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Dec. 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 3, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
I hope it was fabulous.
Because now it's time to once again clean up the mess made by the drive-bys over the past weekend.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A hearty welcome to those of you watching, by the way, on the Ditto Cam at RushLimbaugh.com.
Well, when I left you last Friday, ladies and gentlemen, we were in the middle of the great Hillary campaign office standoff.
And I will admit, I speculated then that she had, because nothing had happens with the Clintons as coincidence.
I speculated then that she had planted it in light of what she knew from her internals, meaning the polls.
This weekend, the drive-by media played along totally with this, these embarrassing, ridiculous stories on how presidential she looked, even though she wasn't even there.
But it wasn't enough.
The press today on Hillary is uniformly bad.
She's getting creamed here for going after Obama a little bit too strongly.
And some respected, what's going on here?
I mean, she's not anything.
It's a dead heat.
What's the point here of all the panic?
We will discuss this in great detail as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
Now, if there was somebody in the world that had more inevitability about his election future than Mrs. Clinton, it was Hugo Chavez, who instantly, interestingly, also has the same initials as Hillary Clinton.
HC.
Hugo Chavez was even more inevitable than Hillary Clinton.
He had even more control of the media in Venezuela than she does.
He has even more power to kneecap opponents than she does.
And yet he lost.
Venezuela won.
He had a reform package, quote-unquote reform package.
It would have made him dictator for life.
It would have eliminated term limits on him.
And now he has to, he can't serve me on 2012, theoretically.
I mean, this isn't over.
But nevertheless, it seems that there could be a message here for the drive-bys and their template that Mrs. Clinton is inevitable.
He wasn't.
Hugo Chavez, well, they're crying in San Francisco over this, by the way.
And she isn't.
So what we have here in Venezuela, one small setback for socialism and a giant setback yet to happen here in the United States in a setback for socialism.
Remember now, Hugo Chavez had all the things going for him.
He hated George Bush.
He came to the UN and he called him the devil.
He's cozied up to Mahmoud Ahmadinez.
He's cozied.
We're the most hated country on earth, right?
And Hugo Chavez was going to reap the benefits here.
By the way, his oil price is falling today as well.
But it's a little too soon to get all excited about Hugo Chavez.
I'll tell you why.
Back in, I think, 2000 or 2001, does the name Robert Mugabe ring a bell?
Robert Mugabe is the dictator in Zimbabwe.
And he proposed a package of reforms in 2000 or 2001 that was identical.
I mean, very close, very similar to what Chavez proposed in Venezuela.
And yet, he's still in power.
And it was just two or three months after that vote when he was defeated that he decided to start seizing all of the farmland owned by whites, by white farmers in Zimbabwe and nationalize it.
You know, to expect Chavez to just take this and go down to defeat and not try to revitalize his quote-unquote reforms, a little crazy.
But there's a silver lining here because the conventional wisdom is, I mean, I don't know if you're aware of it, but so much of the drive-by media was very effusive in its praise for Hugo Chavez, primarily because of his hatred for George W. Bush and his mocking him, and having a renegade like Chavez out there serve the purpose in the narrative of the drive-by media, who said the world hates Bush.
And even if Chavez is a nut, look who made him a nut?
Bush made him the nut.
Bush, because Bush is threatening him and so forth.
Venezuela shouldn't feel threatened by us, blah, blah, blah.
Now, in Chavez's case, the place that he actually lost the debate and lost the vote was on the poor areas of town, the poor populations, primarily of Caracas, but throughout the country.
And they were going to supposedly be the prime beneficiaries of all this socialism.
But it's like the Soviet Union was now.
You can't, there are shortages of food.
I mean, basic staples.
Socialism just doesn't work.
And it's not inevitable, despite leftists in this country and around the world trying to make everybody think that it is.
So we'll keep a sharp eye on this.
Hugo Chavez down to defeat in terms of his reforms.
