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December 26, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Thus we arrive at the third hour of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Welcome.
It is Eric Erikson here.
The phone number 800 28282 on this open line Friday, the day after Christmas, the second day of the twelve days of Christmas.
I didn't get any turtle doves today, though, I will have you know.
You can get me on Twitter and Facebook at EW Erickson, EWERICKSON and email Eric K R I C K at redstate.com.
Don't forget as well, go to Rush Limbaugh.com where you can find all sorts of stuff, the show notes, galore, and more.
Peggy Noonan has a column out for the weekend in the Wall Street Journal.
Now I I don't want to delve into the bulk of her column because it is it's about her church, St. Thomas Moore Church in New York City and the Catholic Church is looking to sell it and it's a prosperous church with a lot of people, but she says that that's the background here.
But she says the Archdiocese is defensive about closing churches in poor areas.
What better way to comfort themselves and avoid bad press than closing one in an affluent area?
The press spokesman for the diocese told the newspaper it would be wrong and unjust if only less affluent parishes were closed.
The cardinal, the cardinal in New York himself told one parishioner he sees it as a matter of fairness.
I can't just close poor parishes.
All this seems in line, and this is the key takeaway here.
All this seems in line with the de Blasiozation of the Times.
Pick a target, move against it, especially move on excellence, which can be painted as elitist.
If you can't help the poor, you can at least in afflict those you imagine to be rich.
Now I I've I I know and like Peggy Noonan, and I have to disagree with her on this.
This is not the de Blasioization of the Times.
This is the Obamization of the Times.
This is what Barack Obama does.
The lead editorial for USA Today, today.
Wussy Nation, our view.
From Ebola to university controversies to North Korea, why are so many so scared?
America has much to be cocky about.
It invented large scale democracy and nourished its growth around the world.
It vanquished fascism and communism, became the world's only superpower.
And its entrepreneur driven economy is again the envy of the world.
The nation has also long had more than its share of heroes.
People such as Louis Amparini, whose amazing story of survival during World War II is the subject of a best selling book and new movie.
Yet look around.
The USA it fear and anxiety.
If you didn't know better, you'd think this was a nation of wimps.
And then they go on to give a litany of things, and they summarize it this way.
Part of the explanation for the fear is the indelible scar left by 911.
Part is the fear of lawyers and lawsuits in an overly litigious society.
And part comes from a cynical age that has eroded faith in so many of these institutions, or so many institutions.
All of these need to be tempered.
The world's greatest and most powerful nation deserves people who exhibit backbone and have the confidence to live by their principles.
You know what's not mentioned here?
The president.
Other than he called out Sony Pictures.
You see, contra Peggy Noonan, this isn't the de Blasiozation, this is the Obamization.
I mean, let me read this one sentence again to get you to the nugget of it.
The world's greatest and most powerful nation deserves people who exhibit backbone.
We deserve leaders who exhibit backbone and pride in the nation.
But I I tell you the truth.
I've come to the conclusion that President Obama, Russia's been right all along.
President Obama doesn't particularly care for the nation.
He wants to fundamentally transform the nation because he looks at the nation and he sees its flaws and he wants to fix them.
And what are its flaws?
It is the last best hope for mankind.
It is the shining city on the hill.
I said before when I filled in here, and let me give you again my prevailing theory of Obamization.
The world will be safer when America is less safe.
The world will be more stable when America is less stable.
The world will be richer when America is poorer.
That defines the Obama presidency.
We are now producing just barrels and barrels more of oil, driving down oil prices, and suddenly that's a bad thing.
The president out of one side of his mouth is taking credit for it, and on the other side of his mouth is telling liberals to do what they can to shut it down.
Then we've got this.
The president marked the end of more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan by paying true tribute to America's military.
This is his quote.
They're just discussing this on Fox News a few minutes ago.
Because of the extraordinary service of the men and women in the American armed forces, Afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country.
We are safer.
It's not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again.
Nobody believes him.
The military doesn't believe him.
For certain, the American military doesn't believe him.
