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April 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 21, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, our armies are on the move out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Operation Chaos Army is preparing to deploy in less than 24 hours in the Pennsylvania primary, and it's fascinating out there to uh listen to the drive-by media a tribute.
All the Republican registration.
Now they're saying that most of it is uh due to Republicans loving Obama.
Even Robert Novak is saying this.
I'm not going to talk about this as the program unfolds today before your very eyes and ears.
I was watching, I've been watching the John Adams miniseries on HBO.
And that, folks, that's a tearjerker too.
It's stunning in all kinds of ways.
By the way, greetings and welcome.
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The John Adams series on HBO is amazing because of its accuracy and because of its uh devotion to the truth of the founding of this country.
It's a tearjerker if you watch this.
You have to get the all the episodes are great, but it really doesn't kick in and start uh hitting you in the heart in terms of patriotic reactions until a second episode and maybe for some people a third.
Uh and it it it's you know I I'm I'm struck as as I watch this, a that it appears on HBO, uh, that it somehow passed, you know, I mean, HBO's not known for this kind of stuff.
I mean, they're known for tawdry and over-the-line cultural depravity, and that's I mean, it's at their other than the movies they play, that's their original programming is known for um depravity.
I mean, it's what it is.
So the fact that this thing somehow got cleared to me uh is reason for optimism.
Same thing with the Pope's visit, uh, which concluded last night in New York.
But all of this uh when I watched this, what strikes I got a note from a friend over the weekend uh who had been one of my 15 visitors last weekend and was very distressed, uh, just reading the the newspaper every day, and was one of these people asked me how I maintained my confidence and so forth, and uh I got me to thinking about how many people, how many kids, how many young people who would watch the John Adams series on HBO would care.
And I think, you know, I've been thinking a lot, folks, about how to go after Obama.
Now uh Drudge has got some internal Hillary polling data that shows she's up by 11.
Uh this is Clinton internal polling, and they're all excited in a Clinton campaign.
They think this is a gonna be a big, big win for momentum.
Uh they carry her, um, she's she's moving on, I guess the North Carrie, Indiana tomorrow night's where she's gonna be.
Uh they seem pretty confident.
Obama's not predicting a win in Pennsylvania, so maybe their internal polling is correct.
But I have I've been I've been listening to, and pardon me for being scattershot here.
I am going to tie all this together, just stick with me.
But I have been listening to all of the the uh attempts that people are making to bring Obama down.
And and by the way, these attempts are not so much to destroy him or harm him in the Democrat primary because it's gonna happen.
So we're looking at the general election in terms of Obama, and I have run into um this weekend, I ran into some Republicans who are for Obama.
And they know full-fledged he's a liberal.
They don't care.
They like his personality.
They like, and so when you tell them about William Ayers, they don't care.
When you tell them about Jeremiah Wright, and they know they don't care.
Because to them that's the past.
And Obama's not about the past.
Obama's about the future.
Obama's not even about now.
Obama's about the future.
And so when you how does this tie into the John Adams series?
Why, you take some average Americans who went to the public school system and graduated, say in the last 20 years, and make them watch that.
How many of them would care?
Well, that's the past.
It's it's the past.
My point is this.
People who support Obama don't care about anything in the past, including American history and the founding, or they're not that much interested in it.
They don't think it's relevant.
And all of this, as I have been uh feverishly pondering over the weekend, uh dovetails or or ties into how Obama is to be attacked uh as a campaign opponent once the general election begins.
And It ain't gonna happen.
I mean, the guy is every bit as big a liar as Bill Clinton.
And we know that didn't get us anywhere by pointing out to people of Bill Clinton lie.
They didn't care.
They liked Bill Clinton's personality, which frosted a whole bunch of us.
We couldn't understand it, but they did.
They like Obama's personality.
Calling him a liar, calling him a liberal, those kind of things aren't gonna work.
Uh pointing out his liberalism, it's in the past.
Obama's not about the past.
