Music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, Rushlin Bohr, joining you here together in the darkness.
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And the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
So yesterday on the program, I spent some time with in-depth and nuanced political analysis backed up by evidence.
The evidence from NBC News on Sunday and the Washington Post on Sunday and Monday, the evidence was, backing up the analysis, that the media has decided that essentially, and I'm going to throw Obama overboard, but when we get through this year, and actually even now, it's time to look forward.
It's time to make sure that we have an untainted Democrat nominee who can win.
And in everybody's mind on the left, that person is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
It was hers in 2008, don't you know?
She had been promised, she had been assured, of a virtual coronation because of her sacrifice in moving to Arkansas and putting up with everything she's had to put up with as Mrs. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
She did that.
She enabled Clinton to remain Clinton, Clinton to remain governor, Clinton to remain president, to be re-elected, to overcome Monica Lewinsky, the bimbo eruptions.
Hillary made that possible by hanging in there.
Now, Hillary was given things in the process, the chance to screw up health care and to pick attorney generals like Janet El Rino and other botched choices.
But even at that, Hillary Clinton was the smartest woman in the world.
Bar none.
No contest, no question.
And after eight years of the stupid idiot cowboy, George W. Bush, the country was once again ready for Democrat liberal brilliance.
And that was to be Hillary Clinton.
It was her election.
It was her nomination.
It was her coronation.
And then we all know what happened.
A younger African American came along, and the powers that be in the Democrat Party did a side-by-side comparison.
And they threw in with the younger African-American.
And Hillary Clinton was once again kicked to the curb.
But Hillary Clinton was a good soldier after losing the bitterly fought Democrat nomination fight, even after being supported by Operation Chaos here on the EIB network.
Hillary Clinton faced insurmountable campaign debt, and like all Democrats, she didn't want to use her money to repay it.
So along came Barack Obama.
Originally, Barack Obama wanted to offer her the vice presidency under the theory that you keep your enemies close.
He also wanted to nominate her as vice president so that she would always have to be loyal and could never do what she's doing now.
But he didn't nominate her.
He didn't ask her to be the vice president because he also didn't want Bill Clinton taking up residence in the White House.
He didn't want Bill Clinton running around with an open invitation to every Obama event.
If Hillary were the vice president, he'd have to deal with Bill.
And he really doesn't like Bill, really doesn't like Hillary, but he had to keep her close because he didn't want her to do a Ted Kennedy, as Ted Kennedy did to Jimmy Carter in 1980 and run against him in 2012.
So she made him Secretary of State, but she did not, he did not actually turn the reins of foreign policy over to her.
He micromanaged it with his national security people, but it was made to look like she was in charge.
And it was an absolute total disaster from Benghazi to the Russian reset.
It was total ineptness, total incompetence on the part of both Obama and Hillary and everybody in their team.
Well, now the decision to make her Secretary of State and not Vice President is coming home to roost.
If she were the vice president today, she couldn't do what she's doing.
She couldn't run out and trash.
She wouldn't have resigned as vice president.
But as Secretary of State, hell, been around the world three times.
What's left to see?
I'm out of here.
And besides that, John Kerry wanted the job because he speaks French, wanted it on his resume.
It's the 21st century.
John Kerry knew how to bring peace to the world.
We're seeing it with our very own eyes now.
Yuck, yuck.
So she's outside the tent now.
She's out there as the next Democrat nominee, but she cannot win the Democrat nomination if she has seen part of the Obama administration because it's a disaster.
And the media knows it's a disaster.
They can see the approval numbers.
They see the latest NBC poll.
They see the latest Gallup poll.
They see CNN, Obama trending downward rapidly.
They cannot afford to have Hillary attached to that in any way.
Hillary can't be attached to it in any way.
She can't let that happen.
She's got to distance herself from Obama, but still not anger the extreme wacko Democrat base.
Obama's base, Elizabeth Warren's base.
Hillary has got to distance herself from Obama, but not distance herself from extreme liberalism.
And I think we had a soundbite I didn't get to yesterday.
It was Joe Trippy.
I don't need it, cookie.
I can tell people what he's going to say.
It sounded bite yesterday was that Trippy thinks that Hillary may not understand yet just how far left the Democrat Party has actually moved.
