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May 6, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 6, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Let me ask you a question, ladies and gentlemen.
Can you sense it?
Can you feel it?
The excitement building.
We are at the halfway point in today's execution of Operation Chaos in both North Carolina and Indiana.
The polls close at 7 and 7.30, respectively, tonight.
We have just finished a six-minute break.
Time for the troops to hit back to the battlefield.
If you are in Indiana and North Carolina or North Carolina, you have re-registered as a Democrat and have yet to vote.
Remember orders from headquarters.
Make sure you head out and vote.
This would be an excellent time to pull it off.
The poll workers would think you are a Democrat coming in at 2 or 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
There have been no challenges that I have heard about in Indiana despite threats to the contrary.
So it should be smooth sailing.
If you've registered, if you have, you just can't, you just can't, you just can't pull the trigger.
You just can't gut it up.
You just, at the end of the day, you can't go out there, go into the privacy of a boating booth, and vote for Hillary.
Gut it up.
Man up.
Operation Chaos.
We will know the results soon, ladies and gentlemen.
We will be hip deep in analysis tomorrow.
But as for today, there are still plenty of hours left for operatives to execute orders that have been directly issued from here.
Headquarters, Operation Chaos, Rush Limbaugh Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you with us.
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Battlefield Reports.
Rush, I went in to vote.
You would not believe the people crossing over to vote and no challenge.
This polling area is big.
It's a big Republican area.
I also know someone working the polls.
It was stated that it is heavy crossover, like never seen before.
John Brandon, Indiana, Operation Chaos Commando.
Dear Rush, we have a problem in Indiana.
I'm on the executive committee for the St. Joe County Republican Party.
I also do some work for the State Republican Party.
The problem is that there was an edict that came down from the state Republican Party saying we cannot participate in Operation Chaos.
Apparently, ladies and gentlemen, the Indiana Republican Party attempting to sabotage Operation Chaos today.
Any Republican found voting in the Democrat primary would be disallowed as a delegate to the state Republican Convention this summer.
When you vote here in Indiana in a primary, the party you vote for goes on your record, so the state Republican Party will know.
I've been working hard as a groundworker for Operation Chaos.
I have already received multiple reports this morning from successful operatives.
One friend told me the Republican precinct worker knew who I was and just looked at me and my wife and winked.
He knew we were undercover, so he didn't blow it for us.
I guess the point here, Rush, is that there are many of us that volunteer for the Republican Party in Indiana and would like to participate in Operation Chaos, but we have been barred by the state Republican Party.
Please make an appeal to the state party today on your radio program.
Please don't mention my name on air as there may be consequences from the state.
You can use a cover name of Josh from South Bend instead of my real name.
I've tried calling in to report this problem, but I've been getting busy signals for the past few days.
Well, a new wrinkle, ladies and gentlemen, the state Republican Party attempting to sabotage Operation Chaos.
Rush, I just voted Democrat in the Indiana primaries.
I haven't voted Democrat since my college days.
After graduating and watching my hard-earned wages go in taxes, I switched to Republican.
It was traumatic and difficult to ask for that Democrat ballot today.
You missed the local election, as we know, all politics is local, but it was worth the sacrifice to keep the chaos moving.
Turnout looked high at 9:45 this morning.
Lieutenant Dan reporting, Commander, I unfortunately could not follow orders for Operation Chaos due to an important local primary.
I did, however, bring it up when I was asked whether I would declare Republican or Democrat.
I said, Republican.
I can't afford to participate in Operation Chaos.
The elderly poll worker said, Is that what they're calling this today?
Showing he had no clue what was going on other than there was a lot of Republicans asking for Democrat ballots.
The younger poll worker nodded her head in agreement and laughed.
Before signing in, I had to wait until they finished counting the absentee ballot declarations for a Republican or Democrat.
In the overwhelmingly Republican Hamilton County precinct that I vote in, it was about 50-50 Republicans and Democrats on the absentees.
That sounds like Operation Chaos.
If I need to, Commander, I'll face a court-martial as I had to do what I had to do.
I await further orders, sir.
