeated and overcome is Chris Matthews.
And so taking out after him, not as don't accuse him as being a partisan with the words, they're clever ways to do this.
Uh and if if he does rip, even better.
If one of them causes him to rip, it'd be fireworks, but I'm telling you, this is the kind of thing that will gin up the base.
Now, I know that political consultants say don't go after the media.
It's horrible if you start blaming media bias for your failures or decline.
No, I'm not saying blame them for failures or decline.
Attack them for what they've become.
They are as much an enemy to any Republican presidential nominee as the Democrat nominee is because they are on the same side as the Democrat nominee.
They are in bed with Hillary Clinton or whoever, Barack, whoever ends up winning that nomination.
And that's who they're going to be battling.
And to pretend and and to treat them with status that suggests that they are even handed, that they are uninterested in outcomes of this election, uh, that they're interested in fairness and objectivity is to ignore a salient enemy that they also face in uh in the upcoming election.
Quick time out here, we'll be back.
Watch to do on the big program today, so sit tight.
1972, I think this was Bangagong T Rex.
How about that football game last night?
Do you see that football game?
Five interceptions by Tony Romo, and they still win by one point on a 52-yard field goal.
Too bad the game was on ESPN.
Anyway, welcome back.
800-282-288-2.
The number to the phones quickly.
Eric in Charlotte, Virginia.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Yes, this is the Eric Woods guy that you said was the best caller you've ever had in your time of hosting a show.
I'm the guy who said mental that uh Democrats or liberalism is a form of mental illness, and I told you about that blacks, the analogy between the uh slave, the slave master, and the uh liberator or the print pimp, the prostitute and the preacher, and you're one of the main preachers that these people have to go after.
That's why they're doing this thing with the soldier stuff, but they have to go after the preacher, and you're the foremost preacher that the pimps have to go to in order to keep the prostitutes on the uh all within the harem here.
Well, this is a fascinating analogy.
I'm a preacher that the pimps have to go to the prostitutes for in order to keep them quiet.
Well, yeah, you know, the pimp's job is to speak bad or an evil about the preacher, and the preacher's job is to speak bad about the pimp.
The pimp is a truly bad guy, and the reason why the pimp has to speak bad about the preachers because he's trying to keep the prostitutes from going over to hear the preacher to get them converted.
And so I was saying that's what's going on with blacks in America and uh uh and the Democratic Party in particular, the way they're you know, they're the pimps, and uh we're in the middle of the room.
There's no question.
I mean, I I I I I understand your analogy, and I and I uh I do remember your call.
Well, Rush, I'm uh really, really, really, really ticked off at you right now, to be honest with you.
I love you like a brother, but I'm uh very ticked off with you because um about I'd say almost eight years ago.
No, no, it's been a little more than that.
Let's not go back eight years.
We only have three hours here.
Hey, man, you're right.
You're right.
But Rush.
Well, I usually am.
And that's a sign of my humility and I say that, folks.
Don't misunderstand.
Humility is honesty, and I'm not gonna be dishonest by denying uh that I'm right most of the what is your B?
What I mean you obvious you're ticked off at me.
What for?
Well, because you're just speaking negative about what the Democrats are versus what you need to be doing, is I asked you a number of years ago, if you were recruited and called to step up to the plate to run for pr no to be the president of the United States, would you take it?
You said yes.
Now, wait a minute, before you hang up on me, Rush.
I did not say I would take it.
No, you said the pay cut.
Look at Eric, you're you're you're you're wondering.
I wish you'd get I wish you'd get to the point.
I know why you called and you haven't gotten there yet.
My patient's wearing thin.
No, that is my point.
That the reason why is you're not putting forward, you're talking about the negatives of the Democrat instead of putting forward a candidate we need.
Right now, what we need, Rush, is if you were sacrificed your pocketbook, you make enough money to live on, you can retire right now any time you want.
You know that.
But if you were sacrificed just, I'd say five months, Rush.
Listen to me, Rush.
Come on, this is serious, man, because time's short.
But if you were sacrificed just five months again, what are you saying?
You want me to run for president?
I am saying you better run.
Listen to me, man, because this is important here.
If if Rush, if you just wouldn't have to be a big thing.
I thought he was gonna blame me for the base not being jazzed up.
Uh I am.
Well, well, you only been on the five minutes here.
Brevity is a solo wit.
We're losing the audience here, pal.
Get the we're not.
Yes, we are.
The audience is cheering me off.
The audience is trying to figure you out.
I'm trying to help them figure you out, because I'm having trouble figuring out where you're going.
