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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	I know, I know.
	Late arriving show prep.
	Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
	America's real anchor man.
	We don't need any other broadcasts with this one.
	Rush Limbaugh back on Friday.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	Oh, yes!
	Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
	Yahoo.
	Here's the phone number.
	You know the drill, folks.
	800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
	And the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
	Uh, we go to the program.
	Go to the phones today.
	Uh, program is all yours.
	Uh Monday through Thursday, we only talk about things that interest me.
	On Friday, I waive that rule.
	I can do that as a benevolent dictator.
	And uh, whatever you want to talk about, whatever you want to ask about, feel free.
	Open line Friday, wide open.
	Boy, I'll tell you, you know, the um the Clintons, they're out there playing this gender card now.
	This this is truly uh insulting.
	She wants it both ways.
	Uh one day, one minute she wants to just be the girl that everybody's beating up on, and then the next day she wants to be tough as a man, or the next minute wants to have it both ways.
	We'll discuss this uh in in great detail as the uh program unfolds today.
	Uh, want you to hear something.
	How many of you have seen the uh Hillary campaign montage that they put together from her website?
	It's got uh all the candidates piling on all of the from the debate, all the attacks, and they've they've put it to Mozart music.
	Well, what we have done, we've done our own uh uh media montage of the media fawning and spinning the debate for Hillary, and we've put the same music to it.
	Here it is.
	A montage, as we call it in the TV business.
	So anyway, they're they're still out there spinning for her.
	They've got well, some are, some aren't.
	I mean, it's it's not it's not playing well.
	This is I think this constitutes Mrs. Clinton's first slip-up.
	This is her first slip up, and this one may hang around.
	And and guess guess where it all started.
	Guess where it all started right here on the EIB Network and the Rush Limbaugh program by demanding to know why it is that Mrs. Clinton was getting a free pass on not being asked about an issue that was said to be radioactive for her.
	Uh driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in New York.
	Reporters say, Yeah, it's a radioactive issue.
	Uh ask her about it, Schlub.
	And so at the debate, Tim Russert did on uh on Wednesday night.
	Uh, I don't mean him, the schlub, I'm talking about the AP reporter that wrote about how radioactive it was for her and wouldn't dare ask just report.
	Oh, yeah, she can't go near this.
	Well, why not?
	You know, she gets away with not when she don't want to talk, she don't want to talk, so they tripped her up.
	See, she she and that answer, that flip-flop, we had it for you all day on uh on Wednesday.
	She tried to have it both ways in the in the middle of that answer.
	And it all boils down to this, folks.
	It's not that she doesn't know what she believes, it's that she's afraid to tell us what she believes.
	It's afraid to tell us what she really wants to do.
	They want the Clintons want to appear to be for and against everything.
	They want to have they want to play both sides of every issue down the middle so that you never really know, because the purpose of this is to is to cover the agenda.
	Uh cover it up.
	Uh, and then prevent it from actually getting out.
	We know what the agenda is.
	The Clintons are no mystery to us here, nor are they a mystery to uh to you.
	But this was a big slip up, folks, folks, and it was caused, and it started right here on the EIB network, and that is exactly what I mean when I say you listen to this program or you'll be on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
	And this is why they smear me.
	This is exactly why they smear me.
	And with every smear, every attempt at smearing it backfires uh on them, and uh that but that will not stop them.
	Anyway, other other little news items here uh before we uh before we get in gear.
	The the pumpkin tax has been canned in uh in Iowa.
	Uh the administrators announced yesterday they were backing off the policy of charging sales tax on pumpkins intended for use as uh jack-o-lanterns.
	The decision came after the Des Moines Register reported the state's claim that the big pumpkins didn't qualify for the food exemption because they generally are used for decoration.
	The story whipsawed around the internet, drew scads of derisive comments from all over the country, and the big taxing authorities in Iowa back down.
	Just like the immigration crowd backed down in Washington, D.C. By the way, was watching.
	We've got great economic news out here today.
	It's this is this is uh uh tremendous.
	Employers added about twice as many new employees last month than expected.
	It's always a surprise when the economy does well.
	This is Reuters that happens to be reporting this.
	Factory orders edged up.
	Uh the uh uh government reports on Friday that implied the economy was strong enough to avoid a recession.
	Who's talking about a recession?
	The drive by what the Democrats and the what recession?
	I was watching CNBC this morning, quite by accident.
	A little bit after 11 o'clock, Larry Cudlow is on with Robert B. Rice.