The president is so excited to get out of Afghanistan, he can barely contain his glee.
Meanwhile, the Taliban and Pakistan have gunned down a bunch of kids in a school.
They'll just cross over the border.
We've announced our timetable to get out of Afghanistan, and they're just laying waiting patiently to go back in.
It is the Obamization of the times to read this sentence from Peggy Noon again.
Pick a target, move against it, especially move on excellence, which can be painted as elitist.
If you can't help the poor, you can at least inflict afflict those you imagine to be rich.
Now the rich are overwhelmingly donating to the Democrats.
Breitbart.com has that story, but the Democrats perceive themselves to be the party of the poor.
Never mind the parties now voting against them, the poor are voting against them.
The Democrats are convinced they are what they are not.
What they remain is deeply hostile to the ideals of the United States.
Back in the eighties, Jean Kirkpatrick, she was Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the UN.
And in 84, at the Republican convention, she gave a speech about the San Francisco Democrats.
They root when America loses.
They cheered on the Soviets in the 80s.
They cheered on the communists against democracy.
They've cheered on every bad thing in the world.
They're now in charge.
I mean, for Pete's sake, Barack Obama's mentor growing up was that Frank Davis Marshall or Frank Marshall Davis, whatever the communist in Hawaii.
He surrounded himself with a hotbed of academic intellectual America haters.
That is who the president gets advice from.
They are overwhelmingly from liberal nonprofits.
He has very few people from capitalist private sector economies advising him.
He himself was an academic elitist.
He tries to do this biography of himself when in fact he went to an elite private school in Hawaii.
They have antipathy for traditional American values.
They have antipathy for the traditional American way of life.
They see us as bullies in the world.
So for USA Today to come out and say we're a nation of wusses, a nation of wimps.
The nation has lost faith in its institution of governments because it has lost faith in the president of the United States.
Our president wears mom jeans.
Now the left goes insane whenever I point that out or anyone else points that out, but it's true.
We're not a nation of wimps, but we're led by wimps.
We are a nation that is not scared, but is scared for its legacy.
Because I got to tell you something.
I get the prevailing sense, not just from Democrats, but from a lot of Republicans in Washington as well.
That they believe the American age is over.
You know, this USA Today opera editorial says that we are the envy of the world.
Well, just two weeks ago.
Liberals were hailing the fact that China has moved ahead of us economically.
We're now in the age of China.
The Chicoms are ahead.
Rooting that we're no longer number one.
It's like when the World Cup comes around.
You know, the World Cup and Thokker, you've got all these liberals who go out and they start cheering for the United States in a way they never do in the Olympics.
It's jingoism if you do it in the Olympics.
By God, we can't root about football teams anymore.
But when the World Cup runs around, they can cheer.
Why?
Because we're not guaranteed to be number one.
So now liberals will cheer on the United States.
Now they'll say we're we're we're wonderful and great because we're not number one anymore economically.
The Chicoms are, but they really privately like the Chikops.
I mean, Tom Friedman of the New York Times is their biggest cheerleader.
We have in Washington, D.C. an establishment of both parties that believes it's time to manage the decline.
That's why 2016 is so important.
That's why the 2016 Republican nominee is going to be so important.
The odds are with the Republican nominee, believe it or not.
That's why conservatives are going to need to rally quickly around one person.
It's always conservatives who divide up among a bunch of people.
And the the moderates and liberals of the Republican Party, they gravitate towards one person, fund that person, and he can take on a divided field.
McCain in 2008, Romney in 2012.
That's why it's so important conservatives gravitate toward one person now in 2016.
Because the odds are with the Republicans.
With the exception of Ronald Reagan, it's been exceedingly difficult for a president's party to win a third term.
In fact, if you take it down to the gubernatorial level, in the swing states, uh my buddy Dan McLaughlin, I believe at the Federalist.com did a did an article of this.
He wrote about it at redstate.com as well, where I'm the editor.
It is extremely difficult for one party to win three executive terms.
Because while a governor or a president can win a second term in office, it's real hard by the time they're through with their second term for their party to own them.
