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Nov. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 13, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And I am so excited here today, folks.
I can't even wait to hear this show myself.
I won't be able to hear it as you do because I'm performing it.
I'm one of the few Americans that never gets to listen to this program unless it's on tape or digitally reproduced, which I seldom do because I know what happened.
But this one I may listen to again.
It's great to be with you, Rush Limbaugh.
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Well, so far, folks, we have the perfect Clinton campaign.
Planning questions with college kids, using pre-teenagers for health care ads, laundering money through Chinatown, and now threatening the media.
Perfect Clinton campaign.
The Drudge Report on its homepage reports that CNN's Wolf Blitzer has been warned not to focus Thursday's Democrat debate on Hillary.
A Hillary Inc. Clinton Inc. spokesman told Drudge this campaign's about issues.
It's not on who we can bring down and destroy.
Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull a Russert.
Blitzer is set to moderate this debate from Vegas on Thursday night.
Questions also being posed by Suzanne Malvau.
So Clinton Inc. has threatened Russert.
Blitzer threatened Blitzer.
What I'm wondering is, did they threaten Blitzer personally as well as publicly here on the Drudge Report?
How about the Clinton War Room?
I'm really worried about Wolf.
I mean, Wolf's a nice guy.
I mean, I like Wolf, and you people know this.
But, you know, he's been warned now.
This is serious stuff.
You keep your hands off of our Hillary.
Or what?
What's going to happen?
I'm thinking about maybe calling Blackwater.
You know, the shadow army that protects dignitaries in Baghdad is a Wolf.
I'll be glad to hire a bodyguard detail for you before and after the debate, regardless how you moderate it.
I mean, this is a straight-out threat.
And I'm wondering, should Wolf now beg off of the debate like diplomats at the State Department begging off of going to Baghdad?
Because who's going to take care of Wolf's kids if something goes wrong here?
Who's going to take care of Wolf's children, folks?
This is a serious matter to be dealt with.
And seriously now, the question is whether Blitzer and other reporters will now be intimidated by this.
We shall watch and we shall see.
I just want to see how CNN reacts to such intimidation tactics.
Because I'm going to tell you, folks, if this were Richard Nixon, the media would already be up in arms over this, claiming abuse of power.
They would be fuming.
They would be outraged over this kind of thing.
And now Clinton Inc. can just send out this little story saying, yeah, well, we've got to get rid of, you know, Wolf's got to be warned here.
We can go after, don't go after Clinton, don't go after Hillary or keep your hands off of her, as though that would be a problem.
And how about Bill Clinton?
Try this audio soundbite.
This is yesterday in Charleston, South Carolina, at a Hillary Clinton rally.
It's a great time to be a Democrat.
And I like it.
I like it because even though those boys have been getting kind of tough on her lately, she can handle it.
Even though those boys Have been getting tough on her lately?
Does he not realize that one of those boys is a proud African-American?
So here's Senator Bill Clinton, President Bill Clinton, defending Hillary.
And you know what?
I think he only did this because she's being attacked by a black guy.
Does that sound familiar, ladies and gentlemen?
Remember, it was one of the early White House correspondence dinners in Washington at the Hilton Hotel, maybe the second or third year of his presidency.
And Janet Reno is after the Waco invasion.
Janet Reno's up there being grilled by John Conyers on what happened.
How could this have happened?
And you remember Clinton passed the buck on that.
Don't ask me about that.
Go ask Janet Reno.
That was her operation.
I just found out about it last night when I read the paper or something of that nature.
And so, you know, I got no brief for Janet Reno and that whole event, but Conyers was simply showboating and not trying to get to the bottom of anything.
And so I sort of played clips of that on my TV show, and I defended Janet Reno.
And Clinton told a joke at the White House correspondence and says, hey, did you say Rush program the other night?
You see him defending Janet Rena.
It's only because she's being attacked by a black guy.
So I've wanted to, I've waited for the opportunity to turn this back around.
So Clinton's now attacking all the boys who are hitting on his wife a little heavy here for him.
She can take it, though.
She's a big girl.
Bill Clinton defending Hillary.
He only did it because she was getting attacked by a black guy.
But I think this needs to be amplified, folks.
Let's get down to brass tacks, can we?
Who is it who has been acting like a boy and has been tough on her for his and her whole life?