He's still the president until 2010, and I'm sure he's conniving to find ways to make it even longer than that.
All right.
The hostages had been released, and their alleged captor arrested.
A regal-looking Hillary Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis.
This made me want to puke.
This is an AP story, and it's from December 1st.
The image broadcast just as the network news began.
I wonder why how that happened.
I wonder how that happened.
She just happened to walk out of the house there looking regal, right as the nightly newscast began.
The image, the regal message, the picture of calm in the face of crisis, conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for, namely, that the Democrat presidential contender can face disorder in a most orderly manner.
Said, Mrs. Clinton, I am very grateful that this difficult day has ended so well, she declared as she stood on the microphone alone at the microphone.
A little more than three hours later, just in time for the 11 o'clock news, Clinton reaffirmed that perspective in New Hampshire.
She embraced her staffers and their families and lauded the law enforcement officials who brought a siege at her local campaign headquarters to a peaceful conclusion.
And coming just six weeks before the presidential voting begins, the timing could hardly have been more beneficial to someone hoping to stave off a loss in the Hawkeye caucus and secure a win in the New Hampshire primary, along with taking charge while giving the professionals free reign.
What in the world did she have to do with this?
She's in her home in Washington.
She took charge and yet gave local law enforcement free reign.
What does this mean?
Local law enforcement had to call Mrs. Clinton and Washington to say, how do you want us to handle this, madam president?
So she just gets so much experience of this kind of stuff, folks, who just stood aside to see local law enforcement have free reign.
She offered up a third dimension to her crisis character, and that is humility.
She said that she felt grave concern when she first heard the news of the hostage-taking.
It affected me not only because they were my staff members and volunteers, but as a mother, it was just a horrible sense of bewilderment, confusion, outrage, frustration, anger, everything at the same time.
It was a thawing moment for a stoic figure.
She buttressed it with one final message.
Clinton sought to use the sad moment as a national teaching opportunity, another skill often employed by presidents.
This is just and then this, who is this?
This is from the Politico, David Paul Kuhn.
Clinton seizes opportunity after crisis.
It looked and sounded presidential, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
This was an instance of the White House experience of this campaign.
They knew how to handle this.
What's most important is this is not contrived.
It's a real event, and that distinguish it from 99% of what happens in the campaign season.
Friday presented Clinton with a moment to look the part of president.
What did they expect her to do?
Did they expect her to sound and run around like some hysterical woman sobbing and screaming uncontrollably and asking the hostage-taker and the bad guy to let the president what did she do?
Nothing.
A clear illustration, ladies and gentlemen, of how the drive-by media is trying to influence and annoy and so forth.
And I got a big monologue coming up on this, by the way, as it affects both parties and both presidential campaigns.
Listen to this audio soundbite.
This is this morning.
Good morning, America.
Diane Sawyer interviewing Ben Warren, the stepson of the hostage taker, Leland Eisenberg, and they had this exchange.
Ben, as we know, he is now facing serious felony charges, your stepdad.
But there was a history.
He was turned away by local hospitals, turned away by a psychiatrist, unable to get his medications.
You said this was an act of desperation.
What kind of desperation do you see?
He kept expressing that he was wanting help.
He was wanting help with his problem.
And that he wasn't able to get it because he didn't have insurance and he didn't have money.
And it was an act of desperation to try to get help.
Ah, it just fits.
It fits the mold, doesn't it?
This poor man decided to do what he did because he doesn't have health insurance.
I'm not sure.
I think somebody predicted on Friday, ladies and gentlemen, this might actually be one of the many spins of this event.
Here is Mrs. Clinton last Friday night in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
News conference about the hostage situation, a portion of her remarks.
I just met with the hostages and a number of their families, and a lot of relief, a lot of gratitude, particularly for the people behind me and the teams that they represent.
I spoke with their families throughout the day to provide whatever information I had.