Hillary Clinton cannot run in 2016 throwing Obama under the bus.
That's why the media is just absolutely gleeful with this year-end polling.
The president's polling has come back up.
He's still below 50, but he's better than he was.
One poll doesn't make a trend.
But they're positively gleeful about it.
Because they just they they want Hillary to do well.
It's going to be hard for her.
And Republicans have a chance to embrace and nominate someone who believes again in the shining city on the hill.
And let leave managing the decline rhetoric to the Democrats.
We need hope and optimism, not hope and change.
Eric Erickson, in for rush.
Welcome back.
It is Eric Erikson, In for Rush Limbaugh, this open line Friday.
We should get back to the phones.
How about Riley and Wanatche Washington?
Did I say it right?
When Achei, all righty.
How are you?
Oh, not too bad.
How are you doing, Eric?
I'm doing well.
Very good.
Merry Christmas to you.
You two.
I have a comment about the young lady that was talking about Sony.
Yes.
Okay, Riley, I I gotta ask, and I'm sorry, but I need to ask.
How old are you?
How old am I?
Sixty.
Okay, she was older than you.
Okay, she's all right.
Go on, Riley.
Okay.
People that don't pay attention are young.
There you go.
She can be 70.
She's still young because she's not paying attention.
The attention is between 60 and 50 people in North Korea may have the internet.
Do you think they really care what Sony was doing?
They didn't even know what Sony was doing until Sony made it national news over here.
National news, not the Fox News Network.
It's everybody else's garbage that's out there.
The same people that put Obama in office that put Sony rich.
Because Sony created this movie, went into debt.
I'm standing out in front of a movie theater that in four years is lucky to get 20 cars in the parking lot.
Whenever they go to show a movie.
Last night, double feature.
They filmed three parking lots.
Okay.
Do we have proof that Sony was even hacked?
Well, okay.
See, I think we have proof that that Sony was hacked, because I guarantee you that Sony would not be itself releasing all of the negative emails about Angelina Jolie.
Uh I don't the the Sony president would not allow the release of her emails uh where she joked about which movies she should ask the president if he's a fan of.
See, l let's let's accept that Sony was hacked.
Now we can then argue who hacked them, and there are people who say North Korea couldn't have done it.
I think the North Koreans could do it.
They can build themselves a nuclear bomb.
They can build the they can find themselves some hackers.
Although a number of people have speculated that it could have been the North Koreans with backing from China, uh maybe some others, you know, there are people in Japan unhappy with the unbroken movie.
They're they're very upset the way it portrays Japan, denying that the Japanese uh behaved that way in World War II.
I I'm willing to go with Sony was hacked, and I'm willing to go with the fact that the North Koreans were behind it.
Well, I'm not really sure of that because until they come out talking about what this movie was and that they were hacked, most of America didn't even know this movie existed.
So why would another country know?
Well, yeah, most of America doesn't know because we don't pay attention to Hollywood, but but Kim Jong ung or whatever his name is, he fixates on the way he's portrayed everywhere because he's the man god of North Korea.
So you and I could care less what a bunch of liberals in Hollywood do, but I assure you that the North Korean dictator wants to be portrayed as flatteringly as possible, and he's probably got a Google alert on himself.
We're not too far away from that ourselves with what we got in office.
I tell you, you know, Hollywood would never portray Barack Obama in the way they portrayed I mean the North Korean dictator, I suspect he will probably long term get better favorable coverage from Hollywood than Ronald Reagan ever will.
But Barack Obama himself, no.
In fact, I hear that because you know that they remade Exodus, the Ten Commandments.
I saw it.
It was an okay movie.
I wasn't offended.
My faith wasn't offended, it wasn't that great.
But I I hear that they're also going to remake the greatest story ever told, and they're just gonna cast Barack Obama as Jesus.
In fact, instead of calling him Jesus, they're going to call him Barack Obama.
Just get right to the way Hollywood feels.
I mean, honestly.
Because the release of the Son of God.
That that was just a remake.
