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RUSH: Well, this is a lot of fun to watch. Everything I predicted yesterday about how the Drive-By Media would react to the John Kerry... Well, they haven't done one thing yet, but everything else I predicted, they did, for hours and hours last night, and they continued for more hours this morning, parsing Kerry's words, attempting to explain what he really meant. Greetings, my friends, and welcome. You are tuned to the most listened to radio talk show in America, this, the Rush Limbaugh program, and it's the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. As usual, it's a thrill and delight to have you with us. Welcome to those of you watching on the Dittocam today at RushLimbaugh.com. The telephone number, if you'd like to join us, is 800-282-2882, and if you want to send an e-mail, the address is
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I did my interview with President Bush this morning. It runs about 21 minutes. We did it at 10:45 Eastern Time and we're going to air it in two parts at 12:33, about 25 minutes from now. It'll be the second half hour of this hour. The bottom of this hour is when we will do that. Ladies and gentlemen, I have just a real simple question here. We got Harold Ford demanding Kerry apologize. We got the guy out in Montana running against Conrad Burns demanding that Kerry apologize. All of Kerry's appearances have been canceled today. Either he canceled them or the Democrats for whom he was appearing have canceled them. My question is this: Why are all the liberals running away from John Kerry? What he said is what they believe. I mean, it's nothing new.
This is nothing new from Kerry, and it's nothing new from the Democrats. So why in the world are they running away from it? I did note that they did send Jack Murtha out there today. They're doing everything they can to keep this alive. Kerry is making radio appearances today. The Democrats say, "Just shut up. Just go away," but that's what they believe. Why in the world are they running away from John Kerry? This is what they say they believe. They must not want you to know this is what they believe, which is I guess the answer to my question.
Let's listen to some of the coverage. It's hilarious. I told you yesterday that the media would start circling the wagons and start telling us what he really meant, what he really meant to say. That prophecy came true early yesterday afternoon, during the course of this program it started to come true. It got into full speed ahead mode last night. The only thing they haven't done is go out there and find a military family that would fit John Kerry's description of them as basically idiots. Now, everybody knows where this comes from. You know, the liberals have had a disdain for the US military anyway. Look at Kerry.
He epitomizes the modern day liberal, a wealthy Brahman-type aristocrat who is comfortable in his home and his office and his surroundings and doesn't want to upset that. You have to ask of liberals, "What is it? Is there anything? What is it that you are willing to fight for to preserve that involves the US military? What will you fight for to defend? What will you fight for to preserve? We know that you will send the US military around the world essentially on Meals on Wheels missions. We know you'll send the military around to pass around foodstuffs and so forth, but what will you defend? What is important enough for you to defend?" These people have a view of the US military that was formed in the sixties, as is much of their current thinking today.
Back in the sixties, as you know, there was a draft, and if you could get into college for much of the Vietnam War draft, you could get a college deferment. Those that couldn't get into college or didn't get into college were then left for the pool to be drafted, and the Democrats assumed that those were the idiots of America. If you don't go to college, if you can't get into college, you're a lamebrain, and that's who ended up in the US military, and that's their view of it today. They have no clue. They have not modernized at all. Their playbook is still as old today as it was 20 years ago and 40 years ago. Their world view is the same.
Their view of American society and American culture, the American economy, is the same. It has not modernized at all. Their view of voters is the same, arrogant condescension. John Kerry was simply telling us what he really thinks the night before yesterday. John Kerry was actually telling us what Democrats think. They were just desperate to hush this up. I knew these kooks couldn't be suppressed all the way through the election. You have this clown that tried to disrupt the George Allen appearance yesterday, a kook left wing blogger whose hero is Michael Moore. Then you had this lawyer up in Maine who was the guy who leaked back in 2000 George Bush's DUI when he was a kid, dresses up at Osama bin Laden and acts as though he's armed to the gills, starts running around and he gets arrested.
The Democrats have done everything they can to suppress their kooks, including Pelosi, who's a kook, and including Dingy Harry, who's a kook. These people have not been seen from in two weeks. Kerry has blown this. The Drive-By Media desperate to move on, to keep this story as short as possible, even going so far, as you will hear in mere moments, last night hoping that they will curtail this story and keep it to 24 hours. They will not succeed in this, and the reason is the American people are outraged. The American people have had it with the double standard. Trent Lott forced to resign after apologizing how many times for making a joke, quote, unquote, about Strom Thurmond. Here's John Kerry coming along, and the treatment is so obviously different.