No, the audience wants me.
They want to hear what I'm saying about you.
Rush, if you would sacrifice five months of your life and just step out there and say, okay, let me see if I'll get the nomination.
Because Rush, you will get it.
You will galvanize us in a way that you would ever never ever imagine.
Because right now, Fred Thompson is not going to really stir the conservative base, the pro-life base.
He's not.
He will get some.
Eric, look at I appreciate what you're saying, and I'm very flattered by it.
But here's the problem.
If I actually got into the race for the Republican nomination, I would win.
And the five months would not be five months.
The five months would turn into eight years.
Because I would win the presidency as well.
And you got to have a fire in your belly to do that.
And I love doing what I'm doing now.
I am I am uh I am doing what I was born to do.
What Snerdley wants to weigh in.
I've well, what?
What now?
Uh Snerdley wants to know, and this is this is playing off Eric's uh uh point.
Why is it what's the question?
Why is it that I why is it that I am considered the only conservative in the country today that we have?
Why am I considered the only conservative that we know people talk about my braggadocio and lack of humility all the time.
But I gotta tell you something.
I don't think of myself that the only conservative that we have.
I don't think of myself well, visible on the national stage.
There are a bunch of them that are visible on the national stage.
I don't think of myself that way as the only conservative that we have.
I think the better way to answer this is why are the Republican presidential candidates not as conservative as the base is, whether it's represented by me or some other talk show host or whoever.
And I could only take, you know, wild guesses at that, but I think fear has a lot to do with it, and plus where these people come from.
Uh many of them are Washington insiders, been politicians all their lives.
They play the equivocation game.
Think they got to go out and get the moderates, and think they're gonna go out and pick off some Democrats, pick off a little of that Democrat constituency, a little bit of that one, and then plus they play the let me try to be friends and get the love and support of the media game.
Uh and and to do that, uh you you uh you you can't follow the fire in your belly that is conservative.
And they may not be genuinely as conservative as we are.
And and we'd have to, you know, go into an in-depth explanation of why that is, and I think I just touched on some of the reasons.
I think there's a fear of being conservative on the part of a lot of people in public life because you get hit.
You get destroyed, you get aimed at, certainly.
You get targeted, all kinds of grief comes your way.
Uh and it and then you win.
If you stick to it, then you win.
If you fight back, pick your poison and pick your pick your your battles wisely.
You fight back, not all the time, but when it's necessary, and you win.
Because people like that.
Uh I you know, I I don't know these guys well enough personally to be able to explain why they're not conservative or why there hasn't been a conservative farm system.
Uh it's always puzzled me why, with the lessons of Ronald Reagan from the 80s, that somebody hasn't said that's how to do it.
Forty-nine state landslides coming out, coming running against a miserable Democrat incumbent, Jimmy Carter.
Uh we tell them how to do it.
We I know we tell them how to do it each and every day on this program.
Uh and and that's why people are angry, I guess, that uh that they're not paying attention, or that they're it's maybe their conservatism is not as uh thorough as uh as mine is or ours is.
Uh whatever.
I know it's it's uh it it's frustrating.
So in that sense, Eric, uh I have to spend time talking about the Democrats here, because the Democrats as currently constituted Pose one of the gravest threats to our country as we know it today that I have ever seen.
Particularly Mrs. Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton's a great piece in The American Thinker today.
And it's um it involves me.
It's it's by uh Kylie Ann Schiver.
It's it's pretty long, and I'm gonna link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com later this afternoon.
But its title is Hillary Soros, Olinski, and Rush.
And basically what the uh what the author of the piece does is describe in uh in different ways what I have been trying to tell you that the Democrats have in mind that they are wolves in sheep's clothing, that they're wearing camouflage, they're trying to portray themselves.
Mrs. Clinton is particularly as a centrist and a moderate when they are radicals.
They are socialist radicals who will do anything to get what they want, and they will expose what they really are going to do only after they get there.
They will not be honest and expose what they want to do before they get there because they would never get there.
They would be rejected.
Well, I guess I'll get into some of the details of this.
Happily, folks, I am Nobel Peace Prize nominee Rush Limbaugh, potentially winner.
This Friday, Al Gore has uh been campaigning for it.
And he is the um the acknowledged consensus front runner on this year's award, but I have been nominated, and I am in the hopper, as CNN reported on Sunday.
Welcome back.
Here's the phone number, 800-282-288-2, and the uh email address, uh Rush at EIB net.com.
All right.