Let's talk about how he, not Obama and not the Brecht girl, has been acting like a boy.
Let's talk to him about Monica, about Jennifer, about Susan, about Kathleen, and all the many others.
And how was that tough on his wife?
It was very tough.
Forced her to clean up his messes, gave her one of their only accomplishments in life.
But really, Bill Clinton's been as tough on her as any of these opponents in the Democrat primaries.
Calling these guys boys is just, it's an insulting.
This guy is not presidential.
He does not have that aura.
He has lost that.
And now he's out there defending his wife on this stuff because she can't, just like the spouses of all the other candidates are out there trying to defend their candidate spouses because for some reason they can't do it.
So I just, I tell you, folks, this is just, it's the perfect Clinton campaign.
It's gotten off to just an unsurprising start.
You know, the only thing that separates Hillary from her husband is that she is faking intellectual orgasms.
He has his orgasms are for real.
She has to fake her intellectual orgasms.
That's the only thing that separates Hillary from her husband.
So we got planning questions with college kids.
More on that coming up in just a moment.
And there's a pattern here.
We went back to the archives and we found out that in 1999, prior to her Senate run, a question was planted in an audience about whether or not she was going to run.
We have the audio from that back in 1999.
So planting questions with college kids, using pre-teenagers for health care ads, as in S-CHIP, laundering money through Chinatown and now threatening a member or warning a member of the media.
Better not cross the line the Clintons have drawn when questioning Mrs. Clinton at the debate Thursday night in Las Vegas.
We'll come back and continue with all this right after this, so don't go away, folks.
You know what Wolf ought to do at that debate on Thursday night?
He ought to have a disclaimer prior to every question.
This question approved by Ann Lewis.
This question approved by Bill Clinton.
This question approved by Howard Wolfson.
This question approved by Hillary Clinton herself.
This question planted by Hillary Clinton herself.
Here's the only safe line of questions for Wolf Blitzer to ask Hillary Clinton to debate on Thursday night.
Mrs. Clinton, what points would you like to make this evening?
Mrs. Clinton, do you need more time to make your points?
Mrs. Clinton, what would you like to be asked about now as we're nearing the end of the debate?
Mrs. Clinton, have we asked the right questions to help you get your points across?
Because frankly, we haven't understood a thing you've said tonight.
Well, better not throw that in there.
You know, Wolf's already got a reservation he's not aware of to Fort Marcy Park.
Greetings and welcome back.
Can you believe this?
There's a story.
Of all places, the New Republic, the home of fake, phony soldier anti-war in Iraq stories, has a piece.
Let's see.
I guess it's on their website by Michael Crowley, and it's called Bunker Hillary.
And this is a very liberal publication.
On June 1st, the New York Times published a front-page article, One Place Where Obama Goes Elbow to Elbow.
The feature feature detailed Barack Obama's love for pickup basketball, his jersey-tugging style, even the time he hit a long game-winning shot after getting fouled.
The Obama camp clearly welcomed the humanizing glimpse at Obama's life.
His rivals, probably not so much.
In an ordinary campaign, that might have been it, but this is no ordinary campaign.
Not when Hillary Clinton's a candidate.
So the Clinton team let the Times reporter Patrick Healy, who covers the Hillary Beat, know about their annoyance with the story, as Healy later put it.
If grumbling about a basketball story seems excessive, it's also typical of the Clinton media machine.
And Michael Crowley goes on to detail the efforts by the Clinton Inc. war room to shape and intimidate reporters and their coverage.
And then he adds this, despite all the grumbling, however, the press has showered Hillary with strikingly positive coverage.
It's one of the few times I've seen journalists respect someone for beating the hell out of them, says a veteran Democrat media operative.
So far, the strategy has worked brilliantly in the current climate where the mainstream media is under attack from both conservatives and liberals.
Clinton may have picked the right moment to get tough with the press.
We shall see.
This stuff works well when nobody knows it's happening.
But now the press is starting to talk about it.
And what's also amazing is the Clinton campaign starting to brag about it.
I mean, when you call Drudge and say, hey, we just warned Wolf Blitzer that he better not be tough on Hillary.
He better not ask these personal attack questions.
You better not do a russert.
You better stick to the issues.
I mean, this is arrogance personified.
You know who I really fear for?