And I know I was bugging a lot of these people on a, it felt like a minute-by-minute basis, trying to make sure that I knew everything that was going on so that I was in a position to tell the families, to tell my campaign, and to be available to do anything that they asked of me.
Okay, so what this was, this was designed to make it seem like that she was calm amidst the crisis and managing the situation.
And of course, the drive-bys ate it up.
But she can handle a kook with road flares, duct taped to himself.
She can handle Mahmoud Achmadinizad.
A real test, wouldn't you say?
A total test.
Then an unidentified reporter said, Mrs. Clinton, what was your reaction when you heard the situation?
It affected me not only because these were my staff members and volunteers, but as a mother, it was just a horrible sense of just bewilderment, confusion, outrage, frustration, anger.
I mean, everything at the same time.
I wonder who she was mad at.
Was she mad at the poor deranged guy didn't have health insurance?
Of course, the drive-bys eat this stuff up.
And they, of course, want to know, how did it affect you personally?
How did it affect you?
You're sitting in your home in Washington, D.C., managing the crisis, looking presidential.
We want to know how it affected you personally.
Finally, from CNN's Anderson Cooper 180 on CNN, the Clinton News Network, do you know that this kook, this Eisenberg guy, actually called the Clinton News Network several times looking for the owner, Hillary Clinton, because he couldn't get mental health care and he thought she could help.
CNN didn't report that.
It'll report stuff like national security secrets and so forth, but not anything that could endanger a Clinton staffer.
So Jason Carroll, the CNN, been working the story hard.
Says Anderson Cooper joins me.
Now, what have you learned here, Jason?
Well, Anderson, what's really coming forward is a profile of a troubled 47-year-old man.
Throughout this entire ordeal, he had called CNN several times, explaining that he was a mental patient.
Of course, we did not reveal this for security reasons.
He told CNN that he needed help, that help would cost thousands of dollars, money he did not have.
He was extremely frustrated about that.
He also asked to be put in touch with Senator Clinton.
Of course, CNN did not do that.
Right, Goddesses don't take phone calls.
So the guy knows where to call to get hold of Hillary Clinton.
That's one thing.
So how deranged can he be?
He calls the Clinton News Network.
He's looking for the owner and he wants to complain about health care coverage.
Come on, folks.
They think we're idiots here.
On the cutting edge, a societal evolution rush limbo, half my brain, tied behind my back just to make it fair.
We have added a fourth song to our global warming update rotation.
Paul Shanklin, a well-known white comedian and song stylist and impressionist here, is Al Gore.
I started a joke.
I started a joke which started the whole world crying.
Oh, but they didn't see that the joke was on me.
Oh, no.
I told a few lies in a film about global warming.
Oh, but I never dreamed that they'd all believe me.
I showed them my slides.
Told them that we'll be dropping light flies.
Then I got an Academy Award for showing the world what made Tipper born that I got the Peace Prize.
And now the whole world's clapping.
Oh, but they didn't see that the joke was on me.
Oh, no.
The joke was on me.
Oh, no.
on me.
Such a great song I started a joke with the Bee Gees.
A great song for the mentally disturbed, but nevertheless a great song.
And that's Al Gore's cover.
All right, the Global Warming Stack today.
Try this headline.
Drought makes Amazon rainforest greener.
Drought would be global warming because everything is global warming.
And listen to the lead here.
Droughts, paradoxically, seem to make the Amazon rainforest even greener, a new study suggests.
Giving scientists hope that global warming's effects on a lush South American ecosystem won't be quite as bad as has been predicted.
Some of you scientists out there, tell me the last time you dealt with hope in coming up with a hypothesis or proving one.
Giving scientists hope?
The Bali conference starts today, the global warming conference.
The story here in the New Zealand Herald comes close to winning the Dan Rather Award for objective journalism.
Rich countries rapidly increasing the pollution that causes global warming to record levels, despite having solemnly undertaken to reduce it.
Three devastating new official reports reveal.
