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Sept. 8, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, gang.
You know what the difference between a pit bull and Joe Biden is?
The pit bull.
Hello, once again, everybody.
Jason Lewis here, Minnesota's Mr. Right in for El Rushbo on this momentous Monday afternoon.
A good Monday to you.
What a weekend.
What a week in St. Paul, Minnesota.
I was at the convention.
I'll tell you a few stories about that.
What a weekend for the Palin McCain.
Well, I'm sorry, McCain-Palin ticket.
You get the punchline there, don't you?
This has been an amazing, transformative pick.
This has been the most consequential vice presidential pick in modern American politics.
Maybe Eisenhower Nixon.
But if you talk about a party going into a convention and then what happened when they came out of the convention, this has been the most amazing.
All of the polls over the weekend, have you seen the bounce?
This isn't a bounce.
This is a Superman leaping and bounding over a Manhattan skyline.
USA Today poll.
McCain takes 10-point lead over Obama.
Zogby, McCain Palin up 4%.
Gallup, McCain moves ahead for what is it, 48 to 45?
This was a party.
If anyone doubts whether Sarah Palin should have been the pick, think about what would have happened had she not been the pick.
Think about that for a moment.
Think about now McCain Lieberman.
Great for insomniacs.
Other than that, probably wouldn't have worked.
Think about McCain Ridge.
Think about McCain Palenti, Minnesota's own governor.
Safe pick.
Pretty boring.
Think about any of the other possibilities.
Even McCain Romney, you would have had some star power there, I guess, but you would have had these guys in the crosshairs, two rich white guys.
The Mormonism of Romney, Romney, Karen Matt.
This was the most insightful pick.
And what makes it so insightful is that it was McCain who, A, kept it a secret in the discipline of the campaign to do that.
But really, it wasn't on the radar screen.
He was thinking outside the box all along.
And so now we've got the bounce starting to kick in, not even starting to kick in.
This has been an amazing week.
And Hillary Clinton doesn't even want to touch this.
Have you heard about this?
Hillary Rodham Clinton was appearing in New York, marched for labor, and stumped with Democrats on Saturday.
Didn't take any questions on Sarah Palin, now the nation's most talked about female leader.
That's obvious.
It's obvious that Sarah Palin is now the darling of the country, obvious to everybody except Oprah Winfrey.
Well, I mean, think about it this way.
You know, now that MSNBC is canning Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman from the anchor chairs, they'll still be commentators where they've always belonged, but now the running joke, anchorman Keith Olbermann, is over, maybe Oprah can get a job over there.
I mean, it would fit right in.
I cannot believe the chutzpah of Oprah Winfrey.
The statement she issued, by the way, saying no to Sarah Palin coming on her show, the statement she issued late last week was, well, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates.
I agree Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.
After the campaign is over.
Friends, can anyone say the fairness doctrine?
Why is it we don't hear about that?
I hear about the fairness doctrine all the time as a talk radio host.
We need to get more balance.
We need to play it right down the middle, you know, kind of like MSNBC.
We need to do that for talk radio.
But yet, when it is MSNBC, when it is now, Oprah Winfrey, who has already used your program, has a platform for Barack Obama, literally denying, suppressing why it's borderline censorous.
I mean, this has been an amazing, an amazing development.
And I, not a fan of the fairness doctrine, I got a news flash for the FCC, Kevin Martin, and everybody within earshot.
These are not.
Now, I know this is earth-shattering.
I don't want to get anybody in trouble.
Don't want to get the affiliates in trouble.
But in Jason Lewis's humble opinion, these are not public airwaves any more than my real estate is public.
The government can make certain nobody crashes the frequency you bought and paid for.
The government doesn't pay for the microphone, doesn't pay for the sales department.
The only place that occurs is something called national public radio.
Now, that's public airwaves.
So I've never bought into this notion that somehow the free speech rights of broadcasters must kowtow to some bureaucrat in Washington.
But if they want to play the game, if they want to play that game, why we've got to have the equal application of the law.
That's the spirit of the 14th Amendment.
It's the spirit of our judicial or our Anglo-Saxon legal system.
You apply the law similarly in similar circumstances.
Oprah ought to be taken to the carpet on the fairness doctrine.
They ought to demand under the fairness doctrine the new regime that Democrats want that she put Sarah Palin on.
