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Jan. 31, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 31, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
It's an open borders guy.
That's all it did.
There's always an explanation, a reason for these guys making stupid statements.
He's an open borders guy.
Pure and simple.
Folks, I'm sorry.
We got things popping here.
You just happen to tune in, uh, or the show just happened to start.
When HR was expressing some frustration that he had finished.
Now, wait a minute, I got to check the email here.
A little emergency going on, let's see the.
All right, okay.
Everything worked.
Greetings, my friends.
We're high atop the EIB building, Midtown Manhattan here again.
Uh Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, telephone number.
Uh, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
Headline, Hillary Clinton says she can control her husband.
The Clintons are in a mess.
She's got to answer this kind of question.
The front page story on a New York Times said we finally found out who that guy is that gave Clinton 31.2 million dollars.
He's some clown from uh some mining guy from up in Canada that flew Clinton around on his MD-87.
That's like a stretch of a DC 9.
I know my aircraft.
Went over there to Kazakhstan, you know where Barrat's from.
Uh and and uh swung a deal.
That's a very oppressive regime over there, swung a deal for this guy to get the mining rights on a bunch of uranium.
Uh and uh not only was there 31 million dollars to the Clinton Global Initiative, there was a hundred million dollar donation to some other Clinton thing.
Not the library and massage parlor.
Uh and then ABC got some tapes of uh of Hillary when she was on the board at Walmart, not doing one damn thing to lift a finger for unions when the rest of the Walmart board was ripping unions and blaming unions for being a bunch of parasite bloodsuckers.
Uh and we've got we've got the well, we've got some audio of that, and she's gonna have to explain that.
Uh they got this big debate.
Well, their debates tonight, right?
At the Kodak Theater, it's gonna be a snoozer.
You're gonna I mean Wolf Blitzer's gonna uh uh moderate this thing.
I'll be in the air winging my way back uh to the southern climbs of the Southern Command.
I'll watch a replay of it.
Try this.
Jimmy Carter in Playboy Magazine, November 1976, quote, I've looked on a lot of women with lust.
I have committed adultery in my heart many times.
Jimmy Carter in November 1976, January 30th of this year, at age 83, Jimmy Carter.
Obama's campaign has been extraordinary and titillating for me and my family.
Jimmy Carter, weighing in.
And they're supporting Obama, but they didn't want him to endorse Obama publicly.
So what that ain't gonna happen.
Obama has called Clinton a divisive figure on the Republican side, the big news all day today.
I mean, I got a bunch of emails from people say, Rush, you can't repeat this.
It's between us.
But Romney's not gonna buy any television for the February 5th super duper primaries.
He's not gonna buy it.
And the signal there was, well, I guess Romney's throwing in a towel.
Then, mere moments ago, I received the following story.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to run a significant level of TV ads in California and other states that vote Tuesday in a super duper primary, essentially a national primary.
This, according to Romney's camp, uh this signals a willingness to aggressively try to derail Republican frontrunner John McCain.
Apparently, from what I'm hearing, Romney is really PO'd.
He is fed up with these personal attacks from McCain.
He's fed up with McCain's attitude at the debate last night.
You know, McCain does have this St. John of Arizona type attitude.
You're not supposed to ask him about his past record.
Uh and and uh he just continued with this lie about Romney not supporting the surge of wanting timelines for troop withdrawals and so forth.
Uh and he you know McCain got a little testy in there uh last night, and people saw it.
I don't know if it's gonna have any effect, you know, these debates.
You uh never really know, but apparently Romney is is uh is fed up here uh and is gonna run some ads.
Now Romney's ads uh have not been personal, McCain's attacks have been.
Uh Romney's ads are just you know attacking McCain on issues, votes, records, that sort of thing.
And that's you know, McCain's kind of like the Clintons in that sense.
You tell the truth about them, and they think it's a personal attack.
Now, before we get into all this, and by the way, an audio soundbite roster.
I get in here today and I say, Cookie, what's cooking?
In the audio soundbite, how many pages do I hear about?
I don't know what he.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine pages with anywhere from two to four bytes on each page.
You get a total here, twenty-six sound bites, and I will bet you in 18 of them I am mentioned.
That's tough, folks.
A guy like me doesn't like to make myself the focus of the program.