Let me uh let me cherry pick this piece in The American Thinker, because it is uh it's it's quite long, and it's about in large part the recent dust up over the phony soldier, but it's not about that.
So don't don't don't get worried here, folks.
You know, you you critical to me for being diverted by spending so much time on this, and I'm I'm telling you, you gotta pick your battles when to respond and when not to.
This was one of those times to respond.
By the way, as I mentioned at the top of the program, I deserve a congressional medal for distracting them while all this was going on.
Anyway, Kylie Ann Schiver, the American thinker, Hillary Soros Alinsky and Rush.
In 1995, George Soros appeared on PBS with Charlie Rose and said this.
I like to influence policy.
I wasn't able to get to George Bush Sr., but now I think I have succeeded with my influence.
I now have great access in the Clinton administration.
There's no question about this.
We actually work together as a team.
If you want a complete rundown on all of Hillary's Soros, or Hillary's and Soros' nonprofit groups, uh, and how they work together in her plan to take over America, get yourself a copy of the book by her mentor, Saul Olinsky.
The name of the book is Rules for Radicals.
In it, you'll find the complete outline for throwing Judeo-Christian principles and honesty to the winds of revolutionary fervor.
Hillary Clinton has been the perfectly patient disciple of Olinsky's since she wrote her thesis about him, her senior year at Wellesley in 1969.
If her admiration of Olinsky had died with her thesis, nobody'd care, but it didn't.
He remained a close confident until his death.
And his tactical fingerprints are all over her projection of the false centrist image that she is manipulating to garner political power.
It's all in the book.
The first attack on Rush.
Hillary's media attack machine, Media Matters, first tried to get Hush Rush by getting him thrown off the Armed Forces radio network in May of 2004.
In a letter to Secretary Rumsfeld, they demanded Rush be silenced after his trivialization of the military misconduct at Abu Ghraib.
The gag on Rush was necessary, they wrote, to protect our troops from these reckless and dangerous messages, unquote.
Senator Harkin jumped on the Hush Rush campaign that time too, just as he is now, demanding balance in the media.
With taxpayer-funded liberal propaganda organ NPR being broadcast to the troops 24-7, it's hard to believe it anybody can feel at one hour a day of Rush Limbaugh is a threat to balance.
If anything, that one hour of Rush may be the only balance to the unending live stream of the war is lost, Harry Reed, and his Democrat followers, Tom Harkin, John Mertha, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy, which is a good point.
Those guys are all over NPR proclaiming defeat, demoralizing the troops, and NPR is heard 24-7 on Armed Forces Race.
Why we said in the Beginning of this program.
Everybody said when we started the libs, you you gotta get balance on that show of yours.
You have to get people on the other side of fair show.
No, no, no, no.
I am equal time.
You guys own every other media outlet there is.
This is it.
On our side, I am equal time.
I don't need to be balanced.
But this is the ruse that they have uh continued to use.
The only reason that Hillary Clinton keeps up the public facade of moderation and doesn't dare to go on record with her deep disdain for our military is that she is following the Alinsky model, which admonishes revolutionaries to milk their white middle class backgrounds and appearances to achieve the political power necessary to carry out the socialist revolution.
According to the Alinsky model of bloodless and socialist revolution, Rush Limbaugh represents a have, as opposed to a have not.
Now, what is Rush have that Hillary Clinton and Soros have not?
A lot, actually, good ideas being perhaps the first thing that comes to my mind, but in the current battle, what Limbaugh definitely has is an established and quite verifiable reputation for unabashed patriotism.
This reputation is so strong that as soon as somebody attacks it, then real living American armed forces and veterans immediately come to Limbaugh's defense.
George Soros, on the other hand, even has a hard time being recognized as an American citizen.
And Hillary Clinton, even though she voted for the war, has done all she could to squirm out of it without apologizing ever since the war became more difficult than bombing an aspirin factory in the middle of the night.
Russia's have patriotism status, and the Soros Clinton comparative have not status is the dynamic that makes Rush a prime target of their revolution.
They're using Alinsky's basic tactic in warfare against the haves, which Alinsky refers to as political jujitsu.
By the way, it's page 152 of his book Rules for Radicals.
This tactic advises the have nots to club the enemy to death with his own book of rules and regulations.
Russia's a great patriot, playing by the American Patriot rule book, but even a true patriot can be caught every now and then using one or two words that when taken out of context might be used to choke him on his own petard.
This works especially well for the revolutionaries in our high-tech age, and some of Soros' money goes to pay full-time listeners and media watchers at Media Matters to monitor every word of the haves.