The past doesn't matter to a whole lot of people because they're so concerned about the future.
The recent past that they know is one they don't like.
Uh some Republicans, and especially the Democrat side, the Bush administration, the war in Iraq, they don't care.
And by when you're talking about Democrats anyway, anything goes.
I mean, it doesn't matter what the past.
The past was so bad, as far as liberals are concerned, that whatever it takes to erase it, erase it, is fine with them.
So what's the only avenue open?
I mean, you we we can shout Bill Ayers, William Ayers, terrorist ties, all these, we can find out everything Obama said at that secret meeting they had in 1995 when Ayers host a little party uh to inaugurate Obama's campaign for the states.
None of it's gonna matter.
None of it's going to matter because the past doesn't matter.
This is one of the things that it just struck me over the weekend when I was watching the John Adams.
I don't I don't know what the I don't know what the click was uh in my amazingly fertile uh mind.
But there it was, right there on television, and it was accurate and it was inspiring, and it was every bit the tearjerker that much of last week was at the White House with a battle hymn of the Republic and the Pope's message and the president's men, all of his uh uh celebrations of mass over the weekend that took place, were genuine tearjerkers.
And yet when people this gets back to the note that my friend sent me, when young people especially don't care about the past, they only care about the future because the past is the past, and Obama's not the past is the future.
And when they don't know about John Adams, they don't know about the founding of the country.
I mean, they don't they might they may know it, but I mean they don't know the intricate details.
They don't know the fundamental.
Without these three acknowledgments, we wouldn't be here today as a country.
We are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Without those three concepts being in in our founding documents and enshrined as having come from our creator, we wouldn't be here as a country.
I don't know how many people are taught that anymore today.
I don't think very many at all.
And so it's the past, and they don't care about it.
And one of the reasons they don't care is because they haven't been taught.
So you've got a massive education uh failure, while at the same time a massive education project in order to inspire concern and to have people be interested in the past because the past is where you learn.
It's like Mitch Daniels.
Mitch Daniels in the Reagan administration.
Mitch Daniels, a governor of Indiana.
Snerdley, did you hear what Mitch Daniels said over the weekend?
Mitch Daniels said it's time to let Ronald Reagan go.
He delivered his remarks to a room full of fellow red staters at the Fund for American Studies Annual Conference and uh donor retreat at the museum in uh in Washington, D.C. said nostalgia's fine and Reagan's economic plan was good, but we need to look towards the future rather than staying in the past.
Now, when's the last time you ever heard a liberal Democrat say it's time to let JFK go?
It's time to let FDR go.
They never will.
And if any in their party would say it, they'd kick them out as fast as they kicked out Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman.
They would run them out of the party.
Now we've got Mitch Daniels, who conservative guy, which time to get over Reagan, time to let Reagan go.
Asinine, it's stupid.
The past, particularly country's past or our conservative movement's past is fundamentally crucial to people to understand it.
When people don't, then they will forget it.
Because it was nothing worth remembering in the first place because nobody told them about it.
So we have a very, very weak education system.
The fundamentals that built this country and hold it together are no longer taught with reverence.
If they are taught, they're probably taught with scorn more than reverence.
And so now we we have a candidate on the Democrat side about whom people do not care.
His past.
They are uninterested.
We can shout the name Bill Air's all we want.
We can shout Jeremiah Wright all we want.
We can play those sermons all we want.
We can have McCain out there as he took a little jab over the weekend at Obama.
We can have McCain out there saying that these relationships he has are very troubling, but I'm not questioning his patriotism.
Make sure you shake that question.
I see we always these relationships he has with the radicals are very troubling, but I'm not questioning his paint.
Of course not.
So the only way, folks, the only way to uh sort of take away this aura of mystique and mysticism about the future surrounding Obama is going to be putting chinks in his personality.
Like happened in the debate last Wednesday, uh Tuesday, whatever it was, in uh was it maybe the days last was Wednesday, they're running together.