By the way, my wife also followed me into the battle and disobeyed orders, but if I were you, I'd let that one go.
She's mighty tough.
Dan in Hamilton County, Indiana.
Dear Rush, my wife and I live in Princeton, Indiana.
We are conservatives, but we participated in a war on liberalism by voting for Hillary in accordance with orders you gave on your program.
The hardest part of the operation was declaring that we wanted to vote Democrat.
Also, there was an exit poll.
We made it very clear that we would vote for McCain in the general election, even though we voted for Hillary in today's primary.
We mentioned Operation Chaos.
Dear Rush, Indiana polls calls at 8 o'clock Eastern.
Is that 6?
Okay, that's 6 o'clock local time.
You got it.
That's 7 o'clock Eastern.
I'm telling you, I'm right.
7 o'clock East because they don't go on daylight time.
Remember that, Snurdley?
Everybody wants to correct the host.
Everybody gets their jollies.
Trying to correct the host.
Ladies and gentlemen, rising food costs have put turmoil on everybody's menu.
Violence over food prices has been reported in Egypt and Haiti, and now at least two people have been killed in Somalia, where troops put down rioting over food.
The Asian Development Bank is warning that over a billion Asians may sink back into poverty because of rising food prices.
The bank, of course, says they want more money, but they're actually debating if India and China ought to foot the bill, not us for a change.
Meanwhile, the Chikoms have problems of their own.
They're clamping down on food exports even as inflation rises along with food prices.
North Koreans are still starving.
Another American mission is over there trying to find solutions to their worsening food problem.
I have the solution to all this, and that is capitalism born of freedom.
Things are getting bad here in the United States as well.
Hardest hit, apparently, are American students.
Get this.
At Harvard, the richest university in the country, they are struggling to make ends meet.
At Harvard, in the student cafeterias, they have stopped serving whole grain pasta and cherry tomatoes.
They have substituted chicken thighs for chicken breasts until outraged students had a temper tantrum.
So now the whole grains in the breasts are back and the tomatoes.
But other colleges have stopped using trays in the cafeteria, forcing students to carry their menu choices by hand to the table, honest to God here, in hopes that the students will eat less.
Others are serving smaller portions.
This may be hard to believe, but students in severe cases are resorting to bringing affordable food from home.
I told you, folks, it's getting tough out there.
Very, very tough.
And remember, all of this is happening due to liberals holding firm to their principles.
And when liberals hold firm to their principles, who gets hurt?
People.
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And back to the phones, Fairfax, Virginia.
Stephen, glad you called, sir.
Welcome.
Rush.
Stephen.
Yeah, hi.
Hey, I just, before I start, I wanted you to know that I was packing my boxes in my townhome to move to our nice new single-family home that we're able to buy because of the current housing crisis.
Why is that, sir?
The prices are cheaper?
Yeah, the prices are a lot cheaper.
Prices are cheaper, and of course, interest rates are down now.
Right.
But that's not why I called.
The point I called about was I wondered if you had talked about the Newsweek article, a long article about America maybe becoming number two.
Yeah, I haven't talked about it.
I saw it.
You know, maybe this is a mistake on my part.
But I don't really care what's in Time or Newsweek anymore in the magazines.
I mean, I just, it's so predictable.
Newsweek, when I see a story that Newsweek does that says America's slinking, slipping to number two, and of course, this is what these people want.
There's so much guilt among the American left over the prosperity and greatness of this country that they relish the fact that we slip like this.
In what areas are we slipping?
I did not read it.
I saw a reference to it, but what's their premise?
Everyone should read this because the content of the article, right, there's substantive content.
It's uplifting.
It's great news.
The world is embracing free market in certain places that haven't been, in third world countries, in high population areas.
And all the substance of the article is great.
Whenever the author comes in and begins to give his spin on it, it's that America is slipping behind.
The reason I really called, the reason I originally called about it was because I wanted to know, I remember in grade school or junior high getting one of those weekly readers.
Yes, I used to read those too.