I'm sitting here struggling whether I should play all these that mention me.
What am I?
I guess I am the big I'm I am the biggest issue, I guess, in the camp.
I'm a bigger issue than the candidates are.
Uh nobody has ever given me 100 million, Mr. Snurtley.
Uh, like they give nobody ever gave me 130 million.
Everything I have, I earned.
But before we get into all this in a tale, I gotta tell you a little story.
I got an invitation to attend a screening of an HBO made-for-TV movie.
Screening was last night at the Time Warner Center.
I went.
I was invited by columnist Cindy Adams of the New York Post, which today, by the way, endorses Obama.
This is after Rupert Murdoch has all these fundraisers for Hillary.
Who?
Anyway, that's off the beaten path.
Now, you can imagine an HBO screening in New York for a movie starring Susan Sarandon.
She plays Doris Duke, you know, the tobacco heiress, and this the movie is basically about Doris Duke's time with that uh butler, Bernard Laftery or Lafferty, uh, whatever.
So I said, okay, I'm game, I'll go.
Show him there's a not 150 people there, I think maybe a little bit more.
It's a as a and there's a little cocktail party in a giant room before we're ushered into the screening room.
And it was the usual uh New York entertainment uh and literati crowd, uh a bunch of progressives, uh liberals, shall we say, many of whom I have known of, but I've never met.
Uh and two, I mean, I didn't talk to all of them, but they were folks, they were amazingly forthcoming and friendly.
I figure it's because they finally saw a new face.
They've been going to these events for 20 years.
It's the same people they see four or five nights a week at these things.
They saw a new face.
Whoa!
And then they saw it was I mean, Sandra Bernhard stared icily at me.
But everybody else, I'm almost blinded by the flashbulbs.
Uh you know Bob Balaban?
Do you know who Bob Balaban is?
Bob Balaban is a dire, he directed this thing, but he's uh he had the Gosford Park, one of my all-time favorite movies.
Uh Bob Balaban was in it, it was his story.
Robert Altman, another far-left guy who was the director of that movie.
But uh if you saw Bob Balaban HR, you'd know who he is.
And I walked up and all these people were just nice as they could be.
But here's the interesting thing, folks.
And we're talking, I met I met Sir Harry Evans and Tina Brown, who I had not met before.
They love McCain.
All of these entertainment people here in New York love McCain.
They just love McCain.
I'm saying, what is they and they made it a point to tell me this.
Uh I didn't bring up politics.
They did.
Yeah, they love McCain.
They're not too crazy about Hillary.
Obama, yeah, they got some uh deep affection for.
I didn't ask them, well, oh, and they hate Romney.
They I mean, I well, I don't I don't know why they hate Romney.
I everybody seems to hate Romney.
The Republicans hate Romney.
I think it's I think they're just jealous.
You know, when that kind of hatred comes up, it's and I think in McCain's case he hates him because he runs ads, tell the truth about McCain's record.
But um, but my more interesting to me, one of all these types love Romney, uh McCain.
And I figure it's got to be the POW story.
I mean, they they find that honorable, but I also think that they hate Bush.
And McCain hates Bush.
Or McCain makes it he's opposed Bush and a whole lot of things.
Uh plus McCain is on their side of the aisle a lot of times on issues.
I also think uh based that this is tough to see because all anecdotal, but just a couple people made mention of the fact that they feel safer as Americans with a guy like McCain in the Oval Office in case there's another attack, which does not bode well for Hillary.
So I think that's uh that's part of it too.
But the funniest thing that happened, you know, well, we get there, and there's a there's a little bit of line with people getting rid of their coats and so forth to head in, and I happen to see, while she didn't see me, Joy Behar.
Now, if you guys, oh yeah, wait till you hear the wait till you hear this, snerdly.
Now, for those of you that don't know, Joy Behar and I go way back.
Uh when I when I worked at WABC, when that was well, that was actually where we did the program from from uh from noon to three, Joy did a local New York show from a different studio at WABC from Tandanoon.
So we're we're in there all the time.
And there was no love lost.
Not just because of politics.
There just was no love lost.
It was civil, but no love loss.
But I have experience she asked me to appear with her as a guest on a couple TV pilots that she two, one up in New Haven, Connecticut, and one who flew out to California for.