It goes on.
Look at these people, we talked about this last Friday, flying all kinds of private jets over there.
They're going to have to ferry a whole bunch of them to another island, empty, huge carbon footprint.
And the dirty little secret is nothing will come out of this other than a plan to tax rich countries who have signed on to Kyoto, who have not met their standards because they're impossible to meet by design.
By the way, this new Australian prime minister who just replaced John Howard is going to sign on to Kyoto.
We will be one of the last remaining big-time Western democracies not to sign on to it.
Dirty little secret, folks.
As I am wont to say, this is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
Ours is also a world propelled by fossil fuels.
Period.
Nothing is going to change that.
Certainly not in the foreseeable future.
All of this is simply a pipe dream removing emissions, eliminating them, carbon feetprints, all these absolutely meaningless.
Fossil fuels propel this planet and its economy.
How many of you have heard that global warming is going to lead to increased number of deaths?
Actually, there's been a fall in weather deaths.
Green scientists have been accused of overstating the dangers of climate change by researchers who found the number of people killed each year by weather-related disasters is actually falling.
They have been screaming hysterically at us for 10 years now that there's going to be a huge increase in deaths from weather-related disasters, mostly poor women and children, obviously.
Now, research shows that deaths from weather-related disasters peaked in the 1920s and have been declining ever since.
And the numbers are even more profound than that when you get specific.
Also, divorce is now being blamed for contributing to global warming.
I kid you not.
Played the best round of golf in my life on Saturday.
It was such a hoot.
I was hitting a ball farther than I've ever hit it in my life.
I was hitting a ball more accurately than I have ever hit it in my life.
I was putting better than I have ever putted in my life on a very challenging and difficult golf course.
And I've played with people who have seen me play before, and they were stunned.
I mean, frankly, they were stunned.
They just couldn't believe it.
I was playing with a good friend who I've not played golf with before, Buddy Marucci.
And Buddy took Tiger Woods to three playoff holes, I believe, in the U.S. amateur in 1995 or 96 at Newport Country Club.
And Buddy's a scratch golfer.
And he and I were teamed against three other guys.
And we started out.
I said, this is unfair to buddy.
I mean, it's like there's like three against one and a half given my game.
And we ended up, I think we were one down going into 18.
And I got a four-net three, a washer playing a $20 close out of total wash.
And I was just, folks, I was so jazzed.
I said, I'm going to go play tomorrow, which was Sunday.
And you know what happened.
When I played Sunday, it's like I had never played the game before.
And I'm doing everything that I thought I was doing the day before.
And it just wasn't work.
Of course, I had a bad attitude.
I was mad as hell.
Because when I got to the course, I said, cart paths only.
So what?
Cart paths only.
Head's not wet out there.
Well, we just seeded the fairways.
We've overseed.
I can't drive.
Oh, come on.
That means that you, if you, I spent the day trying to hit the ball near cart paths so wouldn't have to walk with four or five clubs 100 yards from the cart path to where the ball might be.
I was just fuming all day long over this, so I got home.
I got home about four o'clock.
I turned on the Giants and the Bears game and then watched the Steelers and the Bengals last night.
But it was such a hoot on Saturday I gotta.
I gotta go out again and see if I can replicate, because I was in such a foul mood.
I mean, when I got the golf course on Sunday it was a cool mood hubba hubba, looking forward to it.
And then I heard it was cart paths only rule and I kind of it was not a good, it's not a.
You got to overcome the mental obstacles and I failed to do that and that's, that's one of the great things about golf.
It presents so many different things.
I mentioned at the top of the program that Mrs. Clinton got all this fawning loving coverage over the weekend about how presidential she was in dealing with the hostage crisis at her campaign headquarters in New Hampshire, but it didn't last.
The drive-bys have forgotten that uh, she has, she has Baron, the clause.