	Shh.
	And they're discussing the uh the economic growth numbers that came out earlier this week, 3.9%, uh, and the the jobs numbers.
	And Robert B. Rice, shh, shit at least we can say that with these job numbers the recession is not starting now.
	What is all this talk about a recession?
	Uh it's it's it's uh well, we know what it is, because here is a companion story.
	USA Today.
	Let's see.
	This is I'm not sure what this ran.
	Maybe last night.
	Might be in today's papers by Susan Page.
	A year before voting, a nation of discontent, divided by the war, anxious about the future.
	Americans want some fixes.
	Call us the unhappy states of America.
	One year before election day 2008, most Americans are dismayed by this country's direction.
	Pessimistic about the Iraq war.
	They are anxious about the economy.
	Two of three disapprove of the job President Bush is doing.
	Nearly a year after Democrats took control of Congress, three out of four Americans say it isn't doing much either.
	In all, 72% of those surveyed in a USA Today Gallup poll taken October 12, 13, and 14 say they are dissatisfied with how things are going in America, while just 26% are satisfied.
	Not since April have even one-third of Americans been happy with the country's course.
	This is the longest national funk in 15 years.
	15 years 1992.
	Why, does that just happens to coincide with the Clinton campaign?
	The worst economy in the last 50 years, isn't this a coincidence?
	Don't get me wrong, America's a great country, says Lori Jones, 46, a medical assistant in Phoenix.
	But she worries about her family's finances and prospects for the next generation.
	I think we've somehow lost our way, she said.
	But that plucked her out of nowhere.
	She's an American, and the plenty of time for attitudes to change before the election, of course, but the current landscape is the sort that in the past has prompted political upheaval and third party candidacies.
	The last time the national mood was uh so gloomy was in 1992, when first President Bush was ousted from the White House and parole received the highest percentage of the vote of any third party candidate in 80 years.
	Bill Clinton was elected amidst economic angst.
	This this is a four-page story.
	I've only gotten through half of the first page.
	Now, this is this is classic.
	This is this story, and others like it for the past four years is exactly why some people have a pessimistic attitude about the economy when the facts are the economy is roiling.
	It's doing fabulous.
	43% of California's voters also say that the state is headed downward.
	California voters becoming increasingly pessimistic with immigration issues topping their worries.
	But now, burdened by a sputtering economy and doubts about the ability of elected officials to deal with the mounting problems.
	Voters' outlook is split.
	Forty-two percent of them said the state's headed in the right direction.
	Forty-two percent give a negative view.
	Most of it is due to immigration.
	And whose issue is that?
	It's a bunch of Democrats.
	Democrats have gotten the state of California in trouble.
	Uh if only the Republicans had somebody who could connect the dots for voters in California.
	But amidst all of this, all of this doom and gloom, you know, Larry Cudlow has a um had a great piece that ran in the investors' business daily.
	If things are so bad, why are they so good?
	With all the gloom coming out of Wall Street, the Democrats in a campaign trail, a mainstream media, remarkable thing just happened.
	Real gross domestic product.
	The best summary report of the American economy came in at a breathtaking 3.9% annual rate for the third quarter.
	In fact, following the 3.8% growth rate for the second quarter, the U.S. economy has posted its strongest quarterly growth in four years.
	The economy actually appears to be speeding up following the relatively sluggish performance of the prior 18 months, and on top of this, the inflation rate's actually slowing down.
	The consumer spending deflator is reading 2.1% for the past year compared with over 3% six months ago.
	Core inflation rate is now down to 1.9%, which is below the Fed's 2% target.
	Now, while many continue to predict a consumer collapse because of home prices and tighter credit, uh after tax inflation uh adjusted income is 4.1% ahead of last year.
	The little noticed factoid is that consumer energy use per unit of GDP has actually fallen by more than 50% in recent decades.
	So again, if things are so bad, why are they so good?
	The stock market roared after the Fed cut its target rate on Wednesday.
	The rate cut was a small insurance policy, but listening to the Democrat presidential debate Tuesday night, you'd think it was 1929 all over again.
	Democrat Party soupline America been chronicling this for many many moons.
	The litany of scare talk complaints includes China trade unfairness, globalization, immigration, income inequality, stagnant wages, a shrinking middle class, the sinking dollar, and high oil prices.
	Yeah, there is some home deflation on Main Street and loan deflation on Wall Street.
	It'll continue.
	What about the rest of the story?
	It's a it's a great piece.