The picture on it was a scale with Uncle Sam on the right up on the top of the scale with his raw materials and some Asian caricature on the left with all of his electronic equipment that was being imported into America and how America was falling behind.
I remember about that time also all the news about our education system was slipping to 14.
Right, and Japan was going to buy up the country.
They're buying up Rockefeller Senate Trust.
They're buying up movie houses.
Japan was going to own America.
We're all going to be wearing kimonos or whatever.
Right.
And it seems what's going on now, of course, that was during the Great Reagan administration, which we won't forget or let go of.
And now we're here at the end of the Bush administration.
I wondered if it's just, I mean, I suspect it's just the drumbeat that affects, because he mentions a poll in there about how American, you know, are we on the right track?
Is it the most alarming rate as it has been in 40 years or so?
What people say we're not.
Right.
Yeah.
And it's all in touch.
Now, the thing about this article is that it points out how America has been exporting these ideals and how it's affected people who are finally understanding, you know, third world countries that are understanding and embracing economics and using it, free market societies, and that they are doing better than America, surpassing America.
The 10 things he lists on page one, seven-page article, are tallest building, biggest mall, biggest casino, richest man.
They're things that aren't very don't mean a whole lot to me.
But his point is that here America has been working on doing this, and somehow we don't get the credit for it.
It's almost, oops, it happened.
And here we are.
Let me tackle this from a different perspective because if they want to say that we're slipping to number two because capitalism exports are causing other countries to rise and shine, and they're using places like, if you're going to talk the tallest building, you've got to talk, what?
Where's that going to?
China or somewhere?
China and India are, India now has.
Yeah, and then you've got, of course, what the Emirates in Qatar and Dubai are doing.
Those are, or not Dubai, not Qatar, Qatar too, but the United Arab Emirates in Dubai, they're springing up.
And here's the thing.
I will lay you 10 to 1.
And just accepting the premise of the article here for a second, because I haven't read it, is when I see America slipping to number two, I don't care what reason they give for it.
I know that it's probably something they're happy about.
And I'm not, and I don't think it's true.
And so I just get sick.
I'm tired of accepting these people's premises and then arguing on that basis.
But for the sake of discussion here, one of the reasons in Dubai, for example, you want to see what they're doing in Dubai.
Now, you can talk about the fact that they're Muslims and that they're Arabs and this and that, and they're anti-Semites and all that, fine and dandy.
But what they're doing, they are growing exponentially.
They are building homes, houses, airports, golf resorts.
They're doing all kinds of things.
And I'll lay you 10 to 1, they don't have to deal with environmentalist wackos to get it done.
And I'll bet you in every one of these other countries where we are exporting capitalism, we're not exporting enough liberalism to go along with it.
Because it used to be that if you wanted to hold your foreign competitors down, export liberalism, export feminism, export animal right-ism, export all these other isms and get their societies roiled and torn apart.
Export environmental wackoism.
But the Chikoms are immune from that.
You know, if an environmentalist wacko shows up over in China, they're going to get thrown in jail along with a falloon gong.
And so we allow ourselves to get handcuffed here again under these stupid liberal principles of protecting everything but humanity.
And so we might be allowing other countries to race past us in some ways.
Banking might be one of these ways.
I don't know.
This goes back and forth.
But if we ever do genuinely slip and cease to be the world's superpower, and I don't care what Newsweek writes, but there is no other superpower.
We do not have a competitor.
We're it.
And we're giving it away because we have so much damn liberal guilt over it.
And if we ever do slip from being number one superpower, it is going to be precisely not because anybody's beaten us, but because we have so hamstrung ourselves with restrictions and obstacles on progress.
Other nations are not going to do this and do that.
They're going to race past us.
And the only way to limit that from happening is to limit the scope and power of liberalism.
Pure and simple.
I know, you know, I'm going to have to start.
You know, liberalism is like communism these days.
Sometimes the label just turns people off.
When you say liberalism, this, some people who would otherwise like to be persuaded, ah, there he goes, categorizing people again.
And so in the interest of being persuasive with this argument, I'm going to have to come up with something other than just laying it all at the foot of liberalism, even though it's true.