It had already been released five years earlier.
Yeah.
The Son of God.
I I didn't see the Son of God movie.
Is that the Roma Downey produced movie?
Yeah, in any of it, you know, honestly, the Hollywood was really, really shocked yesterday when they woke up and they heard that millions of Americans were celebrating the birth of their savior who was born of a virgin, and it was that it was a white baby in the crib.
They they thought it was about Barack Obama's birth, and they were just absol I mean, Hollywood was stunned.
That's why the New York Times is so outraged by the Christmas season that that's probably why the pro-choice activists in the Vatican had to steal the baby Jesus from the manger, because they all thought it was a holiday about Barack Obama, and it wasn't.
I i the level of hagiography in Hollywood towards that guy is just unbelievably stunning to me.
I mean, they they they really worship Barack Obama there like Gwyneth Paltro, what's her name?
How much she loves Barack Obama.
You and I both know that when Barack Obama leaves office, within ten years, there will be movie after movie about what a courageous God King Barack Obama was.
They will remake Exodus and and it will be Barack Obama parting the Red Sea.
They will remake the greatest story ever told, and it will be Barack Obama on the cross.
Actually, it'll be us on the cross.
We all have to die for Barack Obama sins, not the other way around.
But they'll they'll rewrite that one too.
They'll remake the nativity and it'll be Barack Obama's mother giving birth to Barack Obama, fittingly ri writing the donkey, the symbol of the Democratic Party, to Bethlehem to give birth to Barack Obama to save us all from our sins.
Hollywood will do these sorts of things because they are in love with Barack Obama.
I You know, I remember back when Hollywood superstars were Republicans.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Amy Pascals, yeah, she she she loves Barack Obama.
She raised money for him.
Privately, she's Yes.
Oh yeah, cracking all the Look, behind the scenes, uh Hollywood, there are a bunch of contemptible people, and the emails expose how contemptible they are.
Uh they're contemptible even of Barack Obama himself because he's not one of them.
But given the choice between Barack Obama and anyone else, they he's a he's a changing life voice life force, snerdly.
Changing life force, according to those people.
We'll be back.
I've stumbled into controversy accidentally, apparently.
People are tweeting me angrily that North Korea was not responsible for hacking Sony.
Okay.
Let's say it was a North Korea.
I I guarantee you that the head of Sony Pictures did not want her emails about Barack Obama out in the public.
And I guarantee you, she didn't want her emails about Angelina Jolie out in public.
Because Angeline Jolie, she's just bank.
My wife is a huge Angelina Jolie fan.
I am too, for that matter.
Um gorgeous, and she's a great actress, and I'm looking forward to this unbroken movie.
I guarantee you, Sony didn't want that stuff in public.
So I I'm willing to accept that Sony was hacked if you want to debate who did it, okay, but I don't think we can say they weren't hacked.
Randomly.
I've got a random stack of stuff here before I get back to phone calls.
Let me reach over and get this.
This is uh Michael Schmidt, the New York Times, uh, posted this, I guess late yesterday, it was on Drudge about the non-secret service people who drive in presidential motorcades.
Yeah, yeah.
So I was back in ninety-six, the Dole Kemp campaign, uh, Kemp had become the vice presidential nominee, and they were coming through Macon, Georgia in ninety six.
I was the chairman of the College of Republicans at Mercer University, and they needed people for the motorcade.
So they went to the local Republican Party, the local Republican Party came to me, my roommate and I, Brian and I, we were in the motorcade.
I was the lead minivan, and it was a minivan behind the limo for Jack Hemp.
Now he was a vice presidential candidate.
He wasn't the vice president or president, but still, Secret Service protection, he was the nominee.
Apparently it was Ed Fulner, formerly the president of the Heritage Foundation, in the back seat with me.
And I was driving them around.
I'll never forget my roommate.
Roped him into this motorcade.
He comes up to me, taps on the window, roll the window down, and he looks at me, says, So, so this Kemp guy, this is pretty impressive.
What's he running for?
No politics.