	Uh that suggests the worst thing could happen right now is raising tax rates.
	That would destroy was obviously now.
	I even heard Robert B. Rice shh su on CNBC today refer to what's going on as a recovery.
	Right after he said, Well, I guess it's a recession is not going to start now.
	So uh it is this is this is a dilemma for me.
	When I when I read quotes from this uh 46-year-old out in Phoenix, yeah, worried about the future work harder.
	Oh rush, easy for you to say I know it's insensitive.
	Forgive me.
	I'm I'm sorry.
	Don't work harder.
	Keep whining and moaning.
	Great American.
	Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
	Wrapping up the fastest week in media here on the Rush Limbaugh program in the EIB network.
	It's open line Friday, and we'll uh we'll get to your calls here relatively soon.
	Let's go to the audio sound bites.
	We'll start with this.
	Mrs. Clinton at Wellesley.
	Uh just listen to this.
	In so many ways, this all women's college prepared me to compete in the all boys' club of presidential politics.
	How stupid.
	You know, she won one one day she wants to be thought of as strong like a man.
	As a member of the boys' club.
	Then the other time, she's just this victim.
	They're being up on girl.
	Isn't it fair?
	So I'm gonna go play a gender card.
	I'm gonna go back to Wellesley.
	And it's just it, folks, I'm telling you, this is not working out.
	It's not, this is she's blowing this big time, I'm telling you.
	Uh not with rank and foul Democrats, of course they're gonna be in there, but with the these the undecided, the uh so-called uh independence.
	I have a whole stack on this today.
	A whole Stack of Mrs. Clinton playing the gender card and being a victim and so forth.
	Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg.com Democrat debate proves that you can hit a girl.
	U.S. presidential debates have been largely a bust unless you go in for stilted round robin interviews that reward memorization and neatness over substance.
	All those raise your hand if you agree questions reduce the candidates to screw children, begging the teacher for a hall pass.
	But thanks primarily to Senator Edwards, Tuesday night's Democrat debate was different.
	He was out to prove it's okay to hit a girl.
	He hit Clinton so many times that as a night wore on, she began to seem punch drunk, unsure of what was on or off the table, and which tough issue is needed yet another study by a fuzzy bipartisan commission tied up with a blue rib.
	Does anybody think she got beat up?
	The point is the exact opposite, as I I think so brilliantly and eloquently pointed out on Thursday.
	She was stumbling all over the place.
	She had a bad night, and nobody in that field stepped up to take her place.
	Nobody wrote in and said, I'm the guy.
	They just they remain feeble.
	That was that if they if if that's hitting the girl.
	Uh, you know, I I I'll tell you what else.
	You know, now she's a girl.
	Before she was just as good as a man, just as strong as a man.
	So what are we to do now?
	How how are we supposed to treat, how are we supposed to react to Mrs. Clinton?
	Is Hillary equal to a man?
	Is Hillary a girl?
	What do her supporters want us to think now?
	What is Clinton Inc.
	want us to think of her?
	And what are they going to want us to think next hour?
	Is she a girl now?
	Or is she a man?
	Is she smart?
	Or do we only focus on her waistline and below?
	I mean, this is this is the question, a series of questions that her attitude uh is uh.
	Well, they're arousing in me.
	I mean if is she running as a girl?
	Is she running as a strong woman?
	Is she running as a woman who's like a man?
	These are all messages they have used.
	No, no, no, they have.
	I'm not trying to be funny.
	They have used these messages out of Clinton Inc.
	uh throughout this whole campaign.
	Is she running as a girl?
	Is she running as a strong woman?
	Is she running as a woman who is like a man?
	You you you have forgotten.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we have parodied this circumstance before.
	Let's go back to the archives, the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
	John Edwards singing the tune.
	I think.
	Do we have the John Edwards song?
	Uh the broadcast engineer failed to follow directions issued 25 minutes ago to get the song and have it standing by, so a brilliantly executed monologue capped off.
	Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, broadcast engineer just happened to find it in the nick of time.
	Remember, this wasn't this long ago.
	We parodied this whole Hillary is a man-woman business with this.
	Hillary was trying to play the girl card once before.
	woman.
	More of a woman than you, that's the Brick Girl, John Edwards, as sung by Paul Shanklin, a well-known white comedian.
	As As soon as Mrs. Clinton comes under some minor little attack from weak opponents like Obama or Edwards, she immediately resorts to the girl argument.
	And hit the girl, you can't hit the girl.