And even though it's undeniable and unarguable, perhaps a description of liberals and liberalism rather than just calling them that, engaging in these discussions would be more persuasive.
Working on this constantly, folks, the art of persuasion.
And one of the problems with the art of persuasion is dealing with many people who are ignorant.
And I don't mean that as a cut to them.
I mean, you know, my theory that ignorance is the most expensive commodity we have.
Without it, liberalism would not have a toehold, would not have a foothold in our society.
And, of course, who's in charge of ignorance?
That's the public school system.
And who runs that?
Anyway, Stephen, I'm glad you called Jeffrey in East Indianapolis.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Hey, 1989, right-wing unemployed starving artist dittos.
It's a privilege and an honor.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
Hey, the past few weeks, you've had several callers from Indiana, and there's been several callers on Greg Garrison's show here locally in the morning.
A good man, by the way, a good man.
Yes, sir.
He'd be a good candidate for a substitute teacher.
Yeah.
But it seems like, I don't know, there's something in the water here or whatever, but you've had several people call, and there's some angst about participating in Operation Chaos.
Well, it just wasn't people in Indiana.
It's just people that can't pull the trigger and vote Hillary.
They're afraid that this is going to be so successful, Hillary's going to get the nomination.
And then they think if she gets a nomination, it's automatic that she'll win the White House.
Exactly.
I mean, what I'm afraid of is that they're the same people that voted for Evan Bay and GW on the same ticket.
You know, it's like it's in the water.
Well, look, there's no question.
You've got some moderate, spineless Republicans out there.
But I don't think that's who we're talking about.
Those are not the Operation Chaos operatives.
That's the difference.
So the people you're calling or referencing, calling here, might be the moderates who, you know, they tiptoe around and don't want to offend anybody.
I also think, look, in Indiana, we have to keep something in mind here, ladies and gentlemen.
Operatives today have referred to this.
This is a tough day.
I mean, this is very, very tough.
Republicans, the last thing any of you ever thought you would ever do was vote for Clinton.
And you've done it today.
And the beer stores are closed, so you just have to wallow in it.
Don't doubt me.
I happen to mention to Snerdley at the top of the hour break in this hour.
Did you hear that Jerry Wright stole his wife from a parishioner?
And Snerdley said, oh, I didn't hear that.
So I said, yeah, it's true.
It was in the New York Post over the weekend.
This couple in Jerry's church are having trouble, and Wright counseled them and ended up marrying the woman.
And Snerdley told Dawn, and Dawn refuses to believe it, that Jerry wouldn't do that.
Of all things that Jerry's done, Jerry Wright wouldn't do that.
Sure, Jerry could find a biblical precedent for this.
Find a biblical precedent for everything else he thinks.
New York Post exclusive, May 4th.
The Reverend Jerry Wright, Barack Obama's loose canon of a spiritual advisor, stole the wife of a parishioner after the man sought Wright's help in saving his marriage.
This, according to the former husband, who told friends, Delmer Reed, 59, confided to friends that he believed that Jerry Wright moved in on his wife while he was counseling the couple at his Chicago church in the early 80s.
That's exactly how he said it, Reed's divorce lawyer Roosevelt Thomas told the Post.
It looks like Delmer might have been right, he said, because after Delmer and Rama Reed were divorced, she got remarried to Jerry Wright.
Either that or this was the biggest coincidence in the world.
Asked about the relationship between the Reverend Jerry Wright and his ex-wife.
The friend told Delma Reed said, well, you know, the things I could tell you.
He said initially he didn't believe the rumors.
People were telling me that my extremely attractive wife was seen with the pastor.
But I didn't believe it.
I thought, so what?
Well, were you wrong in the end?
He was asked.
Yeah, I was.
Asked if Jerry Wright broke up his marriage.
Delmer Reed said, well, I told my kids I wouldn't say anything to hurt their stepfather, so I'm not saying anything.
But he said he's been hounded by the media and offered money to tell his story.
A spokesman for the Jerry Wright family flatly denied the allegation on Saturday, May 3rd.
The story has no merit whatsoever.