You know what we really owe Barack Obama, a little bit of a, an atta boy, and I think we need to sort of be somewhat supportive of Barack Obama in this latest quest, because he's he's he he's he's, he's getting ready here to face a whole bunch of garbage from Mrs. Clinton over.
I mean, they're even going back and finding an essay he wrote as a kindergartner or third grader or something, about why he wanted to be president and saying, see, he's obsessed with power, he's obsessed with control.
Mrs. Clinton's out there saying ridiculous things like you don't even get a straight answer from Barack, you can't get a straight answer from, I think.
I think what these people do is purposely accuse their opponents of everything they do, and the media, the drive-bys, dutifully falled in line, ignoring the same character traits in both mr. And mrs Clinton.
Interesting thing happened on, um, I guess it was saturday night.
Mrs Clinton was supposed to go into Iowa, or maybe it was.
Yeah, it was saturday night.
She was supposed to go into Iowa on saturday, couldn't get in there because of weather.
This, uh winter storm that moved through there closed the airport in Des Moines for a while, so she had to appear at some event on the, the Heartland FORM in Des Moines, Des Moines, and she had, and she had to appear on the phone and so she did and she got booed.
She got booed over the subject of illegal immigration, once again stunning the drive-bys who were there.
The drive-bys couldn't believe it.
What happened was this?
The hostage scare got mentioned a little bit.
The announcer brushed it off quickly in order to get to questions.
Clinton, who was forced to call in to speak to the crowd of thousands because of weather, took questions on topics from health care to illegal immigration.
She was asked if she would make a decision to give undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship during her first 100 days in office.
She said, well, I've been favoring a plan to citizenship for years.
I voted for it in the Senate.
I've spoken out about it around Iowa and the country in my campaign.
And as president, comprehensive immigration reform will be a high priority for me.
Soft booing began, could be heard from the audience.
So the guy repeated his question about the first 100 days.
And Mrs. Clinton said, well, look, you got to get Congress to pass the legislation and the president to do as much as possible, which I will do.
And then here came some louder boos from the crowd.
She was thanked for her appearance, and the moderator expressed sympathies for the ordeal that she suffered yesterday.
Clinton thanked the moderator.
More booing could be heard from the crowd again after she hung up the phone.
The candidate of inevitability booed after a phone appearance with questions on illegal immigration.
And we've got the polling data out there that suggests that Barack has either pulled ahead or soon will pull ahead of Mrs. Clinton.
This has caused Clinton Inc. to come out of the woodwork, face the nation yesterday.
Howard Wolfson, one of Hillary's chief aides, has this exchange with David Axelrod, who is one of Obama's campaign advisors.
He had this exchange on the program.
We found out this week, which is that he has been using and operating a so-called leadership pack in apparent contravention of campaign finance laws, taking in money from lobbyists, despite the fact that he said he doesn't take money from lobbyists, taking in money from lobbyists and giving money out to candidates in New Hampshire and Iowa to support his presidential campaign.
Senator Clinton does not have such a pack.
Others have shut theirs down.
I would call on David.
David, will you shut down Senator Obama's slush fund?
Howard, you know, one thing, before I answer that question, one of the interesting things in this Des Moines Register poll is that by a very wide margin, people believe Senator Clinton is running a negative campaign.
And what you just did is one of the reasons they feel that way.
They're right.
The Clintons are famous for dirty campaigns and negative campaigns.
But here's the thing, folks.
If Barack Obama, look at what he's just been accused of.
He's just been accused of running a slush fund from the Clintons by Howard Wolfson.
Slush fund, try multiple slush funds, the legal defense fund, the illegal Chinese campaign contributions back in the 90s, the Chinatown contributions this year.
year Norman Shue and the Clintons call Obama and his PAC a slush fund if I'll tell you if if if Barack Obama has any onions here folks he would stomp Mrs. Clinton on this she is the last person in the country running a campaign to talk about ethics and money in the same sentence and if he had if he if he's if he's if he's serious about this If he and his camp are really serious,
they're going to say more than just, well, look at this.