The Democrats can ridicule. They can impugn. They can criticize. They can insult the men and women of the US military all day long, and nothing is said by their own people or the Drive-By Media. Well, if it was good enough for Trent Lott to resign, then it's good enough for John Kerry to resign, not just apologize -- and he hasn't even done that. (Kerry impression) "I'm not apologizing! I'm John Kerry, and I'm a man!" He's a buffoon, John Kerry is. Here's another thing. Folks, here he is, he's out there talking to Pasadena City College, and he is arrogant enough to tell these students at Pasadena City College what it takes to succeed. (paraphrased) "Yeah, you gotta go to school out there. You gotta get a degree. You gotta go to college. You'll be like me!" No, Senator Kerry. Everybody knows that to be like you, go out and find as many wealthy wives as you can -- widows or what have you -- and marry them and make their wealth yours. How come you didn't give them your blueprint for success? Instead you impugn them in the United States military. Here is what he said. This is Monday night at Pasadena City College, Democrat rally for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate out there, Phil Angelides.
KERRY: We're here to talk about education, but I want to say something before -- education, if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you -- you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
RUSH: Yeah. Here's what President Bush said yesterday, actually last night in Georgia at a rally for former Republican Congressman Matt Collins.
THE PRESIDENT: He said, "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." (Crowd booing.) The Senator's suggestion that the men and women of our military are somehow uneducated is insulting, and it is shameful. (Cheers and applause.) The members of the United States military are plenty smart, and they are plenty brave, and the senator from Massachusetts owes them an apology.
RUSH: One Democratic congressman said, "I guess Kerry wasn't content to blow it in '04. He wants to blow it in '06 as well." Now, could somebody tell me what the joke was? Kerry says he was telling a joke, and he left off a couple of words. What's funny about this? Would somebody tell me what the joke is? I don't even know what the joke was supposed to be. Yeah, the next line, "like President Bush" whatever. But what's the joke? Somebody tell me where is the humor, what is the joke? I mean, I know the guy is a sad sack, but I mean, you know, to me if it weren't for his varicose veins, he'd be totally colorless. Well, that and the Botox injections. I don't see where the humor is. One more bite here just to get you a flavor. This is a tortured Drive-By Media montage contorting itself, trying to explain exactly what I predicted, what Kerry really meant.
LESTER HOLT: He left out two words, "getting us" stuck in Iraq.
DIANE SAWYER: He meant to say, I think the words were, "If you don't, you get us stuck in Iraq."
JULIAN EPSTEIN: I think what he intended to say was that if you don't do your homework, you'll make bad decisions.
MORT KONDRACKE: He was saying that the only people who would be over there are people who don't have an education.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX: He meant to say if you don't study you'll end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq.
MATT LAUER: You're going to say, "Yeah, John Kerry meant to make a joke."
JEFF GREENFIELD: He was thinking he was going to make a clever joke about how if you are not smart enough you will get us stuck in Iraq.
JIM VANDEHEI: Kind of making it up and looking at his notes and probably screwed up.
CHIRIS MATTHEWS: Did he mean that Bush didn't have enough book learning.
TUCKER CARLSON: He meant to say Bush is a moron.
JAMES CARVILLE: "...you end up getting us in Iraq," by meaning that the president gave no thought to this war.
MARGIE OMERO: What he was supposed to say is getting us into the situation in Iraq.
ALAN COLMES: He was trying to say something about President Bush, awkwardly and clumsily.
RUSH: Yeah, he's awkward and clumsy whenever he talks about anything. But notice the contortions, notice the twists and turns and the pretzels that they put themselves in here to try to excuse this. What you still have at the end of the day is a dumkoff making jokes about the commander-in-chief in wartime and trying to come across as the smartest guy in the room. They're just covering for him. I told you this was going to happen. They're going to circle the wagons. Bush has a Harvard MBA as well as his degree from Yale. You can't buy those Harvard MBAs, influence, all that doesn't work. These people running around thinking they're smarter than everybody else. It's just classic who liberals are and the kind of people they are, and now they've been stung by it. Here's the Drive-By Media just desperate. Can you imagine them going out of their way to make sure I was not misunderstood in the Michael J. Fox flap? For nine days now they are continuing to spread distortions about me. They've chosen sides. Everybody knows this knows it. They don't get away with it anymore.