Now, it didn't particularly matter in that debate because the drive-by's are going to circle the wagons and go after the media for exposing Obama's weakness.
When this guy's not got a teleprompter, when he doesn't have a speech written for him by Axelrod or somebody, he can't take a punch, he's got a glass jaw, he is he is he's got a sense of entitlement about him.
It says, I do not and will not be criticized.
I'm too important.
And there are media people that drive by who are going to shield him in that regard.
He's so important, no criticism is worth it.
It's not valid, it's all in the past.
So whoever is going to be in charge of the campaign to defeat Obama is going to have to find a way to trip him up so that he exposes the fraud that is this mystic messianic personality that he has.
That that's and I say this for two reasons.
Just to sum it up.
One, it where Obama's concerned the past is the past, and it's not relevant to him.
He is the future.
Uh his support is not based on issues.
It's not based on look at there are some Republicans who are enamored of Obama.
They like it, and nothing, and they know he's a full-fledged liberal.
They know he's a socialist.
They don't care.
They don't care.
It's something else that binds them.
It's this mystic, it's this youth, it's this personality, it's this hope for change, all that stuff is working on them.
I don't know how many, but it's it's certainly some.
And the only you're you're you're not gonna, you're not gonna if if if there are a significant number of Republicans who want to vote Obama for president for those reasons, you're not gonna turn them off to Obama by running around.
Well, you know what he's gonna do to your taxes?
You know what he's gonna do to your liberty.
They don't want to hear it.
I mean, they have a different kind of attraction to the guy.
Even though he has not been on that message ever since Ohio and Texas, since those primaries were over, he's been forced off that message.
And who knows?
It it there may be some problems for him in the primary right now.
The superdelegates, a lot of them still aren't committing, and don't want to talk about it.
Clinton's got this internal polling station's 11 points up.
We'll have to see what happens.
Operation Chaos goes into effect uh in less than 24 hours.
Soldiers ready to march to the battlefield.
Uh we'll develop this a little further.
I gotta take quick time out here, but we'll develop this a little further during the uh course of the program today as we get to all that's here, and it's a lot, so sit tight.
We'll be right back.
Yes.
I know.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
All right, let's give it an update on the uh leukemia lymphoma society radio thon from uh from last Friday, which was as you if you were here and you recall it was the it was an incredible three hours.
Last week, particularly the the last three or four days of last week were just over the top for me personally, uh in terms of the inspiration and the fun and the uh the meaningfulness of it all, and we capped it with the uh with the leukemia and lymphoma society radio thon.
And all during the program I kept marveling at how far ahead we were uh from uh last year, and and uh we were all sort of surprised and gratified about that because of the uh challenging economic circumstances this year as opposed to last, with the price of staples being up gasoline and food.
And you know, they're starting to ration food out in California in certain stores.
There's not enough of it.
They say it's a dollar is low and the fuel prices are high, and of course they tag on toward the other biofuels might be also causing a problem what with the use of uh crops that we eat now going to make uh ethanol and other sort of thing.
But even despite all that, uh we ended up with a total take of 2,519,643 with a leukemia lymphoma society radio thon last week.
What you want to know how impressive and how how uh wonderful this is.
You might think that we spend three hours doing this, and it was a three-hour radio program in Telethon.
And we kept the numbers and the websites open, the donation uh uh lines open throughout the week, and I think they're still open today, too.
But not all of the program, not the entire three hours is devoted to discussing the uh the fundraising.
I mean, we might have spent a total of 45 minutes on it out of the three hours.
And out of that 45 minutes where it was mentioned and the phone number was given and the address and the website for uh online donating, two million five hundred and nineteen thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars.
In one look, look at it this way.
In one day.
So uh thank you all profoundly once again.
Uh last year the total was two million three hundred and fifty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Uh, plus there was a um uh a standalone donation that came in from an individual last year after we finished.
Uh and that individual donated a million.
So you could actually, if you want to sum it up, the uh the total last year was 3.3.