If it's good enough for radio, it's good enough for the broadcast airwaves on television.
And indeed, it used to apply to that until thankfully Reagan removed this infringement of the First Amendment.
Now, look, all I say is if you want the fairness doctrine in all seriousness, then apply it to the New York Times.
There's absolutely no difference.
If they write another op-ed bashing all things conservative, well, we ought to get equal space.
Simple as that, right?
It's a silly idea.
But again, like Sarah Palin hoisting the petard or hoisting the Democrats on their own identity politics petard, we can use the fairness doctrine the same way.
Isn't that the delicious irony in all of this?
If you think about it, really?
Who created identity politics?
The Democrats.
Who created, if you've got a black representative, he's got to get all the votes of black folks?
The Democrats.
Feminism.
Everybody's a sexist.
The Democrats.
And now the Republicans put a woman, attractive woman, happens to be conservative.
She did three things that heretofore were thought impossible, at the very least incongruent.
She energized the base.
She reaches out to women and independents.
And she keeps energy on the forefront.
That is the genius of this pick.
The big issue for the GOP is energy, because Americans are sane.
Other than Tom Friedman, the energy dilettante from the New York Times, who thinks high energy prices are a good thing, as he told Tom Brokaw yesterday on Meet the Press.
This guy actually runs around.
What is it with these Democrats?
They think high taxes, high energy prices, high grocery prices for methanol and biofuels.
They think that's a good thing.
So, you know, the energy issue was paramount.
Palin keeps it on the forefront.
Reaching out, according to the McCain strategy, was paramount.
She obviously does that.
I was in the convention hall, and the greatest, I missed the greatest, oh, I don't know, manifestation of that because I was on the floor, and I can tell you that between Laura Bush and Sarah Palin, it's hard to say who's got the better legs.
I mean, they're both very nice.
All right, forget about that.
The best thing I saw was when I went home after the convention and watched on C-SPAN.
And Palin's seven-year-old daughter, Piper, was holding the five-month-old Down syndrome baby trig everybody knows about now.
Anybody that's got kids, love this.
This resonates.
Wetting her fingers and patting down the hair, the baby hair on top of the little head of the infant.
I mean, that, I watched that on television.
I didn't see it in the hall, obviously, when I was watching the speech.
And I thought that's the most powerful image for reaching out to the average hockey mom or soccer mom family you could possibly have.
And then, of course, the most important thing McCain needed to do was energize the base, something that none of the other candidates, save Romney, but he brings some baggage, would have done.
So it's amazing trifecta if you think about this.
At once, you energize the base, you reach out, two things thought to be contradictory, and of course, you keep energy on the front burner, which is why a very subdued pit bull, Joe Biden, was really beside himself yesterday on Meet the Press.
Did you see part of that?
He's prevaricating on, you know, first I was against the surge and then I was for it, sort of thing.
He opposed the surge.
He did want to partition Iraq.
Now he says, well, no, I just wanted federalism.
He thought Iraq should be broken up essentially into three pieces.
And he got a lot of traction with that view.
You can't go back and revise history there, Joe.
You know, he was going back and forth and then, you know, the politics of change and who's got it now?
Clearly the Democrats and the ticket, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, are off their stride right now.
They don't know how to handle a strong conservative woman.
Apparently, Oprah doesn't either.
So this has been an amazing success story.
Now, it could still go south.
We don't know.
Palin's got to do the interviews and all of that.
Oh, did you see the ABC news last night?
Unbelievable.
They had a reporter, this no-name reporter on ABC going after Palin because she hasn't met the media yet.
Hey, gang, it's been what, 72 hours?
You know, give her time for a cup of coffee or something.
But she hasn't met the media yet.
And so the ABC reporter finished the package with: voters won't hear from Sarah Palin for a while unless she's reading from a teleprompter, or words to that effect.
You know, it was something that the only way voters have heard Sarah Palin is if she's reading from a teleprompter.
This coming from a television journalist.
This coming from a television journalist.
Hello?
What is it the television journalists do?
Keith Oberman is beside himself without a teleprompter and a script for crying out loud.
This is just, and if I hear, by the way, speaking of the Sunday morning programs, if I hear one more person say, as Bob Schieffer did when he was interviewing McCain yesterday, that, well, we've got to ask more of the American people.