It's not based on facts, said George Lofton.
They had problems throughout the course of their turbulent marriage.
A couple never received marriage counseling from Reverend Wright or anyone else.
But Delma Reed, former investigator for the Illinois Secretary of State, told the New York Post that he and his ex-wife went to Jerry Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for counseling when their marriage hit the skids over his demanding work schedule.
I spoke with Reverend Wright four times over a few months.
Her father asked me to go counseling.
We thought we'd be together forever, so I decided to try to work this out.
Delma Reed was asked if he's forgiven the pastor for stealing his wife.
Delma Reed said, I let it go, because I don't want my kids to hear anything negative about their stepfather.
Don't doubt me.
Midland, North Carolina, this is Mary, and you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I like you're on hold, by the way.
Bought those temporary tattoo removal things.
You're insane.
Why do you want anyone to vote for Democrats today?
Wait, wait, just a second here, Mary.
You like to be on hold.
Yeah, I like to be on hold.
Your hold was actually very good.
I love the tattoo thing.
You get to hear the parody songs tattoo removed.
Oh, I thought you were getting a tattoo removed while you were on hold, and that's why you liked it.
No.
Misunderstood.
Not my style, but that's okay.
Maybe in a future date.
But anyway, I'm insane.
Let's go back to me being insane.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, yeah, the idea of I'm an independent, so for me to go in there to make a choice is always depending upon what it is the person is that I want to be able to vote for that is going to do the best thing for our area, for our city, for our state, for our country.
And to think that I would have to vote for or to even cross the lines and to vote for someone like Obama or Hillary is distasteful.
Even if you want to create chaos, the bottom line is, is the only thing you're doing is you're also creating chaos in the local area because we have things that have to be done locally that's much more important than what we've done nationally.
Much more important than national.
Do them yourself then.
In a local area, you can do them yourself.
But you can't for the state.
I mean, we can't.
What is this insane?
Now, that's quite a...
You are nuts.
That's quite a lot of people.
I'm not urging anybody to vote for Obama.
No, you're urging them to vote for Clinton, which is really nuts.
I mean, it makes me gag to think somebody would want to vote for her today.
And possibly.
I couldn't do it.
They asked me to do it.
Pardon me?
You are insolent.
Oh, of course I am, and I hope so.
But they asked me what party I wanted to vote for.
And, you know, it's like a cold shot runs through you.
And You're insubordinate.
You're darn right I am.
Yet I didn't vote for McCain either.
It wasn't that, I couldn't do that either.
Did you vote?
Oh, of course I voted.
You didn't vote for McCain?
Nope.
What party did you vote for?
Republican.
So what did you do?
Huckabee?
No.
No.
But I did make sure that the minority.
Your vote really counted, right?
Huh?
It did.
My vote.
Well, it did.
This is a wasted vote.
It did.
Listen, let me tell you something.
McCain in Carolina.
You tell me I'm insane and you vote for some Republican nobody's ever heard of in a primary where our nominee is already chosen?
Who cares?
That part of it isn't important.
What's important to us is what's going to happen, if we're going to question somebody's sanity here, we need to redirect attention to you.
Well, I think that's what I'm saying.
Why couldn't you have gutted it up?
You just threw away your vote.
No, I did not.
Anybody that, no, no, no, because I was able to at least vote for my governor, for my lieutenant governor.
People that are going to, if you're going to vote for somebody that you don't believe in, that's insane.
If you're going to vote for somebody who doesn't believe that.
Because you can turn around in time for the general vote for these people.
No, you're wrong.
You can't do that.
Not necessarily.
No, and I think that McCain fire on you in a big way.
It's going to backfire on you.
That's right.
I don't know what I'm talking about.
I never know what I'm talking about.
Well, McCain himself, right now, what you're doing is the only good thing you're doing is you're deflecting the problems with McCain.
Because if you create chaos between Clinton and Obama, you're deflecting the problems that there are with McCain with the voters that are Republican voters or that are conservative voters, even independents.
Deflecting the problems.
You're losing me.
What do you mean by deflecting the problems of McCain?