Uh, but we don't look at it that way because it was a standalone came later.
It was it was not part of the audience totals.
The audience totals uh this year 2519643, last year 2358420.
So thank you all very much.
Once again, a successful leukemia lymphoma society curaton.
If I have time today, I had a lot of emails over the weekend from people who were reacting both to the um leukemia radiothon, the leukemia lymphoma society radiothon, and the Pope's visits uh last week.
Some of these emails are just great.
And if I have time today, I'll sprinkle them in uh as uh as phone calls.
Now I want to start going to the audio sound bites, ladies and gentlemen, is Operation Chaos and soldiers prepare to deploy in less than 24 hours.
The drive-by media is doing everything it can to suggest that these new Republican registrants in Pennsylvania are registering because they love Obama.
And the Politico has a story today about the surge in Democrat voter registration from Republicans, and their number is that 62% of the switchers.
62% of you Republicans who are switching registration to Democrat Party for the Pennsylvania primary are going to Obama.
That's uh that so this is this is the theme now, and we will see how this plays out tomorrow.
Of course, what what the the the bottom line here is that the Operation Chaos does not have a chosen candidate to win this.
Operation Chaos has as a simple single mission to keep the campaign going, to keep chaos reigning supreme, to get the Democrats continuing to conduct their war with each other on all fronts.
And by the way, Nora Efron, movie writer and so forth.
Did you ever see uh the movie You've Got Mail?
I never saw it.
She wrote it.
And she's married a Nick Pellegie, who wrote uh oh, what um good fellows.
She's got a piece today on the Huffington Post.
That is just it's unbelievable.
These are these are uh people, the enlightened among us, the uh reasonable, the tolerant, the compassionate, the caring, and the concerned, and her piece is all about who uh white women or white men hate more in Pennsylvania blacks or whites.
And that will determine who wins the Pennsylvania primary.
Who do white guys hate the most?
A black guy or a white woman.
And it is just I'll have to get the whole thing for you in detail here, but it is just stunning to know how they think.
And that by the way, it pretty much sums up that she agrees what Obama said that a bunch of elitists out in San Francisco about people in small towns.
Quick timeout, back with more after this.
Yes, I'm gonna get to the sound bites.
Folks, I have to tell I keep I meant to start the last segment with the sound bites.
When I start talking, I even find myself interesting.
I know you do, and so I was unable to be quiet because I found what I was saying so fascinating, even as I was listening to it.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna we'll get to the sound bites here in in uh in just a second.
Now Politico Today a story by uh uh didn't copy well, Johan Cummings, Gene Cummings.
Dem voter surge could cut Clinton margin.
Now here's the here are the basic uh nuts and bolts of the story.
In Pennsylvania, more than one hundred and seventy-eight thousand Republicans have switched their party ID to Democrat.
Uh well, 178,000 people have switched, 92% of that number have gone to the Democrat Party.
They are seven percent.
Republicans who registered as Democrats are seven percent of the electorate for the Tuesday primary in Pennsylvania.
They've taken a poll of uh the people that switched party registration, uh, and it was released by some polling outfit called Madonna, or maybe that's somebody that works at the polling unit.
Doesn't matter.
Obama was the preferred candidate for sixty-two percent of these Republicans who've registered as Democrats.
Clinton insiders said they are bracing for the same 6040 split among newly registered Democrats, so everybody thinks that most of the Republican registrants are going to vote for Obama, and the drive-bys are out there pumping this notion on the basis that these Republicans actually love and are enamored of Obama.
JLA TV, WJLA Capitol Sunday in Washington, Leon Harris is interviewing uh Charles Matthiason from the Politico, and they have this exchange about me and Operation Chaos.
Is this the kind of thing that Rush Limbo's going to claim credit for?
That we've been hearing about this plan of his operation chaos, I think he calls it, getting Republicans to register as Democrats just to skew the primary, and then go ahead and switch back to Republicans in the general election.
Is that is that part of what's working here?
No, not in this case.