In their battle the hush rush, preferably before he gets a chance to skewer Hillary in the general election campaign, Hillary and Soros are using their media attack machine, Media Matters, to apply Alinsky radical tactics number eight and ten.
The eighth rule, keep the pressure on.
And I, you know, this this goes uh this goes on and on.
But here's the conclusion.
In short, bringing down Rush or bursting the bubble of Rush supremacy, as George Soros might say, would prove more than a political plum in Hillary's pudding.
It might actually give her the throne of power in the Oval Office with George Soros her backer and enabler.
And the only one thing that remains to be seen is whether it'll be as easy to control the ballot box on election day as it apparently has been to control the Democrat Party.
Now people ask me frequently, when did this current iteration of Democrats, these radicals, these socialist libs, when did they surface?
Well, you can go back to the 60s and before that.
I mean, FDR was a lib, but he was not a radical.
The guy was a pure, he was a patriot.
He defended the country.
Those Democrats, Hubert Humphrey and those people, LBJ was strong armed and twisted people's arm, banged heads.
Jack Kennedy cut taxes like Ronald Reagan did.
Uh there are many theories to explain what happened to the Libs, but you know, you go to the class of 1974, the Democrats elected after Watergate in 1974, I think is where you can trace this current iteration, and they all come from this Alinsky school of thought, which is lie, obfuscate, mask yourself, and your real intentions.
Come across as middle class as you can, use the usual liberal things of supporting the little guy, supposedly standing for free speech, but in the reality of your life, you are working to form a total takeover of the government, with your ideas becoming paramount.
But you know you can't get there by being honest with anybody about what they are, so you have to put on a facade.
Uh and when this facade is uncovered, And when it is exposed by people like me, the people who are telling the truth about you, according to the Alinsky model, have to be taken out.
They have to be destroyed, discredited somehow.
Whatever it takes, it doesn't matter.
The truth is irrelevant.
Only getting the power and being able to make the big changeover in the way you want the country to be is important, and however you get there doesn't matter.
The truth is not a factor.
Facts are not factors.
And this I was talking earlier about the about the media.
The media's been incorporated into this.
The media uh they themselves share the same socialistic ideals as the uh as the Democrats do, because they're going to be one and the same.
They'll enjoy the power, they'll enjoy the social life that the Washington will feature with these people having uh Senator Powers, all kinds of factors here.
But first and foremost is their ideology.
Their radical ideology.
Uh and and average ordinary Americans today understand that there is something terribly wrong with the media.
It is getting worse.
They are not interested in facts, they are not interested in truth, they are interested in pushing an agenda.
They hide behind such words as fairness, being objective, uh, we try to get it right in this sort of thing.
But uh, we've got a guy moderating the debate tonight or this afternoon, the Republican debate who at a book party this past week talked about how the Bush administration's criminality has finally been proven or realized.
And he's out there saying he's not a partisan.
Now I know it's a throwaway line trying to sell a book which is not working, the books at 98 on the Amazon list.
But people in this country know there's something terribly wrong with the modern day Democrat Party.
Thirty-five percent of Democrats in a poll say that Bush knew about 9-11 before it happened, and thus had to let it happen.
One in five Democrats in a poll think that it would be better for the world if the United States lost the war in Iraq in the war on terror.
Uh average ordinary people, the people who make this country work, laboring away in anonymity, not seeking fame and frivolity and notoriety, they instinctively know that something is terribly wrong with the country.
And when they hear the Republican presidential candidates, they don't hear them addressing these wrongs.
They hear them discussing policy and so forth, which is all well and good, but there is something terribly, terribly wrong in the country and with the Democrat Party and with the media.
And if one of these candidates, or all of them, would simply find ways to acknowledge to their base that they understand this and that they know they've got to overcome this and beat this opposition down, it would rally the base like I don't know what else could at this stage of the of the campaign, because it's not going to be enough just to run against Mrs. Clinton.
Uh you you've got to give people reasons to vote for you.
Uh, you know, and there's, you know, the Republican Party is not a monolith.
There's all kinds of competing ideas that people putting pressure on certain candidates now.
If they don't, if they win the nomination, we're forming a third party here because we uh we'd rather have somebody in there that we oppose that we can fight rather than somebody we elected that we disagree with and can't oppose and fight.
So you know it's f it's really fluid, and it's it's taking on this whole campaign's taking on a life of its own uh in ways that nobody could foresee, which is why early on, is I'm not telling you who I prefer here because it's too soon, there's too much that can happen on both sides.