What's the matter, Bob?
High energy prices, high gases, high gas prices, high food costs, high taxes aren't enough?
They need to sacrifice more in a war.
And he went on to state the old shibboleth that Democrats, Obama and Biden, and Schieffer and these Hollywood frauds like Bill Maher keep touting.
We haven't had a tax increase in this war.
This is the only war where we haven't had a tax increase.
We had a tax cut in this war, not asking the American people to, let me dispel this silly little myth once and for all.
Can anybody say the JFK tax cuts that took effect after his death in 1964, in 1965, big-time income tax cuts in 1964 and 65?
Anyone think of what was going on then?
Hmm.
Could it be JFK and LBJ escalating the Vietnam War at the very time tax cuts were kicking in?
So the next time you hear these policy dilettantes like Bill Maher and Bob Schieffer talk about, oh, this is the only war where we've had a tax cut, a little modern history might help.
Speaking of Bill Moore, I don't know if you know this or not.
It's official.
It's actually official.
If Bill Maher appears one more time on the Larry King show, they'll both be legally married in California.
That's kind of, I didn't know that.
I wonder which one would be the man.
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I'm Jason Lewis, Inferel Rushbo on this momentous Monday.
To the phones we go right after this on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
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El Rushbo out today, taking a well-deserved day off after a couple of great weeks of great programming on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
I am Jason Lewis, Minnesota's Mr. Wright, standing in for the big guy.
Hi atop the EIB Tower.
Okay, I'm back in Minnesota.
At 1-800-282-2882 to the phones we go in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Lynn, you're first up today on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Jason.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thanks.
I actually just wanted to comment on Oprah.
I just think it's pretty ironic that through the years, she has made it one of her life missions to empower women.
All of her staff is women.
Her producers are women.
And she won't even step out of her box to give Sarah Palin an interview.
It's just crazy.
And I'm so disappointed.
I can't even watch her show anymore.
You know, this is one of the sad things about modern politics.
And quite frankly, I don't think anyone disparages or looks back upon the civil rights movement with any regret, nor should we.
It was something that was long overdue.
But one of the unfortunate byproducts of, yes, the civil rights movement and many of the people that led it was this identity politics.
I mean, known in other circles as quotas.
It's given us so much obsession, such a national obsession with our characteristics, our identity.
And the dirty little secret, and somebody's got to say this, and I know Rush talked about it last week, but the dirty little secret here is Oprah has chosen her blackness over her gender.
And that's the only thing you can come up with.
She's made a career out of identity, probably identify with women, identify with being African American, identify with this.
Well, people like you, a lot of white suburban moms who've been watching Oprah thought, well, she's one of us.
She likes women.
And I'm not saying that's right either, but she likes women more than anything.
Women are the most important, that sort of identity.
Well, we're finding out that's not true.
She has decided to say to hell with Sarah Palin because Barack's closer to me, closer to what I feel, closer to my experience.
Well, that's not going to play well in Raleigh.
That's exactly right.
You got it.
Interesting.
And again, I think the legal ramifications here are very analogous to what Sarah Palin is doing.
And that is, and look, I've still got my reservations on John McCain.
There are a lot of Republicans, and I'll be honest with you, there were a lot of Republicans in the XL Energy Center in St. Paul last week whom I spoke with.
By the time Thursday night rolled around, were saying, oh, how about a Palin McCain ticket?
But McCain had a tough choice to make.
It was his first choice as to whether he would continue to thumb his nose at the right, conservatives, with some of his past policy positions, or he would actually listen to the right and say, you know what, you're going to have a seat at the table.
I know I need my base.
I know it's a fundamentally conservative party and it's a center-right country.
And he listened and he made the right choice.
That is good.
Even if you're not sold on John McCain, that is a good thing for the base.
That's why a lot of people are so ecstatic about this and the fact she turned out to be such a star.
Again, this is the most consequential pick in probably my political lifetime, not only in transforming a party standing in an election.
Even if the Republicans don't win, this gets them back in it, and the polls all show today they're up.
But going forward, you've launched a new Republican star.
And so in the future, it's going to have a consequence in all of this.
And like Sarah Palin taking feminism and sort of throwing it back in the face of the Democrats who created this obsession, now you've got the fairness doctrine issue with Oprah.