Peaceful coexistence, you know, supporting a fellow colleague.
Throw politics out of the way.
So I saw her there with her boyfriend, a guy named Steve, who's been her boyfriend since uh I knew back in the WABC days.
And she's got a purse and she's got this big coat, she's trying to take it off, and I said, you know, my strategy here, make the preemptive strike.
So I walked over, I gave her a huge hug, you know, a little peck on the cheek.
She has no idea who it is.
You know, because I'm I she's I came up from her left side, she's not, she didn't even see me yet.
So I gave her a little puck peck on the cheek.
Joy, how are you?
And she starts to like try to push me away and looks at me and says, What the hell are you doing here?
Uh and then we started talking and so forth.
Now, she told a version of this on the view today that is not correct.
Uh she exaggerated, I'm not even going to bother playing that one, but Regis Philbin was there last night and was an eyewitness.
And he talked about it on his show this morning, and this is what he said he saw.
Here's what I saw with my own eyes.
Okay.
Rush Limbaugh, who came with Cindy Adams.
Haven't seen Rush in years.
You know, he lives down there in Florida.
There he is.
And when he saw Joy Behar.
Now they are on two different poles of politics.
Do you know what I mean?
Yes, they are.
He's conservative.
She's a liberal.
He went over, took her in his arms.
In his arms.
And gave her a great big giant bear Rush Limbaugh hug.
And what happened next?
And I must tell you.
So I go up to Joy Behar.
She said, He gave me a hug.
I said, Yeah.
And you know something I noticed?
Joy Behar's face was flush.
She enjoyed it.
She loved it.
Yes, I saw that with my own eyes.
There could be something developing there, I'm not sure.
It became the talk of the night.
It became the talk of the night.
Well, we got a quick preemptive strike, Mr. Especially.
Well, you kill them with kindness.
I haven't seen her.
It's gotta be 12 years.
Or maybe uh maybe even longer than that.
I don't know.
Time flies by so fast I get lost in tabulating the years.
All right, quick timeout, we'll come back, we'll get started with all the political stuff here.
Uh I also got an interesting email today from my brother, well-known nationally syndicated columnist uh and attorney, and and he's uh he's joting down ideas for his next column, and he sent me these ideas, and they're I'm not gonna take them all, but he's got an interesting theory about how the war in Iraq is actually what is splitting conservatives in this election.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Our first caller, I'm I'm not gonna get to the calls it's Steve from Margate, New Jersey.
Steve hang out, but he's got a great point.
I can tell what it is this on the uh message line up there.
Um it McCain last night uh attacking Romney's wealth, uh patriotism over profit.
I mean, we we had John McCain, the leading Republican in the uh in the primary field right now, attacking economics on the basis of class envy.
It just that's the kind of stuff that just rubs me raw, folks.
I mean, we got Republicans start talking like liberals and using liberal language so far.
I just it just I don't know, it just sits wrong.
It just it just it greats.
Now I want to share with you in a very modified detail, uh one of my brother's theories as he's brainstorming himself uh with himself here over his next column.
He says this, isn't it a little ironic that uh being in a state of war is having the effect of diluting the impact of conservatism.
In other words, if if there were no war on terror, there probably would not have been a Rudy Giuliani in the field, much less in contention.
Uh and it might even be the same with McCain for different reasons, because uh if there were no war on terror, then one of the apparent strong suits of McCain would not be on the table.
Now, this is a big if, because you know, it we are at war and there is a war on terror, but it's uh people are looking and trying to explain the fracturing of the Republican base, the conservative base.
I think I did a very good job of it yesterday.
Uh, I'll go through it again if people want to know, but this is another explanation.
Okay, we're at war.
The war on terror is is is itself helping to tear apart or fracture uh in a temporary way the uh Republican uh base, sort of like uh changing our perspective or our emphasis.
Uh so in in picking a president, the overriding concerns of the war uh, not just for us, but even for some libs, apparently, uh, militate in favor of picking a candidate who's perceived to be adequate to the task of commander in chief, even if he's woefully inadequate on uh on other things.
Uh and I thought I thought this is an interesting theory.
I hope he develops this further and uh writes the column, because what'll happen is that many people, when they see it, will think he has copied me.
Uh when in fact I have I have given him full credit here.