The Democrats are monolithic.
The Democrats, I care who the candidate is, says the same thing.
None of those Democrats are afraid to go after Hillary for a host of reasons.
She's gonna be the nominee, and it's gonna be up to the Republican nominee to be honest with the American people about what a presidency uh with Hillary Clinton would mean.
Uh it's not that hard, but it may take some guts to do it.
I gotta take a quick time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
One more thing here.
Uh the 13th tactic in um Saul Alinsky's book, and he's uh uh you know one of Hillary's uh gurus mentors, is this on page 130 of the book.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Well, at this stage, and for the last two years, I have been the target.
So they pick the target, then freeze it, personalize it and polarize it, and Just keep repeating the process until as many people as possible believe the smear.
So these smears are going to continue, and the efforts are going to continue.
One of the things that we've uh wow, I've spotted this.
You know, we've had on this program uh recently a large spate of seminar callers.
Uh they're easy to spot, and I like them.
They're fun, uh like to humor them and so forth, but I think they're all part of the ruse, and I think their purpose in calling is to is to create a circumstance where I or another host will say a couple of words that they can then take out of context.
I think it's all part of the ruse here.
So I told Sterling no more seminar callers.
I used to have fun with them, uh, but I'm not going to give them the uh the added opportunity.
Screw them.
Uh, you know, they're idiots anyway, and I know they get boring to listen to unless I, as a brilliant host, can make the whole experience fun.
Uh but it's not it it's not worth uh, you know, what's what's up here with the target having been picked, personalized, frozen et al.
Clark in New York City, I'm glad you uh waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, you're the best.
Well, thank you, sir.
Uh on the Chris Matthews choice uh for tonight.
Um, you know, if the Democrats agreed to have Rush Limbaugh moderate their next debate, uh I would think there'd be something intriguing at play.
But that's not the case.
Not not just that, the Democrats won't even go on Fox News.
That's right.
But that's not because they're afraid of it.
That is also the tactic.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Uh that's just an effort to delegitimize Fox in the eyes of people, in the eyes of voters.
It's and they're they're afraid to go there.
I mean, I uh take that back.
They are afraid, but the tactic is based on isolating Fox uh as something illegitimate.
Then the Republican Party must be tone-deaf or dumb for picking Chris Matthews, who's only gonna embarrass them tonight.
I don't think it's they picked him.
I think that they agreed to let MSNBC televise the debate.
Uh, and MSNBC picks the moderator.
Well, I'm sure that somebody has a say in who moderates uh.
Well, I I don't know, but I don't think the Republicans are gonna go there anyway.
I don't think they're gonna turn, unless it was just some somebody totally ridiculous.
But any Matthews does have the aura, as he's been presented by NBC as a journalist slash commentator.
He's look at the guy is out there saying he's not partisan.
He wrote Jimmy Carter's Malays speech in 1979, in which he blamed the American people uh for the malaise they were in.
He worked as a legislative aide for Tip O'Neill when Tip O'Neill was the speaker of the House.
Uh for him to say he's not a partisan is is somewhat is somewhat puzzling.
But you think the Republicans deserve what they're gonna get because they're allowing Matthews to be the uh moderator?
Yes.
So I got a different view of it.
I don't think when you're running for president, you can be afraid of anybody.
You cannot act like you're afraid of it, particularly a person in the media who is well known to be what he is.
The way to deal with this is to with as much humor as you can, let the audience know that you know what they know that the guy is a partisan, and the whole thing could be a setup, but beat the guy.
Do it with optimism and have fun.
Go about it with with good cheer.
Um and and so on.
There's I'm telling you folks, for one of these candidates this afternoon in this debate, which again starts at four o'clock, there is a gold mine waiting to be tapped out there if they can somehow, one or all of these candidates convey to the audience that they know they're also running against the media as well as whoever else is up on the panel or the dais with them in this uh in this debate.
Uh it's tricky because you can't blame the media for being unfair to you.
That that when you're running for president, you cannot whine about about anything.
But these guys ought to know that.
Uh and they also ought to have some empathy with thus those of us in their party and in their movement that uh, you know, we we consider the opposition to be not just a Democrat Party, but the the main component of the uh what we call a drive-by media.
I gotta run here back to close out the hour after this.
Couple weeks ago I made a prediction to you about what the 2008 presidential election would be about and what it would not be about.
That prediction is already starting to manifest itself, ladies and gentlemen, and I'll make sure I remind you of that in the monologue segment of the next hour, which will begin shortly after your fair unbiased, totally balanced local news,
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