They're the ones that are demanding equal time on talk radio.
Well, we'll give you equal time as soon as Oprah does, gang, in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
Greg, you're next up on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Jason.
Love your show.
Thank you.
I wanted to make a comment that I think that Oprah's probably number one in her time slot, would you say?
I would say by a long shot from what I see.
If you could get the message to the McCain campaign to put her on opposite Oprah and check out the ratings after that show and see how Oprah likes it, you know?
George Stephanopoulos had a funny question to Barack Obama yesterday on this week, at the end, after Barack was stumbling through the interview and he misspoke about his faith and all of that.
But he did say, Stephanopoulos said, would you play one-on-one basketball?
Would you go one-on-one with Sarah Palin?
They're both basketball aficionados.
I say you get that thing set up opposite Oprah.
That, that might teach, that might be a hoot, huh?
Tread is fun.
Yeah, go ahead.
I'm sorry.
I'm pumped about Sarah Palin.
I'll tell you, I was in Alaska two months ago, and it's just such a beautiful place.
Man, she's an incredible woman from all the people that we talk to up there.
I think it was a great pick.
How many times have you heard, and this was the amazing aspect of the pick, I mentioned, I think, what are the three fundamental aspects, energizing the base, reaching out to independents and women, and, of course, keeping energy on the forefront.
But there's another aspect of this.
How many times, and I don't know, maybe you're like me, maybe you're not, I was very, very disgruntled with the Republican ticket or with John McCain.
I did not support him in the primaries.
The bottom line is the Republican Party is their own worst enemy.
They got to Washington and they spent like drunken sailors.
But that, of course, remember the Gippers line wouldn't be fair to drunken sailors.
The bottom line is you needed somebody that could touch that disaffected Republican.
Well, guess who Sarah Palin ran against in Alaska in her entire career?
City council, mayor, governor.
The Republican big spending establishment.
The Murkowskis, the Youngs, the Stevens.
That's another aspect to her pick that is going to resonate.
McCain now can run against Congress.
And when somebody says, well, but the Congress has been controlled by the Republicans up until 2006, he can say, yeah, I'm running against them too.
Yeah.
Minnesota's real anchorman filling in for Rush today with talent on loan from the big guy.
Don't forget rushlimbaugh.com and rush, of course, returns tomorrow to the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 1-800-282-2882.
A ton of stuff to talk about today.
Talked about the polls going way up over the weekend.
The bounce is here.
Talking about, obviously, the Sarah Palin phenomenon.
It can be described as nothing else, really.
And the big Democrat bailout, bailing out the Democrats, crony capitalism, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are now yours.
That's coming up a little later in the program, and I'll describe what's going on there and why it can never happen again if we want to learn a lesson from this.
And we don't know how much this is going to cost taxpayers.
Could be anywhere from $0 to $200 billion.
Unbelievable.
Thought we would have learned our lesson over the SNL crisis and inducing the moral hazard, all of that.
We'll get to that a little later in the program, but this Palin thing is really a phenomenon, so let's stick with that.
Fred in St. Louis, St. Louis Mo, you are on the Rush Limbaugh program with me, Jason Lewis.
Well, Jason, thank God for Sarah Palin.
Lordy, lordy.
I'll tell you what, I was so sick and tired of Rush and you and everybody else referring to Obama as the Messiah, that guess what?
Sarah Palin has now replaced him.
She's the new improved Messiah.
Really?
Do you think so?
Well, do you think that MSNBC views her as the Messiah?
That all of the left-wing smears on blogs.
Fred, you brought it up.
Fred, Fred.
Fred, let me answer your point.
Your point is that turnabout is fair play, that a talk radio called him the Messiah mockingly, and so now we're gushing over Sarah Palin.
So turnabout's fair play, except that wasn't the point of the Messiah line.
The point of the Messiah line.
Well, can I finish?
Sure, talk about that.
Thank you.
For a moment, I thought I was actually anchoring the program.
The bottom line is the media were treating Barack Obama with kid gloves.
And if you don't believe me, you might want to ask Bill or Hillary Clinton.
The bottom line is they were treating him off limits to any serious line of questioning.
So the joke was that they considered him the Messiah.
Now, do you think the media are treating Sarah Palin with kid gloves?