McCain has a lot of problems with people who are.
Yeah, how am I deflecting them?
By having all of the attention placed with Obama and Clinton.
No, I'm saving McCain by deflecting attention from him.
Jeez.
I understand that.
This is a brilliant maneuver.
Operation Chaos is brilliant on so many levels.
I understand.
And you are insubordinate.
You could have gone out and been a brilliant operative in commando, and you call here and tell me that you couldn't gut it up and do it.
And then tell me I'm insane because you couldn't do something.
I would never vote for those two.
Oh, I'd cut off my hands.
You're not voting for those two.
You are voting for chaos.
But I had fun talking to you, Mary.
Thanks ever so much.
Eddie in Edgewood, Maryland, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yay, Rush.
How the heck are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Well, let me tell you something.
Last Friday afternoon, I was at an undisclosed location on the eastern shore of Maryland.
We were sitting out on the back deck enjoying an adult beverage, and I saw a bespectacled man with a woman walking by, and I looked at my bunny and I said, Is that Don Rumsfeld?
And a guy from the other table looked over at me and said, I think it is.
Yeah, he has a place there.
Yeah, so does our VP.
Right.
They're right next door to each other, practically.
Absolutely.
So I said, well, I'm going to find out.
Heavily fortified, by the way, folks.
No security breach here.
Well, there was no.
He had no security with him at all.
And I was like, I'm going to find out because I had one or two adult beverages, and it was late in the evening.
You say he was with his wife?
I hope so.
No.
But I walked up to him and I said, are you, excuse me, sir?
Are you Mr. Rumsfeld?
He said, yes, I am.
And he looked at my Operation Chaos t-shirt.
And I've never heard the man giggle before, but he giggled.
And he pointed at it and he said, nice shirt.
And I shook his hand and I said, nice to meet you, sir.
I appreciate it.
I'm a 12-year military veteran.
And I said, I appreciate everything you've done for us and for the country and everything else.
And I said, have a nice day, sir.
And I just left them be at what it was.
But wasn't he a gracious man, though?
He's the nicest man.
And I've never heard him giggle.
But boy, he got a kick out of it.
He giggled when he saw your Operation Chaos t-shirt.
I had it on.
There are closets.
I know.
See, they're closet operatives, even in states where the theater of battle is not even taking place.
Yeah, Maryland, we're hopeless here, but I do what I can.
Well, I appreciate it.
That's a great field report.
Thank you so much.
I'm glad you got to meet Secretary Rumsfeld because.
It just made my whole, it made my whole night.
I can imagine.
He really is.
I mean, a great public servant.
He's given so much of his life to this country to be badgered and treated the way he was.
Exactly.
It's almost inhumane, but he's still a great man.
I'm really thrilled that you had a chance to meet him.
I got to meet him a couple times, and I considered it a thrill, too.
And I'm honored that he chuckled at the Operation Chaos t-shirt knowingly.
Yeah, he didn't say go or not go, but he just said, nice shirt.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity.
Taking the fight to the political enemy via Operation Chaos.
My friends, I want you to know that I had easily 30 soundbites today in the roster.
We have played four or five.
Most of the soundbites were of drive-by media types discussing Operation Chaos.
I did not share them with you today because yesterday was filled with that.
And as you know, I hate making this show about me.
Unfortunately, Operation Chaos is about me, and the drive-bys are talking about me.
It's about the volunteers, but the drive-by media analysts are not talking about the volunteers.
They're talking about me.
Let me give you one example here.
This is from MSNBC's Race for the White House.
David Stretch Gregory and Time magazine's Jay Carney have this exchange about Operation Chaos.
There's been a lot of talk about the so-called Operation Chaos.
Rush Limbaugh calling on Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in order to prolong the Democratic fight.
Many Democrats have scoffed at the idea, but a new poll may give credence to the chaos theory in Indiana.
The latest Suffolk University poll has Hillary Clinton beating Barack Obama 49 to 43.
It also has 38% of voters saying they will vote for John McCain in the fall if their candidate doesn't win the Democratic nomination.
