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July 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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The disciples in the drive-by media are panting breathlessly with coughs thrown in, awaiting the address, the sermon from the Messiah at the Victory Tower in Berlin, ladies and gentlemen.
This, by the way, is a uh a uh a site that uh was chosen by Adolf Hitler uh because it had good aesthetic value for him to address.
People.
Uh this is uh the victory victory tower is it's a phallic symbol out there, and it's constructed there, and it's uh it's it's Hitler did move it, moved it to this location in order for it to provide a good backdrop for No, I'm not I'm not making no analogies here.
Just I'm just I'm giving you a little history about the place.
Now the crowd, crowd looks pretty big, but uh, you know, Obama's a little concerned here because when he flew into Berlin, he said, I didn't know the space was that big.
We gotta get a lot of people in there to fill it, and they haven't filled it, uh at least from the camera angle that uh that that I have.
They're admitting it's a political speech now, and as such, the U.S. State Department has sent a directive to oh, by the way, do you folks, do you know what Obama did before he left Israel?
He stopped in Bethlehem.
I told I was told this.
He stopped in Bethlehem uh to visit the site where he was born.
He didn't allow any media in there because he didn't want to disturb the uh animals.
And it was from there that he flew into Berlin, and he saw that this big space he's gotta fill with all these people.
U.S. State Department has um has sent out a directive to uh all the employees in the embassy that they're not allowed to go to this because it is a political speech.
And so they're not it's a campaign rally, is uh is is what it is, and that's why they're they're not uh allowed to go.
The drive-by's are breathlessly anticipating this.
It comes up in a little over an hour, and no, we are not going to jip it.
We uh what you want you want to gip it?
You want live translation.
You want me to jip this?
We might jip a little bit of.
I don't know how long it's gonna be.
I don't want to dip the whole thing.
People don't turn into this show to hear Obama snerdily, they turn into hear me.
And they're starting to tune in to hear the official Obama criticizer more and more, too.
But they uh certainly don't uh tune in to uh hear uh here Obama.
Anyway, we'll have more comments on this.
There's a very there's a there's an NBC poll out that's not good for Obama.
He's getting no bump out of this trip.
That's an NBC poll.
He's losing in a lot of ways to John McCain in terms of who do you trust more to deal with the problems?
Who's closer to your values?
McCain wins big in both these.
Uh, and the surprises at NBC they did this on the nightly news last night with Chuck Todd, Chuck T, as he's known.
Uh everybody's stunned that NBC put this uh bit of news out.
There's that, and uh, we've got some samples of uh speeches that have been made in Berlin by JFK and Ronaldus Magnus.
Now, both those speeches were at the Brandenburg Gate.
Uh this is at the Phallock Victory Tower, Hitler's phallic victory tower in uh another part of the city.
But they're not gonna when you hear the you're gonna hear both JFK bites, especially.
Obama nor any Democrat could give the speech that JFK gave.
Here, let's just play the sound bites.
Let's start with two, three, and four, and here is oh, I keep forgetting I want to mention this.
I was busy working on show prep last night, as I always am, doing it for you.
Doing it for me, too.
And I got an email note from a friend with a website.
He said, You gotta click on this.
It's live from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
So I clicked on it and I got it was live streaming.
Excellent picture quality of Obama showing up and then going to the Western Wall and uh and and placing his prayer in the crevices, something I, ladies and gentlemen, have done.
Did this back in 1993, then walking out.
There were campaign signs there.
Now I don't know who put them up, but this this is a sacred holy site, and this place last night was turned into a bit of a campaign.
And uh the the drive-bys are not reporting this, but the was not universally loved at this place at this site last night.
You have heard that one uh one grab number five.
I keep confusing the broadcast engineer.
This is I heard this last night is an unidentified protester at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
It was early the uh in the morning, pre-dawn in Israel, about 5.08 when Obama got there.
He left at 5.20.
And this is one of the things that happened.
We have to go.
Were you able to hear that?
Protesters shouting, Jerusalem is not for sale, Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale, Jerusalem is our land, Jerusalem is our land.
CBS also has a story about poor old Barry, he just can't get past the fact that his middle name's Hussein, and it makes people over here in Israel a little uncomfortable.
And then they hold up a copy of Harass.
Anyway, Sheila McVicker is the infobabe that uh did that story, but there was a lot more ruckus than just this one guy, this is the point.
Uh, and they got out of there uh, you know, pretty quickly.