Today, I have real fear for this young college student in Grinnell, Iowa, who is out there admitting that she was a plant and that they asked her to be a plant.
Remember, the campaign's denying all, well, they're not denying, but Hillary said she didn't know anything about it.
The student's name is, I hope I pronounced this right, Muriel Gallo-Chasinoff.
And this is this morning on CNN, the network where Wolf Blitzer works.
The network hosting the debate on Thursday night.
Wolf Blitzer having today been warned by the Clinton War Room to keep it right.
So she was appearing, and this is what she said about the planted question to Hillary.
On the way over there in the car, they asked me if I would ask the senator a question.
I said, sure, you know, I'd love to ask her a question.
And when we got there, we were there a little bit early.
They brought me to one of the senior staffers, and he asked me if there was any question I wanted to ask.
And I kind of thought about it, and I said, yeah, can I ask how her energy plan compares to the other candidates' energy plan?
And he said, well, I don't think that's a good idea because I don't know how familiar she is with their plans.
And then he showed me in his binder, he had a piece of paper that had typed out questions on it.
And the top on this plan specifically for a college student said like college student.
When I asked him how it worked, he said, raise your hand.
When she asks for questions, raise your hand and she'll call on you.
Do you hear how articulate that student is?
That is one of the most well-spoken college students that I have heard in a long time.
But how about what she said?
Well, I want to ask about the energy plan.
Well, I don't think you should ask about that because she doesn't know what her opponent's energy plans are.
Not only that, she doesn't care what her opponent's energy plans are.
And if she doesn't know, that's why.
Then he showed me in his binder, he had a piece of paper, typed out questions on it.
And the top of this plan specifically for a college student said like college student.
When I asked how it worked, he says, raise your hand.
She'll see you and she'll call on you.
Now, Mrs. Clinton says she's unaware that any of this is going on and this is intolerable.
And they won't tolerate it anymore.
I'll tell you, here's the thing.
You watch.
If the Clinton campaign holds true to form, this young student is about to be trashed, just like Paula Jones was trashed.
Remember Carbo said, well, you never know, it's going to find out.
We drag your dollar bill through a treadmill park out there.
And of course, the NAGs, the now gang said nothing about all of these women being trashed and destroyed.
So now we have great compassion and concern for Muriel Gallo Chasinoff because she's going to get trashed.
This is what the Clintons do.
And it'll be interesting to see if the media ignores that.
Now, here's one thing.
I think this is worth pointing out.
This woman is a college student in Grinnell, Iowa.
And as such, she's young.
She's no older than 22.
I don't know what year she is in college, but the odds are she's no older than 22.
And she's probably younger than that.
And so she's not old enough to have been affected by the Clinton mystique of the 90s.
You know, she's not among the female population of this country who wished it was her under the desk instead of Monica Lewinsky.
You know, and this is something Clintons are going to have to learn to understand.
Not everybody in this country looks at them as royalty and looks at them longingly and hoping, oh my God, I hope we can get the Clintons back.
These young students were too young to appreciate anything other than the definition of sex being changed by Clinton's under-the-desk behavior with Monica Lewinsky.
But in terms of being, they just weren't intellectually involved old enough to be as affected as today's journalists are.
I mean, these stories about how they marvel, the journalists do, at how well the Clintons lie.
They marvel about how well Clinton is able to intimidate the media.
They sit there and marvel at all this.
These young college kids, they're not of that nature.
They're not old enough to have experienced that mystique.
And so it'll be interesting to see if the Clintons do trash this student and others, you know, what the reaction will be among people in that demographic or age group.
She also, by the way, Muriel Gallo-Chasinoff added this about the planted question.
I mean, I don't know for sure that she knew in advance, but there were like 200 people there, and everyone was raising their hand.
I was one out of four.
That doesn't seem random exactly.
Everyone was raising their hand.
200 people there.
Everyone was raising their hand.
I was one out of four.
It doesn't seem random.
And by the way, she's saying I wasn't the only one they tried to plant a question with.
I wasn't the only one they approached about this.
Let's go back to the original exchange.
We can see that Mrs. Clinton's young people ask me this question answer was all part of a script.
Here is Muriel Gallo Chasinoff last Tuesday in Newton, Iowa, asking a question of Hillary.
As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming.
How does your plan combat climate change?
Well, you should be worried.