Not the inside the Beltwide Democrat Party, but the voters.
And his point was she's going to have, it's going to be a real tough thing to do to distance herself from Obama and still satisfy the Democrat base because they are so far left that any distance at all they are going to see as a betrayal.
Now, the fallacy in that, and when you hear that point, it sounds reasonable, but there's a fallacy in it.
And the fallacy is that Mrs. Clinton is not an extreme liberal.
She is.
She is every bit the extreme leftist that Obama is.
She and her husband both are.
They have crafted, however, entirely different images.
Bill Clinton is seen practically as a centrist with leftist tendencies.
Just a good old boy, yunking it up, having a good old time, really living a life he can live the best he can, having the most fun in the world.
Loyal Democrat, helping Democrats here, there, and everywhere.
That was always their game.
Bill had to get the votes, so he couldn't appear to be who he was.
Hillary, behind the scenes, was the extreme leftist that they both are.
Hillary picking the cabinet members, Hillary picking the nominees for this or that and the other thing.
So the idea that Hillary doesn't know how far left the Democrat Party's moved, I don't think it's true.
It's right where the Democrat Party should be, according to her.
But I think Trippy had a point.
However, because the Democrat Party has gone so far left, most Democrats are still happy with Obama.
At least the majority of them are.
His numbers are not as high as they were, obviously, 2008, 2009.
But most Democrats are still okay with Obama.
And she's got the task now of separating herself from all of this, that is the Obama presidency.
But she can't go too far because the Democrat Party is extreme left.
Here comes the media.
Their job is to pull this off.
Their job is to give her credibility and back her up when she starts attacking Obama's foreign policy.
Because remember, it was hers.
She was every bit as incompetent as he is.
But they're trying to set it up now that she really didn't have that much power, Secretary of State.
The story that they're putting out is that Obama didn't really relinquish that.
She wasn't a figurehead, but it wasn't much more than that.
And so now the media is supporting her as she trashes the regime.
And in supporting her, the media appears to be throwing Obama overboard on a few things.
And there is evidence out there.
Michael Goodwin in the New York Post, we cited the evidence and showed it for you yesterday from NBC on Sunday, Meet the Press, when even F. Chuck Todd, David Gregory, launched into Obama.
It wasn't to criticize Obama.
It was to build up Hillary.
And the Washington Post, Dana Milbank.
Michael Goodwin in the New York Post today, Obamaism is dead and Hillary Clinton killed it.
Now, this is a story that's along the same lines.
This one does not praise Hillary.
Goodwin is not part of the left-wing media.
Obamaism is dead.
Hillary Clinton killed it.
It wasn't so much a mercy killing as an expedient one, but that's politics in the best sense.
The important thing is, she broke Democrat Omerita code by stating the obvious.
The president's policy of having America sit on the sidelines of a burning world is a disaster that threatens our national security.
And she did say that.
She said, doing nothing is not a plan of action.
Doing nothing is not foreign policy.
The power of her argument is confirmed by a report that a very testy Obama called it horse manure.
Two congressional leaders, and even David Axarod, an Obama devotee, blasted her, proving that she scored a direct hit on the Chicago Mafia's central nervous system.
Next, we move to J-POD, John Pedoritz, also in the New York Post.
Hammering Obama, Hillary has only begun.
Memo to President Obama, you should have made Hillary your Veep back in 2008.
She was the obvious choice, but you believed that you were strong enough without her.
Big mistake.
If she were Veep, she'd be inside the tent and she couldn't be urinating all over you.
But she is outside the tent, and so it is a big problem.
David Axelrod swipes at Hillary Clinton over Iraq.
Axelrod, longtime advisor to Obama, went to Twitter to slam Hillary in the wake of her comments, rejecting the core of Obama's self-described foreign policy principle.
In an interview with the Atlantic, this was the third big shoe to drop.
Hillary Clinton said the White House doctrine of don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle.
To which I ask, well, is plastic red reset button with Russia an organizing principle, Mrs. Clinton?
Now, just to clarify, don't do stupid stuff means stuff like occupying Iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision.
Read the tweet from Axelrod.