There was some resentment here that the uh the whole event had been turned into a uh campaign appearance, which is exactly what it looked like, by the way.
Uh and it was crowded, it was a lot of people there, even at 5.08, 520 in the morning Israeli time.
It just it just it just I don't know, folks.
May I I try I tried to take my bias about the whole m meaning of this trip out as I'm watching this, because I've been there, I have been to this site, and I know the only thing you hear there are uh are prayers.
It's it's outdoors.
You you hear neighborhood sounds and so forth.
But I mean you it it just it's just seemed not seemly something with a bunch of SUVs pulling up in there, Obama getting out, walking in, being escorted by uh Israeli officials being told what to do, he's following his lead, and then leaves and uh people were shaking his hand, too.
Don't misunderstand, but there was a lot more ruckus than the uh than the drive-bys are reporting.
Here's Ronaldus Magnus on June twelfth, nineteen eighty-seven at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin.
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate.
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate.
Mr. Gorbachev.
Mr. Gorbachev teared down this war.
Ronaldus Magnus, June 12th.
1987, West Berlin, the wall shortly thereafter, came down.
Uh Ronaldus Magnus, of course, an elected president.
Speaking not as a candidate and not at a campaign rally.
Let's go back now to 1963, June the 26th.
President John F. Kennedy.
There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future.
Let them come to Berlin.
And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere, we can work with the communists.
Let them come to Berlin.
And there are even a few who say that it's true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress.
La Siena, Berlin in common Let them come to be right Now there's President Kennedy.
There's not a Democrat alive who would make that speech today anywhere.
Uh Democrats today are appeasers.
Did you hear any appeasement here?
There are some who say that we should work with the communists.
Let them come to Berlin.
But Obama, there are some who say we should work with Iran.
There are some who say we should work with Castro.
There are some who say we should work with Chavez.
Barack Obama, for all the hopes that you uh disciples have invested in him, the most merciful cannot make a speech like either Ronaldus Magnus or JFK.
Here's another bite from uh President Kennedy's speech, June 26, 1963, Brandenburg Gate.
We look and look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe.
When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.
All free men, wherever they may live.
Citizens of Berlin.
And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Violina.
And the crowd went nuts with that.
Now, a couple things here.
Not only could Obama not make this speech, or nor could any other Democrat today, because they are appeasers, plus they don't see that much wrong with communism.
If the truth be told, but he couldn't make this speech either because Obama believes it was a mistake to free 25 million Iraqis from tyranny because it angered our enemies.
We are so afraid of angering our enemies today.
Obama wouldn't make a speech like this, not aimed at Iran.
George W. Bush will, but there is not a Democrat who will do it.
Now the Germans have a great sense of humor.
Now, one of the things that I don't think too many people know, a Berliner in Berlin is a donut.
And so the Germans, even after Kennedy left, it's a kind of a donut.
Uh, and they had a lot of fun with Kennedy.
They respected what he said, but they're still that they're a bunch of joksters.
Now I've mentioned the fact that the victory tower is Hitler's phallic symbol or a phallic symbol.
They're not there now, but a couple of a couple still shots that I have seen during show prep today of two giant Obama balloons very close to the top of the victory tower.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes, proving, ladies and gentlemen, that the Reverend Jackson still has not succeeded in removing the nuts of the Messiah.
I'm just thinking about those audio sound bites of Ronaldus Magnus and JFK at the Brandenburg Gate, 1963, John F. Kennedy tells the communists their days are numbered.
1987, 1988, 1989, the communist days are over.
A Democrat president and a Republican president on the same path, bringing about the same objective.
Well, JFK laying it out, Reagan fulfilling it.
Within that time, there were a number of Republican and Democrat presidents who didn't think it would be possible.
Kennedy did, and Reagan pulled it off.
And you people talk about unity and compromise.
There wasn't any compromise.
There was a single-minded purpose and an objective that was morally correct.
And that was to end the tyranny of communism in Europe.
And JFK recognized it's it's striking to listen to those bites today and realize that there isn't a Democrat, or maybe Joe Lieberman.
There isn't a Democrat around who would make a speech like that.
Who would dare speak of our current enemy or enemies in that regard for fear of making them mad?
Just adjust striking to see how changed the Democrat Party, even though we know it.
It's just it's it's a it's a it's amazing to see in um you know 45 short years, just how drastic.