Uh in addition to that, I got a I got a blogger here.
Uh C, what's the blog?
I don't know what the blog is.
It's a blogger.
I don't know where the blog is from, but the guy who's gone through the exit poll data and has analyzed it via the CNN website and their exit poll numbers.
He says they reveal some surprising things from Florida.
Romney won pro-lifers.
Romney won the mainstream religious, Huckabee won the very religious, uh, which was less than one-fifth of the pool.
Romney won the Protestants, Romney tied Huckabee with evangelicals.
Romney won the pro-George W. Bush voters.
Romney is the primary second choice of Giuliani voters and Thompson voters and McCain voters.
Romney won the immigration hardliners.
Romney won the upper middle class, earning between 100,000 and 200,000 annually.
Romney won the terrorism-oriented voters.
Romney won the self-identified conservatives and the self-identified very conservatives.
Romney won the values-oriented voters.
Romney won the white voters.
Romney won the tax-cutting voters.
As this blogger writes, in short, Romney won the Republican Party's idea of itself, and that too is a big deal.
If you're white Protestant, anti-abortion, you go to church on Sunday, you think, well, the president, you want lower taxes, you hate terrorists, you make a good living.
You want to do something about immigration, you live in Florida, chances are you voted Romney.
The question before Florida was whether McCain could win in a closed Republican race, and now we know he can.
The question now is whether he can win with conservatives, and in Florida, McCain did not.
As we all he won with the seasoned citizens uh in big numbers, he won with uh, you know, the uh the uh Latino and Hispanic community in South Florida and Miami Dade, and he won the moderates and the independents.
Now he had to be a Republican to vote, but you come out of there talk the exit poll, you're Republican, he goes, I'm an independent, but I'm a Republican.
People are proud to say they're independents.
Really impresses the pollsters.
So these things just keep uh, you know, adding up, and we find out that uh McCain uh is in a lot of these places not actually the Republican candidate.
Uh he is the candidate of enough of enough Republicans, but independents and moderates and probably even some uh some liberals.
Today's Washington Post story by Dan Balls and Ann Kornblut includes this paragraph.
Republicans, on the other hand, see the prospect of a clear future in their coalition as a result of the nomination contest.
McCain is winning important primaries, but he's doing so without the support of the party's conservative or religious base.
Well, what what more needs to be said?
He is winning for the reasons that we've laid out here.
He's facing a fractured Republican field with no candidate galvanizing conservatives.
That's that's what Romney's choice is now.
That's right, my friends, talent on lawn from God, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
The Washington Post also today writes this, a David Broder column, and he writes in his column today unelected conservative ideologues, Rush Limbaugh and George Will can mutter in frustration.
But Republican politicians recognize what was written here as long ago as December 2, meaning in his column, Broder's column, quote.
If the Republican Party really wanted to hold on to the White House in 2009, it would grit its teeth, swallow its doubts, and nominate a ticket of John McCain for president and Mike Huckabee for vice president and president in waiting.
These insights, uh ladies and gentlemen, from an unelected liberal columnist, are worth less than the paper on which they are written.
It's always I I love getting advice what we Republicans need to do from liberal Democrat pundits.
They are not conservative, they are not Republican, they presume to tell us, they say we're muttering, George Will and I are muttering around.
We're supposed to take the advice of look at what's happening here.
Too many of us are.
We're taking advice of liberal Democrats on what our party ought to be and who our standard bearers and president in waiting ought to be.
Now I have a lot of great respect for Drape David Broder.
He's he's he's a dean, he's he's accomplished a lot, and he's he's a very smart guy.
You know, none of this is personal, but he is the embodiment of the squishy liberal drive-by media.
He's a man of liberal political views who pretends to be objective.
Uh and it, by the way, it's worth recalling.
I will never forget that was in Sacramento.
After Reagan's landslide over Mondel in 1984, and Broder writes a column, Reagan's Victory, a triumph of what?
Greed and selfishness on the part of the American people.
Uh therefore, uh you it's important to note that that uh David Broder was a harsh critic of Ronaldus Magnus when Magnus was president for the same reason.
Uh Reagan was a so-called ideologue.
These liberals love ideologues if they're liberal ideologues.
They hate us when we are ideologues.