She's a false prophet.
Well, we'll see.
So far, she isn't.
She is.
What makes you think so?
What makes you think so?
Other than you're a liberal?
There's no substance.
Really?
I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what.
I cringe knowing that if anything, God forbid, should happen to McCain, she's going to be taking over.
That's all I have.
Yeah, you know, you wouldn't want someone, you wouldn't want someone that's had over a decade of experience in politics at every level, which gives them actually more experience.
You wouldn't want somebody that runs the state, was head of the Oil and Gas Commission in Alaska, the most powerful agency in that state, runs the National Guard.
No, much better to have a guy a few years out of the state senate in Illinois.
Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
You have the audacity to suggest she doesn't have the experience when the top of your ticket was in the Illinois State Senate a couple of years ago?
You've been talking about Oprah Winfrey.
Just correct me if I'm, I could be wrong on this.
If I corrected you when you were wrong, we would be going for three hours, Fred.
Be actually accepted the nomination.
Before he was running before he was nominated, Fred.
Is that correct or no?
Are you a simple yes or no?
She launched Barack Obama.
She had him on the show.
Are you telling?
Was he the nominee when he was on?
No, he was not the nominee, but why weren't the other nominees on?
That's the point, Fred.
Why?
Because to answer your question, one must have a little more intellect than you seem to have.
And that is to why wasn't the rest of the field on the Oprah show?
Why just Barack?
Can you answer that?
Within the Illinois.
I mean, I'm trying to be serious here.
Why wasn't you said she wasn't on or Barack wasn't on after he was the nominee?
Where was Joe Biden?
Where was Bill and Hillary?
Where were everybody else?
She launched the career.
She put Barack Obama on.
The bottom line is Sarah's got you worried, Fred.
And that's the big problem, isn't it?
That's what I thought.
Let's go to Chino, California.
Ron, you're next up on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
How you doing?
Okay, Sarah has woken up a sleeping giant.
That's kind of my view.
And the idea came from my wife, and that is that, and I think she's right on the money, that there's this whole constituency of women, a large group of women, who for a long time have had to sit and listen to the glorious signs of the world say they represent them.
And there's been no public voices.
It's, wait, wait, wait.
This is who we represent.
And so Sarah comes up, and she is speaking their voice.
And that's the reason there's this whole constituency of women that are so excited and pumped about this because they're saying, at last, it isn't Gloria Steinem saying what they say, you know, what is true about us, which isn't true.
This person represents us.
And so you have them in tears.
You have them upset.
I mean, I'm set excited.
My mother-in-law called.
My mother-in-law is a sweet little old lady, calls and tells me how excited she is about Sarah Palin.
She didn't get excited about anything.
And there is finally a voice for this whole group of women who've been disenfranchised for so long.
That's the aspect of reaching out.
I think you're dead on.
She has much more in common with the average woman in America than, well, say Fred does from St. Louis.
But the problem with the people like Fred, they wanted to get her out.
And I was at the convention all week.
And this was not even a rumor.
This was a stated goal.
They wanted to get her out within 72 hours of Friday, of when she was chosen.
They couldn't do that.
They thought, well, the speech is going to do her in on Wednesday.
She's not going to have the substance to deliver this speech masterfully.
And remember, the ABC reporter over the weekend can't talk without a prompter.
The prompter went down during her speech.
I don't know how many people know that.
It actually went down.
That whole line about the Pit Bull was not part of the planned speech anyway.
So she does have, obviously, some gravitas.
She's a great speaker.
But here is the untold aspect to all of this, and that is the reason people are up in arms and this highlights the fraud of the modern feminist movement and the women's rights movement entirely.
The reason that Fred and St. Louis and Keith Oberman and Bill Maher and the Democrats and all the media are so upset about this is she's a conservative.
She's a conservative.
I mean, had he picked Olympia Snow, it would have been, oh, isn't this a great pick?
You would have had Fred calling in, God, it's good substance.
Yeah, I like that.
They won't come to admit why they really detest this woman.
She ran on a conservative platform for city council.
Believe it or not, her folks were from public education, but she ran on cutting property taxes, saying education has enough money.
Boy, how long have we waited for that?
She runs for the mayor on the same thing.
She runs for governor on this sweetheart deal that Murkowski cut with a couple of oil companies up there and throwing $4 billion in state money at them.