And, you know, I find as I travel around Iowa that it's usually young people who ask me about global warming.
We need, Mike, we need that skip, that parody that we did when Hillary announced her chat line on her website, Ask Hillary or whatever.
This question, we did was one of the greatest, most brilliant, because it's true, parodies of Mrs. Clinton and her listening to her, listening, whatever it was, when, in fact, she doesn't do the listening, she does the talking.
And it's just, it is a, it is funny as something you can see here that the young student wanted to ask about energy plans, was steered away from that, asked the question about global warming.
Well, you should be worried.
And you know, I find as I travel around Iowa, it's usually young people who ask me about global warming.
Yeah, who have been set up to ask you about global warming.
All right, let's go back.
Sunday in Waterloo, Iowa, Senator Clinton spoke with reporters.
Reporters said your campaign admits staging a question at an event this week in Iowa.
Edwards has said that's George Bush-like behavior and that the process in Iowa must be open and honest.
Can you respond to that allegation and to the incident itself?
Well, it was news to me, and neither I nor my campaign approve of that, and it will certainly not be tolerated.
Those are the only instances that you know about those two that were you know everything I know.
You think George Bush got away with that kind of an answer?
First place, it's obviously not true.
Well, it was news to me.
If 200 people in the room, she had to be told which one had the question on global warming.
She had to be told that this is none of this is believable.
It's a classic, perfect Clinton campaign.
Planting questions with college kids, using preteens for health care ads, laundering money through Chinatown, and intimidating and warning respected members of the drive-by media to go easy on the questioning at the Thursday night debate.
Or else.
They didn't say or else, but I mean, what are they going to do if Wolf doesn't believe and follow their instructions?
They're warning, what are they going to do?
Wolf has to be thinking about this.
We have an incident, by the way, back in 1999.
I mentioned earlier where a planted question was asked of Hillary.
There's a pattern here, all that and more coming up after this.
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Let's go back.
Audio soundbite number three on today's roster.
This is the actual question and answer, the planted question.
Muriel Gallo-Chasinoff asking Mrs. Clinton a question last Tuesday, a week ago today in Newton, Iowa.
As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming.
How does your plan combat climate change?
Well, you should be worried.
And, you know, I find as I travel around Iowa that it's usually young people who ask me about global warming.
Okay, we parodied the way Mrs. Clinton takes questions from people listening to her and that sort of thing.
And see if you note the brilliant construction of our parody here to that answer.
And we have another one of those.
It runs a little longer.
Well, we'll find out and play that for you, too.
You have that one?
All right, well, here, go ahead and play that because this one, that was the second phase.
This was the original.
Okay, and I want to bracket our parody with, again, what we were parroting.
Audio soundbite number three again, please.
As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming.
How does your plan combat climate change?
Well, you should be worried.
And, you know, I find as I travel around Iowa that it's usually young people who ask me about global warming.
There you have it, Mrs. Clinton.
And by the way, after the event, according to Galochazanov, Muriel Galochesanov, she said, I heard another man talking about the question he asked, and he said the campaign had asked him to ask that question.
Now, this is in the text of the CNN story.
They did not release that audio of the interview with her from where we got the audio that we have played previously here.
Yesterday on PMS NBC Live, the Hillary Clinton campaign chairman Tom Vilsack was asked about this question.
Senator Clinton herself said that she knew nothing about this planted question business and promised it wouldn't happen again.
Obviously, Hillary Clinton does not condone planning of questions.
She didn't know that this young person had been given that question.
The senator has no idea in the hundreds, thousands of people that she's talking to, who's talked to an aide and who hasn't.
She just basically tries to look around the crowd and tries to answer half a dozen or a dozen questions at stops.
Right, so it's circled the wagons time.
This is just like when Madeline Albright came out of the White House and if he said that he didn't have sex with that woman, then I totally believe him.
If Mrs. Clinton said that she didn't plant questions and does know anything about it, then I totally believe her and you should too.
But we know that she has to be aware of it because she has to know who to call on because they're not planting questions with 200 people or 100 people or everybody in the crowd.
This is just common sense.
David Schuster on PMS NBC last night reported this about the planted question to Senator Clinton in Iowa.
Clinton's campaign is on the defensive after acknowledging that staffers planted this friendly question at a Clinton town hall.
Watch the wink.