Uh, you know, Reagan was a so-called ideologue.
If for liberals, this means you're a conservative who takes ideas and principles seriously.
And I'm telling you, liberalism is threatened by ideas.
There are no ideas on the left.
They're just emotions and thoughts, hate-filled anger.
We have all the ideas.
We have the principles.
We hopefully stick to them.
Uh, and that threatens liberals.
And I think one of the reasons they're able to embrace candidates like Senator McCain is that he's been so willing to cast conservative principles aside when it makes sense for him politically, socially, or what have you.
Now, before we get to the audio sound bites, I want to get to some of these phone calls because people have been waiting here since the start of the show.
Steve in Margate, New Jersey.
Hello, sir, and welcome.
You are up first today.
Uh Day one did us, Rush.
Thank you.
Rush, how could anyone think that John McCain understands the uniqueness of the incredible economic engine that runs the United States of America?
He's admitted he's admitted he doesn't.
Well, that's obvious because every chance he gets, he makes fun of Mitt Romney's wealth and Wall Street greed.
What do Mil Mitt Romney do wrong?
He's living the American dream.
This is not keating five uh money.
This is this is he's living the American dream, his families behind him, and he's for a conservative to mock personal achievement makes about as much sense as the conservative saying that Hillary Clinton would make a good president, and John McCain says that too.
It doesn't make any sense.
I know.
I uh that's as I mentioned at the top of the program when I saw what you wanted to talk about.
That's kind of a greats on me.
Uh jealousy over achievement, if the achievement has led to wealth.
Uh Romney earned it.
He's got experience doing it.
Uh the greed on Wall Street, is this line patriotism over profit?
You know, uh this is a very important thing.
One of the extensions of patriotism in in our world is the U.S. military.
What does he think pays for that?
Where does he think the U.S. government that he wants to run gets its money?
It gets it from the citizens who are pursuing profit.
And the government gets a portion of their profit, i.e.
their salary.
And that's what funds the military that uh fuels the precious patriotism of Senator McCain.
I know, it grates.
It grates.
But look, Steve, you're gonna have to face facts.
As far as enough Republican voters are concerned, none of this stuff matters, apparently.
None of it matters.
There's something else out there.
Some of their dynamic fueling this, maybe fear of terrorism.
We need somebody that uh not gonna waffle and you know cave into the terrorists like the Democrats are making everybody think they will.
Uh prisoner war stories, valorous, all this who knows.
But these uh it's obvious that uh these these policy things uh and principles of a lot of Republicans well that's not true.
You look at the exit polls from these states, Republicans and conservatives are voting for Romney.
It's just that enough independents and moderates are crossing over.
I don't know.
We'll just it it is what it is.
Uh we'll see how it shakes out on uh on Tuesday.
Allen and Mesa, Arizona, great to have you.
It's not far from Phoenix's Super Bowl, uh, Glendale and all that.
Boy, you got you guys are gonna have an amazing weekend.
You got 500,000 people in town for the golf tournament, plus the Super Bowl, you're gonna have grid luck for 48 hours.
Well, I uh uh I don't know how many people you've heard about moving out of their houses, renting them out and everything else.
It's uh it's quite a party from what uh I can see from the I can imagine.
That's what happens at Augusta every year.
Half the town of Martinez, Georgia's leaves and they and they rent their houses to the players and the media coming in, and they make you know, it's like their big income tax refund every year, doubled or tripled.
Exactly, exactly.
It's a lot of fun.
We're looking forward to it.
But uh I Rush, I just wanted to get right to the point.
Uh it's exasperating.
Uh, you know, you just mentioned a little earlier about uh when CNN profiled the voters in Florida, and every way you cut it, uh every conservative Republican, uh, whether you're religio you know, being religious, uh uh Protestant, and evangelical, everybody's voting for Romney.
And so my question is, where are all these other votes coming from that keeps putting uh putting McCain ahead?
Well, in Florida, uh like uh in in uh South Carolina, this is true too.
You know, there has been it's not we've talked about it in this program, but it doesn't get discussed a whole lot.
There has been an exodus of New York uh and Northeastern liberals who have just gotten fed a lot of from Long Island, uh some in Massachusetts, who are just unable to keep up economically with property taxes, salaries aren't enough to maintain uh uh homes that the way so they're moving south.