They're running a negative campaign.
They are going to have to turn this around on her and on her husband and say that this is the heights of chutzpah to be accused of running a slush fund by people who have created it as a as a work of art and who continue to do so to this day.
Campaign slush fund.
He's got a golden opportunity here, folks.
But it does mean Mrs. Clinton is in somewhat of a state of panic.
A lot of people think that they're a week ahead of everybody on the camp, in terms of polling data and understanding what's happening.
And a lot of people think that she's panicking and coming out with the claws bared at Obama and others because they've got some internal numbers that show her crashing in Iowa and maybe in some other states.
It could explain it.
A brief time out.
We'll look at it more when we come back.
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Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies to the phones now.
Sarah in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, you're first.
Nice to have you with us.
Thanks, Rush.
Well, I never imagined that I would ever be able to say that I was right and you were wrong.
Boomer sooner, Rush.
Wait a second.
You can't.
Did I make a prediction?
Well, you rooted for the Tigers.
I did.
I mean, rooted, but I didn't come out and make a prediction.
Look at how eager people are to have me proclaim to be wrong about something.
Well, it was one of those things I mentioned to my husband.
I said, he's rooting for the Tigers.
Then I went, wait a minute.
He's from Missouri.
Yeah.
I can be okay with that.
My whole family, except me, went to the University of Missouri.
See, and I'm the only one that didn't go to OU.
Yep.
But you're still, are you Oklahoman by a native Oklahoman?
Yeah, I'm from Norman, and I'm the strange one.
I'm the one that actually went to OSU.
Well, you know, you guys, I understand you're gloating and all that, but understand something.
The Missouri guys, they go to class.
Beautiful.
Okay.
Gotcha, Sarah.
Gotcha.
Love you, Rush.
I really do.
And I have to tell you that my kids even adore you.
My seven-year-old has, this is the first year.
Her seventh birthday was the first year she didn't ask me to invite you to her birthday party.
Is that right?
That's sweet.
Yeah.
That is so sweet.
This program spans all demographics, all age groups, all religions, all three sexes.
I mean, we're everywhere.
Well, and he's home school.
And so periodically, she takes a break and sits and watches you on the video cam on the computer.
Well, look, I appreciate that.
Look, congratulations to the Sooners.
They played a great game.
I watched it Saturday night.
I was just, I was befuddled by the play calling, particularly the first half.
I was befuddled by what happened to Missouri offensive line throughout the whole game.
And of course, if you're going to win a national championship, you've got to have a power running back.
Their red zone performance was just disappointing.
I mean, you got first in goal from the six.
You end up fourth and 14, fourth and goal from the 14 or 16 yard line.
They couldn't move it in the red zone.
They had a chance to win the game on numerous occasions early before they lost it.
But congratulations to Oklahoma.
It was a great game for them.
Patricia, Hilton Head, South Carolina.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, greetings from Nahoma Golf, Hilton Head Island.
Thank you.
I just have one question.
Hillary thinks we can solve things by face-to-face negotiations.
If she thinks she can solve Iran and Iraq, why was she so afraid not to meet one-on-one with the hostage taker?
I think you must understand the stature of leaders and presidents.
They don't personally do these kinds of things in a situation like this.
They give law enforcement free reign while running the operation from their homes.
I mean, this is the new template for how you deal with a crisis.
Understand what the drive-by is.
However Hillary dealt with this was the new way of dealing with this.
As long as it turned out okay, that's what the report was going to be.
But look, don't sweat it because the good vibes and all the, wow, wasn't she great?
Wasn't she presidential?
From the drive-bys over the weekend has vanished with the arrival of the news cycle from yesterday and on into today about polling data in Iowa and other places.
In fact, this is a Rasmussen's report, daily presidential tracking poll.
Let me just read what they've posted recently here.