And then my my now wife, uh, she was was uh a former roommate's uh fiance's roommate, if you can keep track of that.
My wife and I are friends at the time, and I'm calling her all excited about this, and then she's wondering why you got a campaign with Secret Service to be the vice president of the university we're part of.
My friends in college, I was the only one who was in the politics.
Now the the point of telling you that story is this New York Times story, the the reporter is clearly aghast that college students and and non-secret service people participate in motorcades.
Really what it is if you get into it is reporters are driven around in these motorcades.
The pool reporter, he's in one of the cars, and they're just horrified that a non-secret service, non-trained professional is driving around people in motorcades.
They have no sense of history.
This is going on forever.
I put this up on on my Facebook account last night mentioning I'd driven in the Kemp motorcade and had a bunch of people reply back that they had been in George Bush's motorcade one time or Dick Cheney or Bill Clinton, and it's been done forever.
But it it just never ceases to amaze me.
How the media has no sense of history.
The Yeah, yes, yeah, maybe so.
They they would like I I did get the Glock for Christmas.
Now I can be armed if I I'm sure the Secret Service would love that.
But just the problem covering politics, this story highlights so well, is that reporters have no sense of history.
History for them begun, uh began the moment they got into it and started paying attention to it.
For many of the major voices in the media now, history for them began on the steps of the Supreme Court at the end of the year 2000 with Bush versus Gore.
For younger reporters getting in, history for them began with their first thigh sweats when Barack Obama came out in favor of hope and change, and they decided to get into it.
Plus, you've got all these young liberals from left-wing sites who are now members of the quote unquote mainstream media out there who have zero sense of history.
Liberals, Jonah Goldberg in his great book, Liberal Fascism, points out how the left never has to worry about history, never remembers history.
It's always new to them.
That's why they keep repeating the same failed bad ideas over and over again when they get into politics.
They they can't govern because they don't have their sense of history.
Look at this de Blasio or de Blasio stuff in New York City and the president on race and riots and gunning down cops.
I was talking to a reporter last week and said this is Rose Pierre.
He he emboldened the people in the French Revolution, started the reign of terror, and wound up losing his head to the very revolution he's helped start.
They had no idea what I was talking about.
History continues to repeat itself as if it's new to these people.
All right.
I've talked enough.
Let's go back to the phones.
Open line Friday here on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 800-282-2882, Bart in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Eric.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
I'm smaller than what the requirements are for Obamacare.
But me personally and my family's been forced into Obamacare and seen the uh rate increases.
And when I look at the statistics that, you know, sixty percent of the population are eligible for vouchers to offset the costs.
Um I am I what you would be being called economically discriminated against because of my you know economic status.
Well, probably so.
Yeah.
You know, this is one of the things that's always as struck me uh growing up in particular for students and student loans, although of course the left would change it and destroy the system altogether.
But it was my parents' income that was taken into consideration when I was a student applying for student loans, not my income.
I mean, I'm the one who's going to be footing the bill for these things, but they wanted my parents' income.
And now you you've got Obamacare and the way they factor in income for people as well.
You know, one of the things that the left continually forgets, one of the things a lot of people in Washington continue to forget, and uh Bart, you may be in the situation, uh I know plenty of people who are, is that you may have income that puts you outside the classification for subsidies, but then how many people are you taking care of?
Your family, maybe your your parents or your wife's parents or uh kids with needs or paying for college tuition for kids so they don't have to take student loans, and the government ignores that completely.
And meanwhile, you've got someone else out there who actually probably could stand to work a second job and could do the second job, but they're sitting out there so they don't have to work and getting all the subsidies that would make life easier for you.
Yeah.
I feel everybody's yelling they're being discriminated against these days, but you know, a lot of the middle class uh folks, you know, are probably the most heavily discriminated against uh in the nation, you know, today.
Yeah, you know, there was a liberal economist who was trying to prove how awesome Obamacare is.
He put out a chart a couple of weeks ago showing that the income of the poorest of the poor has gone up thanks to Obamacare, and that it it's only had had marginal impact on the richest of the rich.