The Democrat Party has moved left.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, other news out there, and uh, we don't we uh we never get sidetracked here by single issues.
Lots of other news is being made.
We'll be talking about Obama quite a bit on the program today, still uh still deciding editorially whether to jip all or a well, I can tell we're not gonna jip the whole thing.
We might gip a portion of the uh Lord Messiah Barack Obama's speech at the victory column today in Berlin.
We're not gonna do the whole thing.
There was a big protest.
It wasn't that big, it's sort of meager, actually.
It was a meager protest outside the offices of the Fox News channel recently.
Uh the two groups showed up complaining of racism on the air at the Fox News Channel.
He had a rapper show up.
Uh rapper's name is N-A-N-A-S.
I don't know how you pronounce his name, but he showed up.
Uh MoveOn.org was there, color of change.org was there.
Stop its uh asking Fox to stop its racist smears against the Obamas and other black Americans.
You know, I'm watching this, I saw a video tape of a little bit of it, and I've got some still shots here, and I'm just waiting for this group to go over at Jesse Jackson's office and start protesting him for racism.
I mean, Jesse Jackson used the N-word, not about Obama, but about these people.
I don't think that's ever happened on the Fox News channel.
Minimum wage, ladies and gentlemen, set to rise today, 70 cents.
However, listen to this.
The Associated Press.
Christopher Rugaber.
Minimum wage set to rise 70 cents, but higher costs across the board eat into the rays.
About two million Americans get a raise today as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents.
The bad news?
See, there always has to be bad news.
The bad news is, if you ask me, that it's happening.
Well, we'll hear about the unemployment, but we'll hear it in the context of Bush's economy.
The bad news, higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the costs of the wage hike to consumers.
Wrong.
They might do that, but it'll also have to fire some people.
The increase is from 585 an hour to 655 an hour.
It's the second of three annual increases required by a 2007 law.
And of course, the AP had to go out and find a suffering American to show that the minimum wage is irrelevant even after everybody gave all kinds of credit to the Democrats for passing it and gave all kinds of credit to it theoretically, institutionally when it was being debated.
Workers like Walter Jasper, who earns minimum wage at a car wash in Nashville, are happy to take the 70 cents an hour minimum wage.
But workers like Walter Jasper will struggle with the higher gas and food prices hammering Americans.
Walter Jasper, who with his fiancée supports a family of seven.
*crash*
Walter Jasper, who with his fiancee supports a family of Walter Jasper, who with his fiancee supports a family of seven, and who earns the minimum wage plus commissions when customers order premium car washes.
Says it'll help a little.
The bus fare he pays every day to get to work already went up to four dollars and eighty cents this spring from four dollars.
I'd like to be on a job where I could at least get a car, said Walter Jasper, who with his fiance support a family of seven.
This uh reminds me, I didn't mention this when this happened, folks, and many of you are gonna think that this is harsh and callous.
There was an AP story out of Ohio about a poor immigrant family that no longer, because of the status of the U.S. economy, could no longer afford to eat meat.
Did you see that story?
They could not, it was a mother and daughter.
You couldn't tell which was which in the picture.
Honest to God, folks, you could not tell which was which.
This tag team had to weigh 800 pounds.
That was not mentioned anywhere in the story, but the picture of it was it was you you couldn't miss this.
So yet AP dutifully reporting the squalid Conditions, the poverty level conditions, these poor Ohioans have to work, and the only place that they can possibly get a job is in is within walking distance.
I forget where the company is, but the company's getting ready to move.
And it was just one of the biggest sob stories I have ever read.
And it was all great detail here.
And I read this, my mouth is hanging open.
I'm looking at the accompanying pictures.
My mouth is hanging.
I cannot believe I'm reading this.
I'm just going, damn.
How does this story even get written?
At least if somebody in AP was thinking, don't publish these pictures.
My friends, I kid you not.
You're looking at combined tonnage here of 800 pounds of his mother and daughter.
In the story about how they couldn't afford meat.
They can afford something.
And I I think, folks, a lot of it is probably delivered.
All right, we are back, ladies and gentlemen.
El Rushmo here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, as we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I want to thank Steve Gilbert of the Sweetness and Light blog, Sweetness and Light.com.
It was NPR that did the story on the mother and daughter in Ohio.
Uh it was on all things considered, who can't afford meat.
The uh the uh headline here is uh uh for some meat is out of reach.
A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez's family was built on cars.
Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years.
Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.
Things have cons have changed considerably for this Ohio family.
Nunz's van.
Van broke down last fall.
Now her 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fastoria, which is 40 miles south of Toledo.
Now, that's all you need to know.
Now, for those of you watching on a ditto cam, I'm going to attempt to zoom in so that you can see the picture of the subjects of this sob story.
And uh keep in mind now, for some meat is out of reach.
This is a it's a it's a terribly sad story.
Okay, let's see one who wants this at the same time.
All right.
There we go.
Do you see that?
Let me straighten it out here.
I'm giving the people watching on the ditto cam a chance to uh see this.
Uh that's the lovely mother and daughter family, no longer able to afford uh meat.
In uh well, you can't tell which one's the mother and which ones.
That's what I was saying.
You uh you you just you just can't.
Now, I don't know, when I saw this, how do you take this?
How how in the world do you take this seriously?
Now I realize this is a tease for those of you that that aren't able to see the program on the Ditto Cam, but that means you should sign up.
You should become a subscriber.
You can watch the program here every day at uh www.rushlimbaugh.com.
Yeah.
Here, yeah, okay.
People want to say it one more time.
All right, I'll throw it up there one more time.
Here we go.
Is that focused?
I can't.
Is it focused?
Okay, good.
Uh the Nunez family, after the van uh broke down.
You see what I mean about they're they're getting something to eat, and it it's somebody somebody has to be delivering it to them.
All right.
Uh Starks, uh, I'm sorry, Storesville, is that right?
Stallsville, Ohio.
This is Paul.
I'm glad you uh called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Ross, good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to uh respectfully remind you and gently correct you.
A few minutes ago you said that um you talked about the protesters and how they should go after Jesse Jackson for using the N-word.
Yes.
Um and you said you you postulated that that word had never been heard on Fox.
I'd like to remind you gently that that word was uttered on Fox that the late Tony Snow had uh the venerable Senator Robert Bird Democrat from Virginia.
Oh my god, you're right.
You are absolutely right.
We have even played that sound bite on this program.
I had said that it slipped my fertile mind.
So I stand corrected.
The N-word has been uttered on Fox uh by uh the estimable West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd.
Can you imagine if you had done that, or if McCain had done that, or if someone uh on the right had done that.
Yeah, of course.
Well, look at the uh Reverend Jackson did it, and they decided to protect him at Fox.
It was somehow, you know, it it leaked out.
Somebody, I mean, Fox did not broadcast it until it leaked out.
Now, some people think that Fox leaked it, but I happen to know.
That's not the case.
More on the minimum wage, ladies and gentlemen.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans next week to slash the pay of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum, not the state minimum wage, the federal minimum wage of six dollars fifty-five cents an hour in order to help ease the state's budget crisis.
This is according to a draft executive order obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.
There's a huge budget fight out there in California, and this is the development.
More than 200,000 California state workers to get the minimum wage to ease the budget crisis.
This the state minimum wage eight bucks.
They're not going to get that.
They're going to get the federal minimum wage of six dollars and fifty-five cents.
Their proposed pay cut for hourly employees would take their wages well below the state minimum wage of eight dollars an hour.
The uh governor's plan could face an immediate challenge from Democrat Strait controller John Chang, uh, who will continue to pay state workers their full salaries no matter what uh Arnold says, even in the face of his executive order.
Cutting workers' salaries will do nothing meaningful to improve our cash position.
The executive order is nothing more than a poorly devised strategy to put pressure on the legislature to enact a uh a budget.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, let me let me comment on this.
Because ordinarily, I mean, what what is the natural gut check human reaction to this?
It's horrible.
How can you do it?
Why, that's a terrible to rebound just to move them back to the minimum wage horrible.
No contact.
How can he just with the stroke of a pen, do it's rotten, that's bad.
But wait a minute.
They do have a big budget crisis out there.
And wasn't it just a couple weeks ago here that we were lamenting the tricks played by states and local communities when their budgets get cut?
What do they tell us?
They're gonna have to cut essential services.
They might have to fire cops, they might have to fire firemen, they might have to get rid of emergency medical services workers.
And this is how they always create the panic amongst the population already overtaxed to the hilt.
You mean you're gonna take away my firemen and my am I have a police force and they, you know, gang up against whoever it is that's cutting budgets.
Well, Arnold's not doing that.
Arnold's cutting the bureaucracy.