It's actually from this morning.
If the current round of Huckamania is nothing more than Mike Huckabee's 15 minutes of fame, the former Arkansas governor is certainly making the most of it.
Today, in the first full round of national polling completed since last week's debate among Republican, well, debate, among Republican presidential hopefuls, Huckabee has pulled within three points of the front-running Rudy Giuliani.
This is nationwide, not just Iowa.
Heading into the debate, Giuliani led Huckabee by 12.
Not only that, new polling data released today shows that Huckabee has pulled within a single percentage point of Hillary Clinton in a general election matchup.
Huckabee also a frontrunner in Iowa and essentially tied for second in New Hampshire.
Some pundits believe that Huckabee's numbers will surely go down as fast as they've gone up, while others are beginning to consider the possibility that Huckabee may become a serious contender for the Republican nomination.
I warned you people to keep a sharp eye out for all of this two or three weeks ago.
Let's do a little analysis here, get started on all this.
The liberals constantly complain about the politics of personal destruction, do they not?
While doing so, they want us to ignore the Clinton marriage.
They want us to ignore, what's her name, Chelsea, but they're digging up all they can on Rudy's marriages.
The drive-bys are.
And the liberals, who want that kind of thing off the table when they are the focus, can't wait to dig up all this stuff on Rudy.
Romney is going to give a speech about his religion.
He's going to do it at George H.W. Bush's library down in College Station, Texas.
He's going to be introduced when he does this speech by George H.W. Bush, even though the libs tell us that there's separation of church and state.
Yet Romney, for some reason, feels compelled to go out there and give the speech on his religion.
While at the same time, not a single word about the religious practices or beliefs of Democrats.
Nor do we get any stories about this radical minister that runs around ministering to Obama, Fred Thompson.
Fred Thompson said to be lazy and disinterested as a candidate, yet he's out there campaigning as hard as any other candidate, including the Democrats.
But they seek to create an impression of him, a negative impression of him.
Huckabee, right now being really built up, but I want to warn you, Huckabee fans, it isn't going to be long before he's going to be characterized as a Bible thumper and somebody who would bring his religion into the Oval Office.
They're going to build him up only to knock him down.
Same way they built up McCain, who loved it at the time.
Then they tripped him up over the war.
Now they're trying to revive his campaign.
If you look at all this and you understand how to look at it, the drive-bys are so thoroughly involved in trying to influence the Republican primary.
And on their terms, this debate at CNN was just the most brazen example of it.
But the attempt to characterize all these people from Rudy to Romney to Thompson to Huckabee.
This is the drive-by media trying to create impressions of these men before a single vote has been cast.
They do this with their polling as well, as just as they did trying to influence anti-war opinion and sentiment in the country with their reporting on the war and then taking polls after their reporting, which was universally negative and biased.
Now, let's look at Iowa.
I mean, to be honest, it's a very unusual form of voting.
Anybody can go in there and attend the Hawkeye Caucasi.
We did the story a couple of weeks ago, actually, last week.
You don't even have to be able to vote to go to the Hawkeye Caucus.
People need to be motivated to attend what are, in effect, meetings, little coffee clutches in homes and other places where they cast their votes.
And yet the vote is viewed as illustrative of national trends or trends in other states.
And what this is all about, folks, is perception.
And perception is important in politics.
Sometimes perception is reality in politics.
But the media will take the result and try to twist it to support their favorite candidates and diminish the candidates they don't like.
And of course, when it comes to Republican candidates, they're going to try to build up that candidate who they think is going to be the easiest for Mrs. Clinton to beat.
And after they've built this candidate up and created this perception, it's going to be time to tear him down in time for the general election back after this.
I have some more of this drive-by analysis of the well, my analysis of the drive-bys, the way they're going to try to impact both presidential campaigns during the primaries here.
We'll get to that as the next hour unfolds.
And we'll also be looking forward to talking to you at 800-282-2882.
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