She opened the bidding up.
She redid the deal.
I mean, talk about not having the substance.
She gets to the governor's mansion, and there's this mess of a deal to build this pipeline.
Nobody thinks it's going to get done.
It's mired in crony capitalism and all the rest, sweetheart deals.
She gets it done.
Now, remember, she was on the Oil and Gas Commission, which is an extremely powerful agency up there.
She got it done.
She opened up the bidding to more transparent bidding.
She told the big three, you're not going to get the state subsidies.
You're not going to get a government sanctioned monopoly on some of this stuff.
Oh, yeah, and she ran against spending and tax.
Obviously, she's conservative on the social issues, but on the fiscal issues, she's equally as conservative.
That's why people like me, that's why Rush, that's why the conservative base and the Republicans are fired up.
We don't play identity politics.
It's not all about being a woman, although that clearly is going to help.
And it's a delicious irony considering what the Democrats have done over the last few decades with, you know, women can do no wrong.
You can't criticize women and all of that.
No, she's a conservative first and a woman second, if you will.
That's what's really driving the excitement about Sarah Palin, just what John McCain needed.
If you really want to know why she's the Messiah.
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I'm Jason Lewis in for El Rushbo on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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I am Jason Lewis, Minnesota's Mr. Wright, filling in for the big guy once again.
Boy, what a weekend.
You had football, too.
How about that Brett Favre?
Know the gang in New York's all excited about Brett Farf, which is why he didn't go to the Vikings.
Packers, no way they were going to let him go to the Vikings, I'll tell you, from up here in Minnesota.
But football season underway, a little crispness in the air, the campaign season rolling.
And as Rush would say, we got the babe.
What's not the like?
Parkland, Florida.
Cy, you're up next on the Rush Limbaugh program with me, Jason Lewis.
Good afternoon, Jason.
A privilege to talk to you.
I've learned more about constitutional law than from anything else that I ever heard on the radio, and I thank you for that.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, what I wanted to talk about is that we have to be really, really cautious right now because they're so hysterical.
This is their worst nightmare, Sarah Palin.
And so, what they're trying to do is with lies and half-truths, giving part of the story, they're trying to create doubt in the minds of the public.
I mean, just as a couple of examples on the left-wing blogs, I was all over them this weekend.
She's a Nazi sympathizer, which is not true.
She's a huge supporter of Israel and the Jewish community.
She bans books, which she never did.
She's a religious kook.
She actually took pork, which she didn't do.
The pork that she took, the $27 million, basically was to save a mental health facility.
She wants creation, which is not, yes, she would like to have some creation taught along with evolution in the classroom to be balanced.
All have, all lies, all lies.
And I'm just, you know, I mean, between you and Well, don't feel too bad about it right now.
I think this is Sarah Palin's campaign to lose.
By that, I mean these left-wing lunatics, and I saw them in action, the protesters in St. Paul last week.
These people are, you know, living proof that the war on drugs isn't working.
These people are just out of it.
And the more they make up these outrageous allegations, the more things that come out about this or that and somebody's DUI 20 years ago or whatever, the more real she becomes.
The more people actually connect with her.
What the liberals don't understand is when you're in a hole, quit digging.
And they are doing for the conservative base, and I think for a lot of independents in this ticket, more favors than they could ever imagine.
Why do you think Barack Obama and Joe Biden are so tepid right now?
I've never seen Biden that subdued.
They don't know what to do.
Now, that doesn't mean Sarah Palin doesn't have to deliver.
She's got to deliver.
She's got to make certain she's reading all the briefing papers, getting policy down, so when she goes into the gotcha questions that the media are sure to throw at her when they get their shot, that she can give a coherent answer.
Now, I think she will, but I don't think some of these outrageous attacks look, look what's happened to MSNBC.
MSNBC has effectively become a wholly owned subsidiary of moveon.org and the daily cost kuk.
So they have gone so far off the left-wing deep end that they don't even have any credibility with Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams anymore.
Those are the guys that really were saying to NBC, amongst other anonymous sources, say, well, MSNBC is ruining the brand, but it was far too late for that.
Don't you think that the point?
Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Yeah, don't you think that one of the questions that because they really have no ability to be, I know she'll deliver on just about every issue because she's very, very smart.