Uh, this is the real deal.
It's it's the kind of thing you may have seen maybe 10, 15 years ago in the South, where you see an entire region sort of transitioning uh from one party to another, and and this is sort of, I think, part of a larger uh movement in the northeast part of the country.
Pennsylvania's been a little bit later than the others.
Leon Harris then asks of Mr. Matthias and well, then uh is Obama then the equivalent of the Reagan Democrats.
Well, some people say that.
They say, uh, as you know, Leon, uh they talk about the Obamacans, you know, which is sort of the generation two of the Reagan Democrats.
It's hard to say.
Clearly, Obama has an effect on these people, and and polling shows polling of these newcomers that just come into the Democratic Party shows that they're favoring Obama by about sixty to forty percent over Clinton.
We shall see.
But the notion that these Republicans switching to vote for Obama because they genuinely love Obama are the equivalent of Reagan Democrats is absurd.
And it's absurd for the very reasons I espoused in my opening monologue.
Reagan Democrats were brought to the Republican Party on the basis of issues.
They were brought to the Republican Party, the conservative movement on the basis of tax cuts, limited government, they were brought in as conservatives.
Republicans are not becoming, if they're supporting Obama, they're not becoming liberals and they're not they haven't they haven't thrown away their beliefs.
They just are enamored of the concept of change and the personality of the People are caught up.
It's like a cult.
And they have been caught up in it.
The idea that there are look at what why would any, let me put it to you bluntly, why would any Republican want to leave the Republican Party to vote for Democrat when we got our own Democrat running?
It's not about issues.
These Republicans are abandoning because if they are, if these numbers are true, and some of them are.
I've run into them, I've talked to them, and they're abandoning simply on the basis of personality.
They're caught up wanting to feel good.
Guy makes them feel good.
They don't care what he says.
They don't care what critics say about it, doesn't matter.
It's it's something that it's it's it's ephemeral.
It's hard to get your arms around.
That's why all this chatter about Obama not telling the truth, a stupid preacher and running around with all these wacko radicals and so ain't gonna stick.
It isn't gonna stick.
In fact, it may rare wear people out if it goes on uh deep into the uh into the general uh campaign.
Michael Steele, a good friend of this program, was on uh CNN, I'm sorry, Fox's election headquarters on Sunday, and the host out with Jamie Colby.
Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, and she said to him, you know, a key voting group on Tuesday in Pennsylvania could be uh the more than 200,000 people Democrats who just registered want to take part in this race.
How influential do you think they are, and will they actually show up?
I suspect if you just registered, you're gonna go to the polls.
The interesting thing about that is that about a quarter of those newly registered Democrats are former Republicans.
And I don't think it's the Rush Limbaugh kind of all Republicans go vote for for Hillary type thing.
I think, you know, these are disaffected individuals who felt that the GOP has lost its way over the last six or seven years and have now found a resonating message in either Clinton or Obama.
Uh half right there.
There's no resonating message with Hillary.
Uh but there is a resonating message with Obama, but it has nothing to do with issues.
It has everything to do with personality, charisma, and all this sort of thing.
He sounds intelligent.
You know, things like this.
He's he sounds capable.
It's just you know it's frustrating, it's maddening that so many people don't care.
They just want to feel good and they haven't felt good the last six or eight years on the basis of personality.
Uh now, one thing I'm not sure he's correct about here when he says that uh twenty-five percent of these newly registered Democrats are former Republicans.
More than that, a hundred and seventy-eight thousand have switched party registration of Pennsylvania, and ninety-two percent of them are Democrats.
So there's there's there's a if it's far greater than twenty-five percent of Republicans of the new registrants.
It's only it's like 92% if I'm reading this right.
So, uh ladies and gentlemen, those of you in umperation chaos, those of you about to be deployed to the battlefield tomorrow, you brave volunteers in Operation Chaos, as commander in chief, Operation Chaos.
I have I have to call on you to press on.
I do call on you to press on, despite all of these efforts to diminish your numbers, to diminish your impact.