But you know who's hurt the most by Obamacare?
According to his own chart, and he of course had to walk it all back and try to deny it, but his chart proved it.
The people who are hurt worst by Obamacare are the lower middle class, the the thirty thousand forty thousand dollar income year people, their income has gone down the most because of Obamacare, and who's getting it?
The poorest of the poor are the ones getting their money.
So i the left has made it more and more difficult to get into the middle class, and once you're in the middle class now, they've made it harder and harder for you to stay there because the left thinks that they should subsidize you and keep you comfortable.
The the very idea, the very American idea that you should be able to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get ahead is anathema to the left.
They don't like that idea.
They would rather subsidize you where you are and try to keep you happy and on the government dole that than ever give you the idea that you might be able to climb off the social safety net and improve yourself without the help of government.
This takes us by the way, Bart, it takes us completely full circle through the first hour of the program where we were talking about the Democrats and their 2012 convention where the government is the only thing we all belong to.
We're only a we're all a part of it.
They want us all on the sa social safety net, dependent on the federal government for our own well-being and benefit.
And people like you, Bart, small business owners.
Well, you're you're just you disrupt the system by daring to try to get ahead.
There are people ahead of you in line who hold patents and have lobbyists who they can't have you competing with them and improving yourself and the life of your family because then I mean competition's a bad thing.
It's too capitalist.
That's where the Democratic philosophy collapses around the middle class.
The middle class has been hurt more by Barack Obama than any other group in America, and yet the Democrats still go out with this populist rhetoric, Elizabeth Warren-esque rhetoric on how they're going to help the middle class.
Apparently, we've got a we gotta hurt the patients to heal the patients.
We've got to hurt the middle class to help the middle class in Barack Obama's America and Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton's America for that matter.
Eric Erickson in for rush.
Welcome back, Eric Euriksen here.
And uh, this is the Rush Limbaugh show.
I I I almost gave out my own show.
I was like, oh, we're at the end of the day.
I've been surfing the Pioneer Woman's website for recipes.
I'm hungry, ready to go cook.
I cook when I'm not talking politics.
What?
What?
I look I've I've got so much stuff here.
Certainly giving me a hard time.
Look, in my my off days, I like to cook.
And no, I don't wear an apron.
You hush.
I got my producer in here who who's nodding along.
Yes, I I do not wear an apron.
I I do cook, though.
I grill.
I got this giant grill with the I do.
I grill, I bake, I make gumbo.
I'm telling you.
Yeah, I do.
My wife is my my wife is I make homemade cinnamon rolls that will rock your world.
My kids love them.
I'm not afraid to admit that I bake and cook and grill.
Yes, I actually do make quiche.
I make a fantastic one with bacon and sausage and ham.
It's it's a total total meat fest, but fantastic stuff.
Yes, it is it is manly quiche.
It is.
Hush, snurdly.
Hush.
And my grill has a 50-pound rotisserie on it.
Put a big slab of meat on there and and you're good to go.
Okay.
I'm I'm moving on now.
I can feel myself turning red in the face, embarrassed by Snurley calling in my man card.
I'm going back to the phones now.
To David in Jackson, Michigan, who will rescue me here on the EIB network.
Eric, thanks for taking my call.
Sure.
You do not have to be embarrassed by quiche.
Thank you.
You hear that, Snerdly?
I've had manly quiche made all kinds of different ways, and I love it.
There you go.
Both of our man cards are getting revoked by Snerdley here.
Calling.
You didn't call the trade recipe, so.
No, I can't give that up.
The 2016 fielder, you're excited about it, huh?
Calling from Jackson County, Michigan, the true birthplace of the Republican Party.
All right.
Under the oaks.
First in Franklin in Jackson, Michigan.
You're you're right about that.
1854, I believe it was.
Okay.
Well, they had such a big crowd, they had to move it from the town hall out under the oaks.
It was a hot day.
And Jackson County, which is I'm technically in Hilldale County right now, which is about 50 yards away from Jackson County.