See, what's happening now, they're going back to the first series of votes on the use of force authorization Bush sought to go into Iraq, and Hillary voted yes both times.
That is how they are attacking her.
That she never was really opposed to Bush's Iraq policy.
That her policy on Iraq is no different than Bush's.
And the Clinton people, rather, the Obama people are now forced into attacking Hillary so as to defend Obama.
Next up, Mrs. Clinton claims that arming the Syrian rebels was the same thing as supporting al-Qaeda.
Well, which it was.
But she didn't say anything at the time.
Now it's after the fact she's outside the tent and she's ripping into Obama's Syria policy.
But she has said both things.
She has supported Obama's policy and now opposes it.
So the question is Hillary lying then or is she lying now?
It could be that she was just dutifully towing the Obama line back in 2012.
2012 is when she spoke in support of Obama's drawing a red line and arming the rebels in Syria to take on Bashr Assad.
Those rebels were ISIS.
We were supporting al-Qaeda in Iraq, now called ISIS, in their battle against Assad, siding against Assad.
Hillary is now calling Obama out on all of this.
So last night, the couples appeared at a joint birthday party at the home of well-known Washington Iraqin tour Vernon Jordan at Martha's Vineyard.
And Hillary suggested before they both arrived last night that they hug it out.
Hillary Clinton called on President Obama yesterday to make sure he knows that nothing she said was an attempt to attack him when she recently discussed her views on foreign policy in the Atlantic.
Statement comes as Obama and Clinton due to cross paths, social gathering, Vernon Jordan's house, Martha's Vineyard.
So they just, let's hug it out, which is conflict resolution 101.
So what Hillary is saying, look, Barack, I got to run for office here, and I can't run as you.
I've got to distance myself.
You understand.
You understand.
And Obama's saying, no, I don't understand.
And I don't approve of what you're doing.
I don't want any part of it.
Not long ago on CNN, on a show called Wolf, Wolf Blitzer, chief political analyst, CNN, spoke to Gloria Borger, also chief political analyst.
I guess she's the chief political analyst.
I guess Wolf's the anchor.
And Wolf said, the kind of criticism that in the last few days we've heard in that Atlantic interview that Hillary gave, criticizing President Obama, took me back to the days in 2008 when they were both running for the presidential nomination, Democrat Party.
And I moderated several of those Democrat debates, Gloria.
And you heard that friction and that tension.
It was real back then, Gloria.
What about it now?
It's still there.
I mean, remember the moment in New Hampshire as well, you're likable enough, Hillary, which backfired on then-candidate Obama.
You know, this is the kind of thing, when you take a policy dispute and you disparage the president and you kind of make it personal, which I would argue she did, it can backfire on you.
And I do believe that people in the White House were very upset about this.
This kind of an interview is something I don't think they expected, particularly with the wording she used.
The don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle.
It's a little demeaning to the president.
Right, exactly.
It is.
And they are upset about it in the White House, even though Hillary's camp called him and said, look, we have to do this.
You understand?
It's all about keeping the White House two years from now.
And the Obama people, no, you don't rip the boy wonder.
You just don't do.
There's no, ever, no justification for it.
You don't rip Obama.
Nobody does.
Not the Democrat Party.
It doesn't happen.
There's never any justification for it.
They're not happy about it.
But this is being done to promote Hillary, distance her from Obama.
This one thing he did say at a joint debate about Mrs. Clinton.
Hillary's likable enough.
It was, it didn't backfire.
Gloria Borger said it backfired on it.
Well, how did it backfire?
He won, didn't he?
What do you mean it backfired?
What, his poll numbers went down for a couple days?
Backfired?
And now this supposedly is going to backfire on her?
Wrong O.
This isn't going to backfire on her.
This is all part of a two-year movement or campaign to get her nominated.
We continue with the audio soundbites.
This is Ben Rhodes, and he's the deputy national security advisor.
It's about the troops that we're sending to Iraq, and he's assuring AP, Julie Pace, he's assuring her that these are not boots on the ground, these 130 new ones.
No, no, no, no, no, not.
With respect to the humanitarian situation, that is to get food, water, and emergency supplies to the population on this mountain, and also as necessary to take airstrikes against ISIL as they threaten the people on that mountain.