Remember, we're not doing what we're doing to get credit for it.
We're doing it the more underneath the cover we can do it, and the more underneath the radar we can do it, the better.
The mission is to continue chaos in the Democrat Party, and that mission has to date been profoundly successful.
Look it.
I know as commander-in-chief, you know, we all know that sooner or later, this current phase of Operation Chaos is going to end, and Obama will triumph.
Because the superdelegates in the Democrat Party will not heed my warning of last week to bag both the I'm telling you, the way to beat Obama was on display in that debate.
He was not the there was nothing likeable about the guy.
There was nothing magical.
He was just your common ordinary everyday politician who didn't have a whole lot of experience, didn't quite know what he was talking about.
That's what it's gonna take to beat the guy.
The superdelegates, I warned them this is this, if the Republicans have any wits about them, this is what they're gonna do in general.
Your guy's dead, Hillary's dead.
You need to bag these people and come up with a third candidate.
They obviously will not listen to me.
Even though I I assure you privately some are considering because what happened last Wednesday night, even though the drive by is trying to cover it up, there are some people on the Democrat side who were really worried who thought Obama was just going to sweep a massive big time victory, and there were all kinds of vulnerabilities.
And it wasn't the questions he was asked.
It was the way he answered them.
The way he got irritated at having to answer them.
And he's clearly can be rattled.
He has not matured as a candidate and faced real, consistent, tough opposition, and he doesn't even think he should have to.
That's how he lead us to how important he thinks he is.
Remember, he's got a Messiana complex, and so does his supporters, a lot of them look at him in that way.
But the odds are that Obama will be the nominee and our current phase mission will end.
But I remind you, you brave volunteers in Operation Chaos.
This fight was not about anybody winning or losing.
It was about more chaos than less chaos.
We wanted more chaos.
The longer the chaos goes on, the more chaotic the chaos gets.
And we want chaotic chaos.
We want chaotic chaos to continue to be chaotic.
We want ongoing chaos, regardless when this ends.
When that happens, all the more reason to say that we have triumphed.
So as the outcome becomes more and more obvious, I ask you to remember these words.
Remember the Alamo.
Remember Masada.
Remember the 300.
Tomorrow we face the Battle of Pennsylvania.
We can win.
We shall win.
We must win.
A win is defined as Mrs. Clinton continuing.
We will win.
Big break.
Stand by coming right back.
All right, we're back.
One more thing to you courageous and brave volunteers in Operation Chaos about the politico.com story that I just read.
62% of supposed Operation Chaos volunteers will be voting for Obama.
Let's slow down.
How about it, you people at the political?
How about a little reality here?
We keep hearing all about the transformational nature of Barack Obama, the transformational nature of his campaign.
It's something new.
We haven't seen it.
And one of the things that it's oriented around and based on is unity, bringing us all together.
Well, the way I see this, as the commander in chief, U.S. Operation Chaos, is that Obama can't close the deal.
This is the way I see it.
This should be over.
All the money he's raised, the ineptitude of the Clinton campaign, the high negatives, this should be over.
He should have put her away long ago.
Hasn't happened.
He has been unable to defeat Hillary Clinton in a decisive way.
He has been unable to run away with this primary.
There's one out, there's a poll out there, and I have the story here that says that he is losing badly among white voters, but as a big lead among blacks, he has lost the popular vote in New York, in Massachusetts, in New Jersey, in California, Ohio, and Texas.
He will probably lose the popular vote in Pennsylvania tomorrow.
Where is this great sea change in the American political landscape then?
Where is it?
Just like Obama himself is a puff piece and a an image that bears no resemblance to his reality, so is the way the drive-by media is covering this guy.
The facts are he hadn't been able to put anybody away, and why not?
Operation Chaos.
U.S. Operation Chaos has come onto the scene.
He has not been able to put her away.
He is getting, let me repeat this to you again because it's crucial to understand what everybody thinking is just a fate of compliment now.