	This is not gutsy, this is not courageous, this is just pandering.
	Easily and happily, making the complex understandable.
	So Mr. Snerdley tells me that during his first tour of the flashing yellow lights on our phone console, number of liberals have managed to get in and worm their way into the broadcast.
	They have not hung around to be placed on hold, but it seems that they are quite upset that I am sounding like a broken record.
	Uh talking about Mrs. Clinton.
	Really?
	You Libs, you can't fool me like this.
	You are trying to make me think that I am boring the audience, so I will stop talking about Mrs. Clinton because you are just like she is.
	You cannot handle criticism of her.
	The truth always sends liberals into orbit.
	The truth, anything that counteracts the silly little cocoon of lies and deceit, the web of deceit that they have woven in which they survive, thrive, and live.
	Anything that that that that penetrates pokes through that, they just can't handle it.
	And that's when political correctness or censorship pops up, and that's when they want you to shut up.
	But you libs calling in I recognize the tick, the technique.
	I know what you're trying to do out there.
	Uh and it won't work.
	I am a highly trained broadcast specialist, and I follow my instincts.
	Here's Obama, by the way.
	Obama's trying to capitalize this on the Today Show today.
	It was uh being interviewed by uh by Matt O'Hauer, uh, who said uh Senator Obama uh sounds to me that I just heard the gender card drop with Mrs. Clinton's statement up there at Wellesley.
	How are you gonna deal with this?
	I hope that Senator Clinton wants to be treated like everybody else.
	Uh when we have a debate back in Iowa.
	Come on.
	A while back.
	We spent, I think, the first 15 minutes of the debate hitting me on various foreign policy issues.
	And I didn't come out and say, look, I'm being hit on because uh I look different from the rest of the folks on the stage.
	It doesn't make sense for her after having run that way for eight months.
	Uh the first time that people start challenging her point of view that suddenly she backs off and says, Don't pick on me.
	Uh that's uh, you know, pretty good choice of words, but what you could just say something like that with little energy with a little oomph, and maybe with half the words so that it will have more power.
	He just, you know, tries to get in there and duke it out with her, but he just doesn't have it in him.
	He sounded like he's whining here, too.
	Well, I never said...
	You're not going to be a good one.
	Here, by the way, I want you to hear Robert B. Rice, shh, suh, CNBC this morning.
	He was on with uh with Larry Cudlow.
	Here's the first one.
	These are short bites like eight and eleven seconds.
	This is where he says the no recession yet.
	The big news from the uh jobs numbers this morning is that the recession has not yet started.
	I wish I could be as pie in the sky, optimistic, goldilocks as my friend Larry Cudlow.
	The recession has not yet started.
	And then this next one is interesting only because of the choice of words that Professor Reich uses here.
	The middle class is pen is spending too much in terms of taxes.
	The middle class has not seen much of a break in terms of this recovery at all.
	I've never heard this, I don't think.
	The middle class is spending too much in terms of taxes.
	Folks, we don't spend taxes.
	They are collected from us.
	The middle class is spend I know this is, you know, the these elite economists type of lingo, but not even elite economists would say this.
	The middle class is spending too much in terms of taxes.
	This guy is a lecturer or has been at major American uh universities.
	By the way, you remember back in 2000, and I do remember this, uh, during the campaign, the presidential campaign 2000, George W. Bush was warning of uh a coming recession while the Clintons were still in the White House, and they flipped out.
	The Clintons flipped out, the whole drive-by media, the Democrat Party flipped out.
	Well, you're talking down the economy.
	You're talking down the economy.
	This is irresponsible.
	You know, presidential year talked talking down the economy is what the Democrats and the drive-by media have been doing for five consecutive years, maybe more.
	And that's one of the reasons why so many people have uh have all of this angst out there when it's not that it really isn't necessary at all.
	It it's a giant disconnect.
	It makes no sense.
	Uh especially, you know, if it's based on this this business of the gap between the rich and the poor, as I so uh eloquently brilliantly pointed out, the gap between the rich and poor is good.
	The gap means that the poor, the middle class, have something to shoot for and get.
	If you have everybody making the same amount of money for the same amount of same kind of work, nobody is gonna have any incentive to do anything.
	Uh and and so uh this class envy card, we're gonna raise taxes on the rich, the rich have what they have because they're taking it from the middle class and the poor, the Democrats put this stuff out there.
	Uh and class envy an attorney, human nature sense always has some impact, but I don't think it's as successful electorally.