Do Indiana Republican voters hold the key on primary day, Jay?
It's not just about moderate Republicans who may want to vote for Obama or Clinton.
Could they be meddling here?
Well, I think based on what we've seen, there is some meddling going on.
The risk here is that Republicans who are trying to meddle, Rush Limbaugh included, ought to be careful what they wish for.
Hillary Clinton could very well be a much more powerful candidate in the fall than Barack Obama.
That was David Stretch Gregory and Jay Carney of Time Magazine speculating on the effects of Operation Chaos.
Look at just loads and loads of soundbites like this today.
And that's just echoing Hillary's line because Hillary is the one who also asked about Operation Chaos way back when, not by name, it was on I Think Today Show or something.
He said, be careful what you wish for, Rush.
She threatened me.
She threatened me on national TV.
But I didn't want to load you up today with these soundbites because it's been that way every time.
The hardball discussion last night was just over the top.
But, Well, okay, Snerdley's demanding to hear.
Mike, stick with me on this.
Let me find the rosters all out of order.
I don't think I'm going to be able to.
Yeah, and I got five, but I need the sound.
I need the roster here in front of me because it may not just be five.
No, it's grab number six.
Amber six, because Matthews, Chris Matthews introduced the piece.
They did a whole segment on Operation Chaos.
And Matthews placed tape of me from yesterday's program talking about the objective of Operation Chaos.
He gets it all wrong in setting it up.
And he goes to Mike Barnacle.
Mike Barnacle, let me have your thoughts on a Rush Limbaugh.
How many ditto heads does it take to change a primary?
He's a fabulous entertainer, and he's entertaining himself.
Chris, I was in your home state for more than a week, talked to a lot of people, never encountered a single person who was switching registration in order to participate in Operation Chaos.
So I imagine there's a residual effect to Rush because he's a powerful guy, but I think it's minimal.
They're just in denial.
They're just in denial.
Now, here is Cynthia Tucker was on this show, too, but we don't.
Let's go to cut number nine.
Mike Barnacle again.
And Matthews said, Mike, if we get more votes for Hillary Clinton than are honestly cast for her.
In other words, more than reflects her popularity.
Doesn't Rush succeed, even if he only adds a little bit to this mess?
You know what Rush is missing here?
As I said earlier, he's a great entertainer, and he's a great American entertainer.
And he preaches largely three hours a day to the American heartland.
And they listen to him and they respond.
And he's missing a truly great American story, I would submit, and it is this.
A black guy from Chicago running for president of the United States who two years ago would have difficulty getting a cab on a rainy Friday afternoon in Midtown Manhattan is this close to securing the nomination of one of our two political parties.
That's a huge story that Rush, because he's bound to ideology, has missed, and he's not the only one who's missed it.
We have an African-American with a real chance to be president.
We have a POW with a real good chance to be president.
It's all to our benefit, this diversity.
We're pushing back on Rush Limbaugh.
We're pushing back on Rush Limbaugh.
There we go.
Diversity.
Doesn't matter what Obama stands for.
He is black.
And of course, to set it up, I'm missing that.
We're missing that.
Who was it that has been defending Obama against Democrat attacks on his race from the get-go?
Who is it?
Mr. Barnacle, if you guys would take the time to listen when the LA Times and other people were doing stories on is Obama authentic?
Is Obama black enough?
It was I, El Rushbo, who decried that and asked that the Democrats and the media and the liberals stop looking at this man on the basis only of the color of his skin.
And how dark was he and what was his parentage?
It is I, early on, who stood up for Barack Obama and advised him on how to deal with this.
But now the bloom's off the rose and we have learned that Obama, regardless of skin color, is just your average, ordinary, run-of-the-mill liberal politician who's doing his best to camouflage and mask what he believes and what his policies are.
A few hours remain in Operation Chaos.
Operatives who have not yet followed orders are hereby instructed to get in gear.
So Mike Barnacle says on Hardball last night that I have missed that a nobody might become president.
How did I miss that a nobody might become president?
See you tomorrow, folks.
Hip deep in analysis.
Look forward to it.
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