Uh they're moving to Florida, they are moving to North Carolina, they're moving to South Carolina, other places like that, and they're bringing with them their politics.
And of course, you have in the Northeast a lot of quote unquote Republicans or independents, moderates or what have you.
Uh when you get into South Florida, you have uh a lot of very liberal Republicans and a whole host of liberal Democrats.
Uh And so the point of the exit poll from CNN was that Romney's winning the conservative Republican vote, but the Republican base has sort of been watered down in some of these states by the exodus of independent, so-called liberal Republicans from Northeastern states over the years have been moving in.
And that's that's uh uh the best I can do to explain it.
Because the exit polls don't uh, you know, that's and what if we also accept the validity of the exit polls, too.
That's always up for grabs.
Uh down here, it's uh for those who know for us who know uh McCain at this level, uh most of us understand it essentially.
He's Republican in name only.
And uh uh when it comes to the biggest issues, and we've seen him thwart so often.
Uh President Bush's uh attempts to uh you know bring a little bit of civility and uh order back into the you know the judiciary and and other points.
The thing is that it surprises us that so many people seem to forget McCain's activities and and just the recent past.
I know that that's what we were just talking about as previous call.
I don't think they care.
There are other things that make them not care about, and my remember my brother's theory that it's the war on terror and the fact that a lot of people haven't forgotten 9-11 and are now concerned that such an attack could happen, and so that takes precedence over some of these other things when Republican candidates are measured against the squish on the on the Democrat side.
Obama, who out who today, Obama's if I'm elected, I'm gonna have a summit with Muslim countries.
Uh, you know, and he and Hillary are in a battle here to be the you know who can get us out of Iraq the first and so forth.
They may be scaring a lot of people with this uh with this talk.
So uh I think I think the overriding factor here is that uh security matters to a lot of people.
It's causing them to overlook things that they think are academic if we lose our security, so forth.
That's one possible explanation.
But you sound like people from Arkansas.
I remember back in 1992.
Clinton and Hillary running for the White House and call after call from Arkansas.
Oh, come people don't know what we know.
How come they not?
Who can explain it, folks?
Who can explain it?
Uh been getting calls like this from Arizona for ever since I've been hosting the program, and McCain's been in the Senate.
Your host, L. Rush Bow, Highly Trade and Broadcast Specialist.
Once again dominating discussion topics all night last night on the news, cable news networks, and even the um nightly newscasts on the networks.
Let's start with the Fox News Channel special report Britt Hume during the round table with the Fox All-Stars, Fred Barnes, Mort Kondracki of Roll Call, and uh syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer.
Uh they they say here that Mitt Romney is the only hope for conservatives, and the only hope for Romney is me.
Listen to this.
You look, he enunciates all their issues.
They just don't think he got there soon enough, some conservatives, but uh that's their only hope is Romney.
It'll have to be organized by Rush Limbaugh.
And it'll fail.
Uh that was Crowhammer complaining.
So Barnes says, yeah, well, uh Romney announces all our issues, but uh Romney's their only hope.
Kondraki said it'll have to be organized by Rush Limbaugh.
Crowdhammer says it will fail.
He didn't say I will fail.
Uh I know Charles.
I've talked we've interviewed him for the uh Limbaugh letter.
Uh he thinks the effort will fail.
But look at all this talk about I'm gonna have to do this.
Where is the candidate's responsibility in any of this?
Now let's go to a uh little montage here.
You know, we opened the program yesterday with my political announcement that I was not conceding.
I was gonna stay in this for the long haul, that the fight would continue.
Some of the drive-bys didn't get it.
Some of them, you know, I'm bouncing off of them, saying I'm finished, Limbaugh's over, he was defeated by McCain.
So I did my little announcement yesterday that I'm not defeated, I'm not conceding.
And they did a serious analysis.
Some of them did.
Here's a montage where you got Chris Matthews, Ron Claiborne of ABC, who just gets it.
Totally wrong, although not in this bite.
Uh Neil Cavuto, Bill Whitaker, CBS, and even Sean Hannity.
Take a look at Rush Limbaugh Today hitting McCain.
Senator McCain's been able to cobble together enough votes to win in a few states.
Fine, he deserves credit for that.