These 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in Iraq.
The key point here is that the U.S. forces, the role of U.S. forces is not one of re-entering combat on the ground.
It's how to provide humanitarian assistance to this affected population.
And again, in terms of the kinetic actions that are being taken, those are in the form of airstrikes.
Right, and they're not going to be part of kinetic action.
It's just like we said in Vietnam.
These are just advisors.
They're not boots on the ground.
They're not going to be pulling the trigger on anybody.
A couple of things here.
What is kinetic action?
There's no war here.
We don't have these boots.
They're not on the ground.
This is engaging kinetic action.
That is how Obama described what we did to take out Muammar Gaddafi.
It wasn't a war.
It was kinetic action.
Do you think Gaddafi could tell a difference?
Hey, Omar, the U.S. has just declared war.
No, don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
This is just kinetic action.
No harm to come.
Really?
There's a difference, a kinetic action or war.
Well, that's what the regime is saying.
Pick up all these new words to describe what they're doing, which is the same old stuff.
By the way, didn't Eric Holder tell us criticism of Obama is racist?
Well, does that mean that Hillary is racist?
She's out there ripping into his foreign policy, a sit-on-ass, do-nothing.
And that she's being critical of him.
Any criticism of Obama is racist.
That's right.
That's not the first time we've heard that about the Clintons.
And then the White House is turning around attacking Hillary.
Is that sexism?
And then isn't all of this misogynistic once if you strip away everything happening here?
There's a whole bunch of isms going on here.
Is Obama afraid of strong women?
I don't think so.
I think he's surrounded by strong women.
I think this is the most chickified regime that we've ever had.
His lawyers are.
I had a story a long time ago that four prominent Obama advisors are all women prosecutors, former prosecutors and so forth.
We got Susan Rice in there.
You got Valerie Jarrett runs the whole show.
We've got Samantha Power.
Does that woman not constantly look constipated in pain?
She constantly looks like she's in pain.
She's got this pain-frowned look on her face.
Oh, oh, my God.
And she's at the UN.
I don't know if I can.
I guess you can't blame her.
No, I do.
I think this is a chickified.
Yeah, I mean, all I mean by that is that they're more powerful women.
I don't think he's afraid of them at all.
Well, maybe he is, and that's why they're there.
I don't know.
Lee in Phoenix, as we head back to the phones, I'm really glad you waited.
How are you?
Good morning, sir.
How are you?
Dudos to you.
You always clarify everything, so I was really curious.
And by the way, thank you for telling it like it is, and for the kids' books, especially.
Thank you, sir, very much.
The planet is on fire right now, and Obama and Clinton lie to us by opening their mouths.
So I'm trying to understand something.
Robin Williams decides of his own volition, a guy living in Tiburon, who's got everything.
I mean, Tiburon, do you know Tiburon?
You know California.
I've been to Tiburon.
Right, so the home start at seven figures, and the income starts at at least six if you want to be a maid.
So he can't afford the mortgage.
He can't afford the lifestyle.
His divorces, of his own volition, obviously, the two of them suck the life out of him.
And he makes fun of every conservative on the planet.
And everybody feels terrible for him.
That's all we want to talk about right now.
Lauren Bacall passes away at 89.
Last week, the woman was doing voiceovers.
Bogey passed away, what, 40 years now, 50 years ago?
She's put everybody in the ground, but Robin Williams is in the most important.
And he chose to take his own life.
Can you put that and clarify that in perspective for me, sir?
Well, I think I can.
Robin Williams was so big.
He was so beloved, even though he was not a, is not thought of as a political comedian.
He didn't make a whole lot of political jokes, they say.
He just made fun of people.
Actually, he did.
But he did make a lot of.
Look, he was.
John Stewart.
He was well known as one of them.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
And so there's a, I think all of these people had a personal connection.
He was of their generation.
Lauren Bacall.
Most of them ever saw her work.
Most of them think that she's just there because Bogey was there.
And maybe if Lauren Bacall had passed away with no other celebrity deaths nearby, there would have been a little bit more attention paid to it.
But I totally understand this.
Robin Williams is having a tough time.
He has to sell his Napa ranch for $30 million.