He has lost the popular vote in New York.
He has lost the popular vote in Massachusetts, in New Jersey, in California, in Ohio, In Texas.
They'd probably lose it in Pennsylvania tomorrow.
All of these people supposedly becoming Democrats to vote for Obama, he's still expected to lose in Pennsylvania.
See, that's the question I had when I see all this 6040 split, these Republican Operation Chaos volunteers voting Obama.
How can he lose then?
How in the world can he lose?
But he's expected to.
There is no political sea change with the Obama campaign.
And look at this.
Barack Obama's efforts to woo white voters in the Pennsylvania Democrat primary have been hurt by his comments on small town bitterness and his association with an outspoken pastor, some residents of Munsee Valley, Pennsylvania, say local people called the Senator arrogant,
unpatriotic, and unchristian after his remarks that residents of small towns, you know, blah, blah, blah, they're bitter because of job losses, and they only cling to religion and guns when Washington is ignoring them.
Now, my common sense brimming mind has a question.
If Barack Obama represents such a magical and wonderful sea change of the American political landscape, then how the hell can this be?
How can he be losing the popular vote in these big states?
How can he be losing the white voter?
How can that be?
If he's transformational.
See, he's not.
The entire Obama campaign has been a Hollywood movie.
As I so cleverly and and and uh poignantly, presciently pointed out to you last week, the whole notion of high concept in getting movies made.
We have two of them here.
One high concept, and by the way, high concept is a term Hollywood uses when they're doing fiction movies.
You don't talk about high concept if you're doing a documentary, a biography or some such thing.
High concept is associated with fiction.
High concept number one, Mrs. Clinton, the first white woman with a serious chance to be elected president of the United States.
Obama, high concept, first black American with a chance to be the first black president.
High concept.
And liberals, of course, get mushy, not when the Pope speaks or when they hear patriotic hymns.
They get mushy when minorities rise up.
Uh regardless how affirmative action you name it.
So this whole thing's been a story.
It's a fairy tale.
The Obama campaign's a fairy tale.
He's a fairy tale.
In terms of the image.
He's a real guy that poses a real danger to the country.
You point that out to his supporters, aren't they going to work?
Quick, we go to the phones.
Mark in Eureka, Illinois will start with you today.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
From uh from Eureka.
Hey, Russ, I agree with uh all your comment this morning, and uh the question I have for They make a lot of sense, don't they?
Oh, they make more than a lot of sense.
I know that's that's true.
Thank you for saying that.
Here's here's where I'm struggling, Rus.
You have said for many years, and I have always agreed with you, and I'm not talking about your audience, that you have faith in the American people to make the right decision in the end.
I do.
But it is if you look what's going on now, Rush.
I'll be honest, I'm losing that faith.
I'm losing that faith.
I mean, if you dissect it, you got McCain, you got Hillary, you got Barack, and real quick, I'll bring up close to home.
I live in the far western uh suburbs of Chicago, and we lost Danny Haster's seat to a Democrat this year.
That's like Chicago calling Republican.
And if you put all in the back of the water.
Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something, pal.
My faith in the American people remains strong.
Hastert lost that seat because the Republicans didn't do anything to defend it.
The Republicans are not giving anybody reason to vote for them.
Rush, I've American people are not stupid.
They're not, they're not cheap.
They're not going to vote for Republicans.
It's very, it's very especially conservative Republicans.
The Republican Party is giving them no reason what's in fact, prominent conservatives are running around, forget that you're a conservative.
Forget Reagan.
We got regular regulars in the past.
I mean, there's really no reason.
You know, Haster's it's not owned by the Republicans.
It's not automatic.
Nothing in politics is.
Well, I don't want to get too deep.
I've told you all that I was profoundly stirred in my soul last week with everything that happened.
And I came to realize something.
That my faith in the American people is actually a faith in this country because I do believe it's been blessed by God, and that's the source of my optimism and fa.
Nora Efron at the Huffington Post.
This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women.
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