Fine.
They can't cut essential services anymore.
They would they would anger half the population, which is illegal.
Just kidding, it's not quite that high.
Just Don, uncover your eyes.
It's gonna be one of these days.
I was up again late last night.
I should have warned you at the outset of today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
I was up late last night, and so I'm a little giddy here.
But look at our next story, I love this.
Yes, yes, we're gonna get to Obama.
We've been doing Obama all week.
There's other news out there.
We're gonna be talking about it once stupid speech starts.
We did some Obama in the be patient.
I still, you know, I sit here, we got our 20th anniversary coming up a week from tomorrow, and still there are people who try to tell me how to do this.
I don't mean you people in the audience.
I'm talking about the trusted and loyal staff.
Well, I know them too, but I'm a but this it it boggles the mind.
You know, if if I weren't as secure as I am, I'd be basket case.
Anyway, this next story, I absolutely love this is from the BBC.
How many of you people?
You know who you are.
Go out there and eat soy stuff.
Soy products, soy milk, soy tofu, soy, whatever it is.
And you do this for one reason.
Why do you eat soy?
Why does anybody who eats soy, I mean, by Okay, high-end protein health reasons, right?
To avoid meat.
So okay, so pie in protein you did to avoid meat.
But it's generally people that engage in the oral consumption of soy how you consume it, right?
Through the mouth.
All right.
You people who do that generally think they're on health kick.
They're doing it for health reasons.
Or perhaps uh milit militant vegetarian reasons.
Well, I have a story here from the BBC that says a regular diet of even modest amounts of food containing soy may have sperm concentrations.
Or have, may reduce them in half by half.
In other words, reduce the number of sperm cells by half.
A study published for some of you, I'm sure, is great news.
I mean, you can forget about birth control pills, even condoms.
The risk has been reduced by half.
But for others, this is not going to be good news.
The uh men were divided into four groups depending on how much soy they ate, and when the sperm concentration of men eating the most soy was compared with those eating the least, there was a significant difference in the sperm count.
Dr. Alan Pacey, a senior lecturer in andrology from the University of Sheffield, said that if soy genuinely had a detrimental effect on sperm production, fertility might well be affected in those regions, and there was no evidence that this was the case.
Many men are obviously worried about whether their lifestyle or diet could affect their fertility by lowering their sperm count.
Now, I have a different way.
Ladies and gentlemen, of looking at this.
As you know, we have a new cultural phenomenon in our country.
The chicken of our culture and society has resulted in a group of people that I have dubbed here the new castrati.
And you know the new Castrati for Smith or Limbaugh.
You just don't understand how tough that's the new Castrati.
And they're all over the place.
and Are there more issues playing into this self-imposed?
I mean, look, we we know that there's a there's a self-imposed deni demise of the liberal population by virtue of abortion.
They are aborting themselves.
They were aborting themselves into a minority status uh in a couple three generations, if that long.
And probably most liberals are the ones that consume most of the soy.
So they are assaulting themselves on both fronts, inside and outside the womb.
I would say that if this is true, uh then the soy-based members of the new castrati are engaged here in another self-imposed act leading to their ultimate demise.
The news is not good for the Messiah, ladies and gentlemen.
He's getting no bump whatsoever out of his uh his uh college campus tour, little summer camp trip, none whatsoever, and this has the drive-bys very, very much concerned.
Joe Klein at uh his blog at Time Magazine, Obama trip overload.
Lots of speculation on the web and in whispering circles.
Shh, that means the drive by is whispering to themselves, saying, what are we doing wrong?
About why Obama's foreign trip, a slam dunk success substantively, and in photo op terms, hasn't resulted in a polling bump.
The emerging conventional wisdom seems to be that the trip is a bit too grand, too presumptuous.
Voters are very wary of that.
And presumption, of course, always comes with the subterranean tinge of racism.
So the drive by saying America's the racists.
And they didn't think this what Klein is saying here is the reason there's no bump is because the Americans are watching this, and they say, who is this upper black guy think he is?
He's not president yet.
Who does he think he that's that's what they think?
That's what we are gonna have to we're gonna have to listen to this kind of crap even after the election's over.
This is it because they're doing their best.
Klein and his buddies are doing their best to get this guy over 60% in the polls, and he can't get beyond 47.
They're doing everything they can, and he can't get a bump.
He didn't get a bump when he won the nomination, didn't get a bump out of this, or hasn't yet.