All right, but we didn't we're not here to talk about Jackson County now, David.
We're running out of time, I'm afraid, so I gotta rush you along.
Our high quality team of candidates for Republican nomination.
One of them's gonna win, Eric.
Yes, I believe they are.
Wait.
I cannot well, I'm a little bit up in the air about it, but there's several that will be on the team to get our United States back on track.
I David am a firm believer that the odds are with the Republicans, and I I kind of laugh and smirk.
Like the night of the 2014 election, I was I was online, and I saw a lot of left-wing zealots say, Oh, well, you may have this year, but 2016 will be different.
Twenty sixteen will win.
We're still in charge.
The Democrats have done a very good job blowing up their coalition.
They've gone so far left because they're convinced that the nation has moved with them when it hasn't, uh, that they're sabotaging themselves.
It is very hard for a president's party to win a third term, whoever the Democrat nominee is.
Here's the thing.
This is the winning coalition for 2008 and 2012.
It's Barack Obama's coalition.
In fact, the Associated Press Today, article I talked about in the first hour.
Uh, can the Republicans break up Obama's coalition?
And that's just it.
It is Obama's coalition.
It is not the Democratic Party coalition.
It is Barack Obama's coalition, and they will have to fight each other over it.
I'm still not convinced Hillary Clinton's going to run.
I'm in the minority on this.
All of the news articles are about Hillary Clinton running.
I'm kind of my theory right now is that Hillary is is the human shield for the Democratic Party, for lack of a better metaphor to use.
She's the one taking all the slings and arrows from the GOP, so Elizabeth Warren or Deval Patrick or someone else can jump out from behind her and then try to race to the finish line when Hillary's been undone by the Republicans.
I'm not sure she's gonna run.
Even if she does, she can't run away from Barack Obama's record.
In fact, she's doing her best now to embrace it.
What's that gonna do for her when it comes to 2016?
The press can champion all they want, Barack Obama's poll numbers going up to forty-eight percent.
It's not going to do him any good by the time we get to 2016.
They have such short memories.
And whoever runs, they're going to be running on defense, defending the legacy of a president everyone will be ready to get rid of by the time 2016 comes around.
That makes it very difficult for them.
And we have a much deeper bench on our side of candidates who are coming up from the states, not from Washington, D.C., a place no one likes.
Hillary Clinton, I dare her to try to run against Washington, D.C. She's a creature of it.
Eric Erikson in for Rush.
We'll be right back.
If you ever wondered what the guests hosts do during break on the Rush Limbaugh show, we we trade quips and barbs with Bo Snerdley, who's trying to give me the business for making quiche, but I I make a very manly quiche.
We've been discussing cooking and recipes and whatnot.
I hope you guys had a very merry Christmas, by the way.
Remember, there are twelve days of Christmas.
My lights will actually my lights won't be on all twelve days.
I've been lying when I say that.
I should confess here at the end of the program that I'm in seminary of all things.
I decided I spend so much time these days talking about culture and faith issues and whatnot on my own show and at Red State.
I should at least go get some education about the Bible and whatnot.
And so I I start my winter semester and I'm gonna be gone, so I'm gonna have to take the at least turn the lights off.
I may just leave the lights up on the trees just to make my wife very mad.
She would get very mad at me for doing that.
And if you haven't gone out to see the interview, don't.
There's a story from where is this?
The Hill.
I thought it was from the Huffington Post.
Movie critics say the controversy surrounding the interview is much more interesting than the movie itself.
It's getting less than a 50% review on Rotten Tomatoes.
The critics give it a 32% positive rating.
So it could be that that Gloria is right.
Maybe Sony decided to sabotage itself to get us to go see this movie.
That in and of itself could be the plot of a movie.
Kind of like what the mouse that roared, the little country that invades the United States, thinking we'd take care of them once we beat them and they wound up winning.
This could all be some elaborate version of the mouse that roared.
In any event, I am out of time here on the Rush Limbo program.
Eric Erickson, Mark Belling will be in for rush on Monday.
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