	Uh it might be successful in creating a national mood that's sour, but I don't know that uh electorally it's going to work for them because we're here this time to uh dispel it.
	Now back to Hillary for one more minute just to irritate you, Libs.
	Make him stop.
	The um situation with all the people in the media is kind of divided.
	I have I I have print stories here where they're really are embarrassed that Hillary has played this card, they're embarrassed that she thinks that she get beat up.
	It's the it's the television, the broadcast people who are are really circling the wagons for her.
	But here's to me, this is the bottom line.
	You know, and as a conservative, I'm considered to be a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, uh, jerk, a uh uh chauvinist pig, and this kind of thing.
	But I'll tell you, I it really demeans women out there as a group when the liberal female elites like Hillary Clinton claim to have their vote sewn up simply because they share the same gender.
	I think these elite feminist type women come along, I'm woman, all women are gonna vote for me, gender-related, we're all victims, we've all been oppressed by predatory men and so forth.
	I mean, think about this, folks.
	Seriously.
	They have gotten away with the most base kind of argument.
	And it is an argument that the media laps up.
	They did it in the French elections.
	Segaline Royale was going to score huge and score big, uh, and she didn't even get 50% of the female vote, and everybody over couldn't figure it out.
	Uh now they they they've just treat women like they're monolithic, they don't have individual brains whatsoever.
	Uh you know, these these liberal elite women think of women the same way sleazy guys do from the bottom down, the waist down.
	Well, when you when you're playing a gender card, if you're Mrs. Clinton, if you're an elite liberal feminine, you're playing a gender card, and you expect every woman to vote for you because she's a woman, what are you looking at?
	You're looking at the waist down.
	You're not looking at the head, you're certainly not looking at the brain with sleazy guys.
	How do they look at at women from the waist down?
	They give a cursive glance at the face.
	And it that that's I think it's a it's an excellent comparison between the and these elite women are thought of as, you know, elites.
	There's so many uh IQ points smarter than uh everybody else.
	It's it's it's like everything else about liberalism, it's it's it's condescending.
	And uh for those of you women who who are out there uh targeting being targeted by Mrs. Clinton because you are a woman, you were being insulted.
	You you are being held in contempt, you're being condescended to to the phones.
	We'll start with uh Ernesto, Asbury Park, New Jersey.
	It's nice to have you on the program, sir.
	Welcome.
	Thank you.
	There's a UK telegraph article on the link to the Drudge Report that lists uh it ranks the America's most influential conservatives and liberals.
	Yes.
	And I noticed that on our side, Rudy Giuliani is number one, and you are number five.
	And I I kind of take that personally because I think your stock is undervalued because I feel you represent the American conservative better than anyone.
	Well, thank you, sir, very much.
	Uh uh, I myself uh thought that I should have finished in the number one position in this poll, just like I thought I should have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
	But you can't win everything, and they can't take the Peace Prize nomination away from me ever.
	And I'll always be number five in the poll.
	But I I I do have to tell you, I'm stunned.
	Um, you know, w w when when this whole thing started Monday, they did 20 a week, or 20 a day all week.
	When this thing started on Monday, I had friends of mine saying, you know, you're gonna be number one.
	You are gonna say nope, it ain't gonna happen.
	I'll be lucky to crack the top fifty.
	And then when I made the top fifty, I said, Whoa.
	Then I made the top 40, top 30.
	But I said I'm not gonna be number one, it's gonna be some elected official or somebody running for office who will be number one.
	Lo and behold, it's Rudy.
	Now, Rudy's a good guy, but Rudy is not leading a conservative movement at all, and doesn't intend to.
	Uh there's nobody else out there that is leading a conservative movement that's running for office.
	Though the conservative movement right now is being led by media people.
	Uh and that's a lot of them end up in that in that list.
	But you know, there's there's there's there's a lot of strange rankings, that list.
	I have to I can't mention any names here, but there's a really, really strange placements there that that trust me, Ernesto make no sense.
	Can I make another comparison?
	Well, by all means, feel free.
	If you look at the uh most influential liberals, if uh in comparison to the most influential conservatives, m most of the conservatives are unimpeachable in terms of accomplishment and character.
	When you look at the liberals, uh they're you know they're they've been impeached.
	So it's kind of disturbing.
	Yeah, I know.
	But you know, it look at these lists are silly because they're they're they're obviously the the the guy that wrote these uh lists, it's his personal view after studying it.
	I'm sure he he gave it the best shot.
	But I tell you what I like about it.