And they're working hard.
Remember, this this trip is about them.
This trip is about them, the drive-by's making history.
And they're pushing for everything they got.
So of course, when they fail, you gotta turn around and blame it on the American people.
Well, yeah.
Presumption, of course, always comes with the subterranean tinge of racism.
See, American people think Barack is too presumptuous here by acting presidential when he's not even the president yet.
In fact, when he's not even the official Democrat Party nominee yet, if you want to know the truth.
No, they wouldn't think that if he was.
That's that's what that's what the drive by said.
Drivers saying, no, they wouldn't think that if he's white.
They're thinking that well, the drive-by's look at you can understand how they look at their people this country, a bunch of rubes, a bunch of unsophisticated rubes, Obama the first black guy.
That's that they're chalking this up to.
They will not chalk it up to their failure.
They will not chalk it up to the fact that people are sick and tired of seeing this.
That people are sick and tired of seeing this kind of out-of-balance, out of kilter reporting, not even reporting cheerleading.
If we want to watch cheerleading, we'll watch a competition on ESPN or wait for college football to start.
But people don't watch cheerleading or the drive-by media in the in the in a presidential campaign.
Joe Klein says, Well, wait a minute.
I don't buy that.
I have another theory.
People may be thinking, what on earth is Obama doing over there when we have so many problems back home?
Why isn't he talking about the economy?
Bingo, my friends, this was my point too.
When this trip was first announced when he first left on the trip, this is when I said, McCain, go to the oil well.
Go out to a Derrick, go out to a gas pump, do something because it's gasoline, gasoline, gasoline, it's jobs, jobs, jobs, the economy, the economy, economy, energy, energy, energy, and nobody cares about Iraq anymore.
It's not that big an election issue.
What's he doing over there?
And uh Joe Klein swerfing in to an EIB.
Prescient prediction.
No doubt the Obama staff figure they needed this week abroad to establish the image of Obama as a potential commander-in-chief, and no doubt he'll turn to the economy, Democrat's strength, according to the polls.
But um he still goes on to lament the fact there's no bump here.
There's no bump whatsoever.
Now it got even worse.
Because last night on the NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams, interviewing Chuck Todd reported that this election has suddenly become a referendum on Obama.
Where did you I uh look at it?
I'm not bragging.
You understand this.
Where did you first hear this?
On this program.
I try to tell people in this audience this is not about McCain.
This election is not right now at this stage, it's not gonna be this is an up or down referendum on Obama.
Why is this?
You may think, so what, Rush, so they get it.
They always get it late.
They want this to be a referendum on Bush.
Folks.
They want the election.
The Democrats and the drive-bys want this election to be a referendum on Bush.
Now, because Obama has inserted himself so prominently in his acting presidential when he doesn't even have the nomination secured.
People are beginning to think, well, it's gonna be about him.
And there's no way that that's not true.
It is true.
The election will be about him, but that's not the big news out of this.
In this NBC poll, they reported last night on the nightly news at the National Barack Channel.
Fifty-five percent of those surveyed felt it's Obama, that's the riskier choice.
Chuck Todd explaining the polling data to Brian Williams.
Yeah, they're trying to figure this out.
Uh, this guy out, they're trying to figure out who Obama really is, what these leaders overseas are doing.
And then, and then we're trying to figure out why is Obama doing this trip.
Why do he feel he had to do it?
Well, when we asked our voters who is a riskier choice for president, McCain or Obama, 55% told us that it's Obama who was the riskier choice.
We asked who would be the safer choice for president, and they picked McCain at 46%.
So we see why Obama is over here doing this.
He's trying to allay those fears that he's risky and not ready to uh to do these things.
Didn't Chuck Todd said the good news for McCain, he connects on values.
Fifty-eight percent in the NBC survey, the National Barack Channel survey, say that McCain reflects their values, only 47% say that Obama does.
A lot of folks will tell you Obama needs to improve that number, Brian.
Said Chuck Todd to Brian Williams.
Of course he needs.
A lot of people will tell you Obama needs to.
But striking that they would air these results on the NBC Nightly News.
So not only is there no bump, there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of commonality here on values.
Well, these are people in this poll, and uh McCain's seen as less risky than Obama.
Fascinating stuff.
Can't believe they aired it, but they did.
Have to take a little break here at the top of the hour, ladies and gentlemen.
But we'll be back before you know it to resume broadcast excellence.
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