The wink is apparently the signal, ladies and gentlemen, for the planted questioner or somebody.
They're circling the wagons out there.
The drive-bys are getting a little distressed about this.
Don't know how long it's going to last.
Let's go back to this incident, 1999.
Last century, Clinton Inc. planted a question for her big Senate run announcement in 1999.
Now, we don't have all the audio, but we've got the nut audio.
Let me give you the setup.
This was the news with Brian Williams, November 23rd, 1999.
Yeah, we have a lot to tell you about tonight, beginning with what had become a whisper campaign of late, and it went like this.
After what turned into a somewhat disastrous trip to the Middle East and with polls showing she should not run, Hillary Rodham Clinton just might pull out of the race for Senate from New York.
Well, today, the first lady responded to a planted question at a teachers' union event, made it clear she is in the race for the U.S. Senate.
Brian Williams reported in 1999, last century, that the first lady responding to a planted question, here is the planted question.
It's by the teachers' union head in New York, Randy Weingarten, and they have this exchange.
So, is it yes Or is it no?
I believe that if we work together, we really can make a difference for the children and families of New York.
So the answer is yes.
I intend.
It was a planted question, and Andrea Mitchell reported this.
Brian, today's events were as carefully choreographed as the New York City Ballet.
Under pressure to either get in or get out, Hillary Clinton finally makes it official by answering a prearranged question from a friendly union leader.
There's a pattern here, folks.
So let's take a look at this.
Fundraising abuses?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
My mind is jello.
Pardons?
No, I had nothing to do with the pardons.
The billing records, the Rose Law firm Billy Reckon, I don't have any idea.
I didn't know anything.
And when they showed up in the map room, I was more surprised than anybody else.
Cattle futures?
No.
I thought everybody could turn $1,000 into $100,000.
FBI files in the White House?
No, I have no clue how that had happened.
But if we work together, we can solve the issue.
Travel office firing.
Oh, I don't know anything about that.
Real estate shams on property.
They worked.
No, I don't know anything about that.
Planted questions.
No, I didn't know anything about that.
Monica Lewinsky.
No, I didn't know anything about that.
That was the vast right-wing conspiracy.
I didn't know anything about that.
She doesn't know anything about anything.
Yet, I'm going to give you some more details from this story that's in the New Republic today by Michael Crowley, and it just debunks all of these myths.
So far, the strategy has worked brilliantly in the current climate where the mainstream media is under attack from both conservatives and liberals.
Hillary Clinton may have picked the right moment to get tough with the press, but as the murmur of discontent among the media grows, and Hillary's coverage has taken a sharper tone since a widely panned debate performance late last month, even some Hillary supporters fear the strategy may produce a dangerous backlash.
Here's a section on a long history of shutting off the press.
And you have to figure here that the drive-bys have battered liberal syndrome, battered wives because no matter how they were abused and mistreated by the Clintons, they keep coming back with their tongues out.
They keep coming back bent over forwards and asking to be spanked again.
Quote, Clinton's wariness was forged by her husband's nightmarish experience on the 92 campaign trail.
Battered by stories about Bill's mistresses and financial dealings, Hillary seethed at the press, resolved to control their coverage.
Bill disliked the press too, but not with the loathing of his wife, who even tried to throw the press out of the White House itself.
In January 93, she and her friend Susan Thomas proposed to move the White House press room next door to the sleepy old executive office building.
When that scheme was deemed untenable, aides closed off a hallway connecting the press room to the West Wing.
Outraged reporters pounced on Press Secretary George Stephanopoulos, who later recalled thinking, I'm not your problem.
Hillary is.
Bill Clinton seems to be on my side.
He asked me again this morning why we're closing the door.
I said, have you talked to your wife about this, Mr. President?
He has a history of shutting them out.
So many reporters also get this.
This is not news to you people because I have told you you are fully informed on this.
Many reporters, this is a New Republic story of Patrick Crowley.
Many reporters also suspect the Clinton camp of employing outside proxies to attack troublemakers in the media.
After Hillary's shaky debate performance, the Drudge Report quickly featured an unusual blind quote on its homepage in which an unnamed top Hillary advisor said debate moderator Tim Russert bordered on the unprofessional.
Joining in the attack on Russert was Media Matters, the liberal press-watching website founded by Clinton allied David Brock.