I feel awful for that.
I don't know that he ever sold it.
I know that he.
Oh, it's on to sale.
All of this stuff on the money is relative.
Whether you've got whatever they said his net worth was, what did I say, $150 million or something?
Whether you've got $50,000 or $50 million, if you lose it all, it's still gone.
It's still, and that's still a pressure-packed situation.
But he made his choice.
You mean the divorces?
The divorces, yes.
And to go in the garage of the house.
I mean, I think they're really being ugly about how and where and the belt and whatnot.
He made a choice, leave the man alone.
That's what he decided to do.
But with the planet on fire, I don't mean to be mean.
I know the guy was funny, and I own several of his movies.
I have a tremendous movie collection.
See, to you, the planet on fire is the Middle East, our foreign policy, immigration, the disintegration of the country.
To the pop culture media, the world is on fire because Robin Williams is gone.
They should listen to Levin.
Levin would wake their puppies up.
What are you saying?
You know, between you and Levin, it's just the truth comes out.
They can't handle it.
Mark Levin tells it just like you.
They can't.
A little more legalese, basically.
They can't handle it.
That's the point.
It's all fantasy world for them.
It's a make-believe world that they're concocting.
It's what could be, it's what was.
It's like Camelot in a way.
And they're just very sad that it's gone.
And to them, the world's on fire because I read the quote to you from Russell Brand.
He's another actor.
And his take on this is: if the world is so screwed up that Robin Williams doesn't want to live in it, what does that say for the rest of us?
See, his point is, Robin Williams may be smarter than all of us.
Because if this world is so messed up that not even Robin Williams wants to live in it, then and that's kind of an indication, I think, of the mindset.
Lauren Bacall also Was in her day, she was a radical leftist, but she's 89.
You know, the 89-year-olds do die.
And the people you're talking about reporting on that are nowhere near 89.
Somebody 89 passing away is, well, natural causes is what happens.
Sad, but suicide, oh no.
Oh, God, what do we do to call?
Oh, no.
What does it say?
Oh, no.
It's no sensitive.
Oh, no.
And, you know, another genius has left the world.
And they feel abandoned in many cases.
Anyway, Lee, I appreciate the call, and so does Levin.
And we'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Yeah, Vernon Jordan was the one who found her a job.
If he could just have found her a boyfriend, but he found her a job.
And I'm confused.
I think I thought the hug-in that this birthday party, whatever, whatever is going on at Vernon Jordan's house at the Vineyard.
I thought it was last night, but I guess it's tonight, or was it last night?
Which is it?
It's tonight, okay?
They haven't hugged yet.
You know, there's a golf course on the vineyard that I have played.
It's called The Vineyard, Vineyard Golf Club.
I've been there.
First time I went in, I actually thought about putting chaff on EIB1 in case I was attacked on final approach just to, you know, maybe get the surface-to-air missiles attacking the chaff and not me.
But apparently, Obama went there to play golf today, yesterday.
New York Post has a story, and everybody there in the restaurant, on the golf course, everybody there was searched and wandered.
And they were offended by it.
They didn't like it.
Now, Obama went out and shook everybody's hands and so forth after that, but apparently it was a disruption, which it always is.
Let's see.
That's it, Vernon Jordan.
Do I have time?
I really, you know, I don't have time to get this call, and I really need to get her number.
And if we can't talk to her tomorrow, maybe she'll let us call her on Open Line Friday.
We have a nice woman from New Mexico who, I'll just tell you what it says up here.
It says, you saved her life after 9-11.
She lost her father and a very serious injury that put her in a wheelchair.
And she says here she was about to give up.
But the positive message on this program changed her mind.
And I had a minute here, but that wasn't going to be enough time.
So I think Snerdley just nodded at me that she's agreed to let us call her tomorrow.
So we'll do that.
That'd be the fair thing to do.
One minute certainly wouldn't have been enough time for that.
So we'll do that.
Take a brief time out now.
Be right back.
As always, folks, I want to thank you sincerely from the bottom.
My sizable, beating heart.
Boom-boom.
Greatly appreciate you being here each and every day.
Makes it all worth it.
I mean, I could still do this if you weren't there.