She's done things in Alaska that people didn't think were possible.
But when they asked Obama about abortion, he said it was above his pay grade, and they accept that kind of an answer.
And I think that they're going to be coming at her, you know, in that particular situation.
And, you know, I'm not sure how.
Well, they're going to be coming at her much more vociferously than they ever came at Barack Obama.
The whole Messiah thing was not about how the Democrats thought he was the Messiah, although they do.
It was about how the media played into it.
And they gave Barack Obama softballs, and even the Clintons mentioned that in so many words.
A lot of Democrats felt that.
Geraldine Ferraro felt that.
The bottom line is they will not do that to Sarah Palin.
They will be out for blood, and she will have a much tougher go of it.
So she's got to step up to the plate.
But so far, I mean, this is what's driving them nuts.
She stepped up to the plate and hit it for extra bases, if not out of the park, every time.
And the reality of the situation is that she was by far the best choice.
Everyone else had baggage.
Anybody have any questions as to that now, given the polls, given what's happened?
Of course she was.
Now, Chuck Schumer, a darling of the GSE crowd, the government-sponsored enterprises that we're now bailing out, he said that McCain was rolling the dice.
Interestingly enough, that's the same thing Clinton said about Obama when he was running.
But he said that Representative Jim Clyburn, House Majority Whip, said the decision was risky.
And like Geraldine Ferraro, this is what Clyburn said.
Like Geraldine Ferraro, it will prove to be a disaster.
They've misjudged this thing completely.
The media have misjudged this thing completely.
They are underestimating her like they underestimated Reagan and Bush 41.
And they're going to get their comeuppance if they keep going down this road.
Thanks for checking in.
Let's try Steve in Green Bay, Wisconsin, soon to be defeated by the Minnesota Vikings tonight.
Hey, Jason, nice to talk to you.
I wanted to touch on this community organizer thing that Barack did for how many years?
Two years?
A couple of years.
He worked with such esteemed groups like Acorn, known for illegally registering anybody that moves.
That's it.
Somebody told me about this Acorn, so I Googled Obama Acorn.
Right.
And it scared the heck out of me, August.
It scared the hell out of you, too, I imagine, yeah.
Acorn is one of the most nefarious groups the world has ever known.
And by that, I mean they have been illegally registering people all across this country for years and getting federal money to do it.
They just settled in Milwaukee.
They just settled in Washington.
They've been indicted, I believe, in Missouri or Ohio or both.
They are an absolute dishonest group.
And they started out as a welfare rights organization.
Acorn did.
What is it?
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
And if that's the idea of community organizing, boy, no wonder they're hurting.
So why aren't we tying Acorn to Obama?
I mean, I don't see this in any of the ads.
That's good question.
That's an excellent question.
They're just talking about a community organizer.
The fact is, these Acorn ties will be death for Obama, political death, that is, of course, when you consider what they've been doing over the years.
Acorn, I would venture to say anybody listening to this program has probably had Acorn in their community, and half of you have probably had Acorn in court for doing something that somebody thought was illegal.
They take homeless people.
They register them.
They are, and they get your tax money to do it.
Oh, by the way, they were getting money for a number of years from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
I'm Jason Lewis in for El Rushpoe on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Democrats, national security credentials waning, according to this story I'll get to next hour.
Also, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, but let's squeeze in Ashland in Simpsonville, South Carolina, before we go to the top of the hour news.
Hi.
Hi there.
Look, just quickly, I wanted to say that, you know, for the first time as a tennis mom here in Greenville, I've found a deep connection with a Republican candidate, you know, for the first time in Sarah Palin.
Wait a minute.
Did you say tennis mom?
Yeah, USTA community organizer, actually.
Very much so, yes.
But for the first time, like I said, now I have this connection, but I find that this connection is so deep that I'm tempted to follow her using my heart alone.
And on that level, it makes me understand now.
I've just been so clueless as to how people, I believe, can follow Obama without really listening to him.
And I understand that for the first time.
Well, I wouldn't prescribe that as a way to determine your vote going forward.
We really do need to still research the issues.
Had Sarah Palin, with all her obvious talents, been a liberal, I wouldn't be gushing today.
I actually believe in her because she's a conservative.
Believes in the power of limited government and constitutional government, and that's why so many people are energized.
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