Many in Washington now believe the campaign feeds material to Brock's site.
As when Media Matters went after New York Times reporter Ann Kornblut last July after Kornbloot misrendered a quote that led to an erroneous story claiming Hillary had criticized fellow Democrats.
So they're on the case finally.
The drive-by's on the case.
They understand that Media Matters is simply a Clinton proxy.
They will still use Media Matters things if it suits them to go after their enemies, people like me.
But that's their imprimatur, says a Democrat strategerist.
When there's a story that Clintons don't like, they seize on it, they turn it back on the reporter, and they make it about the reporter.
As the First Lady Hillary called for a public frontal assault against the Washington Post's lead Whitewater reporter, Susan Smith.
And I remember that.
According to Howard Kurtz, the plan was never enacted.
It was certainly planned.
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Roy in Westport, Connecticut.
We go to you first on the phones today.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, good to talk to you.
I just want to, you're on the right track.
This woman is not going to be attacked, however, by Hillary and her direct minions.
She will be attacked without anyone saying anything.
This woman has a real tough time getting through school.
My prediction, she's going to fail the next three courses she takes.
The professors will not say, no one, nothing, nobody has to say anything.
She has become an enemy of the camp, and she will be destroyed.
Not in the way Kathleen Willing was destroyed and the others were destroyed with direct attacks.
This will be insidious.
And believe me, it'll be like Imus.
Imus was not fired because of what he said.
Imus was fired because they were waiting for him.
They were waiting.
And as soon as he opened his mouth and said anything, at least bit off color, the attack dogs came out and he was finished.
And it had nothing to do with that.
It had everything to do with his attacks on Hillary.
Well, I know the Clinton camp is right behind that.
There's no question.
Let's stick to Muriel Galochesnov here because you've made an interesting point here that they may be able to smear and trash this woman with no fingerprints.
Exactly.
And they may not even have to order it done.
You just have the Clintonocracy that makes up professors at these liberal universities.
She's going to pay for doing this, and the Clintons may not even have to make a phone call.
Exactly.
So that's the way the mafia works, man.
You just wink, and that's it.
And you got the code.
It was the wink.
It was the wink.
And the professors don't even have to see the wink.
Yeah, but you know, look at this poor waitress.
They did come out, and they call that waitress a liar.
You know, the one that claimed that she didn't get a tip.
And the campaign said, we left a tip.
We have $100 in $157 bill.
We left a $100 tip.
Well, nobody got the tip here, so they sent somebody in with a $20 bill for the waitress.
But their history is to trash these women, anybody that gets in their way.
Now, even if what you project happens, let's say this woman fails enough courses the next three years to have her college career doomed.
Do you think she'll remain quiet about it?
I don't know.
I don't know the woman at all.
She may very well be intimidated.
The private investigators that they hired, their whole method of operand was to intimidate, to intimidate with coarse and the most obscene acts against these women.
And she'll be intimidated in a much kinder way.
She just won't get through.
Yeah, it's another good point you're making.
For all this warrantless wiretapping that Bush is supposedly doing, wait till this young woman finds out what Clinton Inc. knows about her.
I think that co-ed is safe until after the election, but then all bets are off.
James in Old Sage Beach, Missouri.
Oh, Sage Beach.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, how are you today?
I'm fine, sir.
Good, good.
I have a question, a quick comment, if I could.
Yeah.
My question is: you know, the liberal media wants a Democrat elected no matter what.
If they deem, if they start to sense that Clinton is unelectable, do you think they'll dump her?
And do you think it's perhaps started already?
Oh.
I'm answering it as intellectual.
Boy, that's...
If they deem her unelectable, will they dump her?
Yes, this goes so against the conventional wisdom.
And remember, leadership is found outside consensus.
And the consensus is that Hillary's got this wrapped up.
The consensus is that Mrs. Clinton owns the press, and she does, has them in her back pocket, but the press doesn't want to lose.
Mitigating your question, or mitigating the answer is that I don't really think the press inside the beltway thinks a Democrat can lose.
And I don't think they think Mrs. Clinton could lose if she gets the nomination.
So let me revise it.
I don't think that they will abandon her and take up sides.
However, Obama's coming on strong.
We've got a couple stories that will indicate that the press is paying attention now here to the supposedly tightening poll numbers.
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