But to pretend that Senator McCain is the choice of conservatives when exit poll data from every primary state show just the opposite.
Attacks from the likes of radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
He is not the choice of conservatives, as opposed to the choice of the Republican establishment.
Rush Limbaugh today bound to continue attacking John McCain's record despite his Florida win.
He is not the choice of conservatives.
McCain is routinely savaged by Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh on the issue of Senator McCain.
I will not retire.
I will not concede.
I will not drift away.
I will not fade away until every American agrees with me.
Now, this is an example of what I'm talking about.
Criticism from the likes of Rush Limbaugh.
Attacks on Rush Limbaugh, vowing to continue to attacking John McCain's record.
Pointing it out.
Not attacking.
This is what I mean.
Tell the truth about these.
It's like the Clintons.
You tell the truth about them.
It's a personal attack, and they stick the Appo research on you.
At any rate, we move on.
This is last night on PMS NBC DNC TV's Tucker Carlson show, Chatsworth Osborne Jr.
Uh talking to senior McCain advisor Mark McKinnon.
Now about me.
Now McKinnon ran all of George W. Bush's media in 2000 and 2004.
Wouldn't it just be easier to fly down to Palm Beach and take Rush Limbaugh out to dinner and slobber all over him?
I mean, why not suck up to Rush Limbaugh?
I mean, wouldn't that just kind of fix some of your problems right away?
Why don't you do that?
Uh I I think Senator McCain is going to communicate as he has with others in the Republican Party, extend an olive branch, communicate on the issues that are important to him that I think are important to Rush Limbaugh and everybody else in the Republican Party, and I I think the rift will be healed.
Well, he's got to go out to everybody in the Republican Party.
Not everybody.
He's got the Jurassic Park base.
Uh, these old blue blood country club dinosaurs and Velociraptors.
Uh uh What do you mean?
What do you mean when am I going to get healed?
Well, that's just it.
I'm wondering if what what would happen if there was an outreach?
I think that's if McCain came down to slobber all over me to suck up to me.
Uh what?
What am I gonna do?
I don't I don't know what he could do.
Um, I'm not gonna foreclose it.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just thinking out loud.
Cudlow and company on the CNBC last night.
Cudlow and the pollster Scott Rasmussen had this exchange about your host, me.
Does McCain have to literally go to see Rush Limbaugh and sit with him?
Is there any way out of this?
Otherwise, they're gonna be pounding McCain on a daily basis right through Super Tuesday.
The best thing for John McCain right now is to be attacked by people like Rush Limbaugh because it helps his general election prospects.
And that's what he has to be concerned about now.
Now, how would it help his general election prospects to can to continue to be attacked by me?
Exactly right, Snerdley.
The Libs would love it.
I think I told you I was with these entertainment libs last night here at this HBO screening, Susan Sarandon movie.
They all love McCain.
I think one of the reasons they love McCain is that a lot of conservatives may hate conservatives, they hate Bush.
McCain doesn't like Bush so much, or has made it plain that he disagrees with Bush a lot.
Uh so this is what Scott Rasmussen means.
Uh, because clearly, the so-called attacks, which are not attacks, he just criticism McCain's record.
Uh, it's not sending conservatives to vote for McCain.
My so-called base is not going to rushing to vote for McCain.
It's the independents and the moderates out there that are doing that.
One more Laura O'Donnell, I'm sorry, Kelly O'Donnell, uh, about a conversation she had with McCain about me.
I asked him about Rush Limbaugh.
He did not use Rush's name, but said the party has to unite, and people have to come to terms with that to have any hope uh in November.
And he said he acknowledged that Democrats have higher favorability on issues.
Those were his words.
Right, and that's who he's trying to please.
That's who he's he I don't think he cares about uniting the Republican Party, folks.
May I be he hasn't he doesn't need it.
He doesn't need the Republican Party to win.
I got a great bite by Sam Donaldson here.
Sadly, I don't have the busy broadcast time to play it.
We'll get to it soon, though.
Sit tight.
Uh, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in mere moments will endorse Senator McCain.
Some guy is hogging the microphone right now, uh, preventing uh the governator from getting to it.
Uh, but that's what Sam Donaldson's bit is about.
He says uh Schwarzenegger's fine, but McCain needs somebody else.
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