	At least it's not from Time magazine.
	You know, it's not from Vanity Fair.
	We've actually got a British paper that puts this together.
	Uh and it I think in in in some sense, some ways, it's far more representative of the truth than some of the pop culture lists that you get from Time, Vanity Fair, Vogue, whatever, these kinds of things.
	Uh it's just nice to see another list that people were paying attention to, uh, taking seriously.
	Ernesto, thanks for the call.
	I appreciate it.
	A brief time out, folks.
	We'll be back and continue on open line Friday after this.
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	Yes, snerdly, what do you you you people have been staring at I normally don't get distracted.
	You are looking at me like I got off the spaceship from Mars today, like I look like James Carville.
	What what maybe you're just staring in total respect, adulation, and awe.
	Is that all right, good.
	Linda in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hi, it's a pleasure to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	God bless you.
	You are great.
	You are I I'm glad you run America.
	Um I just wanted to ask you to continue goading Tim Russert and Brian Williams and all the other uh journalists out there not to wimp out on Mrs. Clinton and put their tail between their legs and like uh slink off like scared puppies the way that um Chris Matthews does every time he interviews her, he practically kisses her feet in fear.
	Um, she does have a testicle lockbox.
	Well, you know, we have to challenge.
	This is Nurse Ratchet.
	This this is what makes this girl card and be and the victim, oh, they're hitting the girl.
	Nurse Ratchet never got hit by anybody.
	Nurse Ratchet was the one abusing people.
	This is so phony, it is so beneath anybody to do Obama had it right, it just didn't say it well.
	But uh You're right.
	You're right.
	But um, you know, Putin doesn't care if she's a woman.
	The ChaiComs don't care if she's a woman, the Islamic terrorists don't care if she's a woman.
	And we need journalists to really challenge her to come out of the closet and give her true answers to what uh they're asking.
	And they they did a great job.
	I think Russert did a great job.
	And he ought to keep doing a great job, and so should all the rest of the journalists.
	Well, you know, that's an interesting point here.
	Uh uh I've I've got this whole Hillary stack, and I was gonna space it out during the uh uh use it a little bit here and there during the course of the program.
	Uh, but one of the one of the things that I'm starting to uh detect, and this in the print media, the broadcast guys, and I'm talking about the cable TV clowns, the broadcast guys, uh they're they're pretty much still carrying her water and and uh and and spinning the uh the cable guys are there, they're they're spinning for.
	Uh but the print people are a little dismayed that she's playing this victim card.
	They're not happy about it, and in fact, they're they're a little dismayed that she won't answer any questions.
	Here's our old buddy Ron Fournier in the Associated Press.
	Hillary a victim, hardly is the headline.
	You want to hear a couple things in this story?
	Clinton's rivals for the Democrat nomination seized on her refusal to give straight answers about Social Security, immigration, her White House era documents, and other important issues.
	They hope to further the perception that she's slippery and uh overly political.
	Rather than rebut her rivals' charges of uh uh to confront the issues or confront the issues with facts and details, Clinton accused her rivals of ganging up on her.
	So rather than answer the questions, and rather than deal with the issues, they're hitting me in a girl, they're ganging up on me.
	It's like it's almost some places they're portraying this like a gang rape, folks.
	They're withering blistering attacks.
	They were nothing.
	And then Fournier says Clinton's advisor, speaking on condition of anonymity because they're not authorized to discuss internal matters, yet they're doing it anyway, said there is a clear and long-planned strategy to fend off attacks by accusing her male rivals of gathering against her.
	The idea is to change the subject while making Clinton a sympathetic figure, especially among female voters who often feel outnumbered and bullied on the job.
	The victim is a familiar role for Clinton.
	She has an alternative, though, to this risky piling on defense, writes Mr. Fournier.
	She could undercut her rival's criticism by simply coming clean.
	Answer the questions.
	And there's no reason for people to gang.
	There are people are ganging up on her because she won't answer anything.
	She's hiding her agenda.
	She's trying to have it both ways, and her opponents are getting a little fed up and tired with the media, letting her get away with it.
	Russert didn't let her get away with it the other night, and now it's time to play the victim card.
	Long planned strategy.
	Play the victim, play the girl.
	You know how it goes.
	Fast as three hours in media, one of them's already gone.
	It's open line Friday.
	It will be getting to a lot more of your phone calls.
	Uh, and some uh interesting things here in the snack of stuff, all coming up after this brief top of the hour break for local news and whatever else.

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