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RUSH: I was watching a little bit of the Tony Snow press conference, the White House press briefing, and wouldn't you know it, my name came up right out of the box, it seems. Some reporterette wanted to know why Kerry should apologize when I haven't. I haven't gotten Tony Snow's answer to this yet. Then the reporter started talking about how the Republicans are creating a diversion with this. Republicans are creating a diversion! If I'm not mistaken, it was Kerry who made the statement at Pasadena City College, and then it was Kerry who called this big press conference yesterday to be defiant and not apologize, and Republicans are using this to divert the story away from the Democrat agenda.
Now, the New York Times report on Kerry today. I should be so fortunate to have the New York Times report on me this way. The New York Times story line, action line on the Kerry story is this: "Bush attacks Kerry. It is a break from a bleak campaign, but it proves how pointless the attack is, because John Kerry is not running for office." Well, neither am I, and neither is George W. Bush, but more than that, where is it story in the New York Times today? It's on page 18 -- and, you know, Senator McCain doesn't even fit the action line of this story.
He's not even in it. This isn't a revisit of Bush-Kerry 2004. You might look at it that way. It's a 2006 debate between Kerry and McCain in one sense, but the notion here that Bush attacks Kerry on this is just mind-boggling. It's surreal to read the New York Times or watch the Drive-By Media and understand the lens through which they see things. It boggles the mind. Folks, you can go insane trying to follow it. You can go insane out of frustration trying to follow this. I'll give you an example. Chris Matthews last night spent four hours parsing what John Kerry really meant. Here he is last week discussing me.
MATTHEWS: There's an old expression: "When you're in a hole, stop digging." Is Rush Limbaugh in a hole there trying to rationalize what seemed a pretty wise-guy response the first time around. He's saying that the guy's off his meds, that's a phrase used in conversation as a kind of a joke. You don't usually say that about somebody who is seriously on meds who has Parkinson's disease.
JOHN HARRIS: It was below the belt.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RUSH: Now, four hours to parse John Kerry last night. They're on their ninth day of distorting and misrepresenting what I said in the whole Michael J. Fox flap. During a segment called "What Kerry Meant" -- they actually had a segment on CNN last night called "What Kerry Meant" -- a CNN reporterette slips up, Suzanne Malveaux, and admits that the media hopes this story goes away in a day.
MALVEAUX: We hope and we think that all of this is going to go away tomorrow, but we'll just have to wait and see.
ZAHN: Oh, I don't know whether we can count on that or not.
RUSH: I'm not taking this out of context, folks. That was Paula Zahn that had the rejoinder. I'm not taking this out of context. Play that again, Mike, audio sound bite number five, Suzanne Malveaux and Paula Zahn last night on CNN on a segment called "What Kerry Meant."
MALVEAUX: We hope and we think that all of this is going to go away tomorrow, but we'll just have to wait and see.
ZAHN: Oh, I don't know whether we can count on that or not.
RUSH: "I don't know whether we can count on that." Well, why hide it anymore. I don't even know if there's a slip. Should Suzanne Malveaux apologize for embarrassing CNN? Tim Russert says the Democrats are upset because they've "lost two news cycles" here that they could have used talking about Iraq. This is today with Matt Lauer on the Today Show, and Matt Lauer's question: "Has it done damage to John Kerry personally or might it have been done to some Democrat candidates running in the midterm elections?"
RUSSERT: A little bit of both, Matt. The Democrats are very unhappy because it's a distraction. It's two news cycles that they think could have been focused more on the president's management of the war rather than discussing the caliber of the troops. It may intensify Republican turnout. That's the Democratic concern or there may be a few independents who are still listening and may be swayed one way or the other. Basically, Matt, political analysts on both sides tell me they don't think it has a major impact, but it's two news cycles that could have been used talking about the president's management of Iraq and not John Kerry.
RUSH: Yeah, and that's why Suzanne Malveaux and the others hope that it goes away today. Now Senator Hillary Clinton has weighed in saying that Kerry's remarks were inappropriate. I have to ask the question again: Why are the liberals running away from Kerry and what he says -- and not just his comment at Pasadena City College about the troops being a bunch of idiots. He says what they believe. He's against the war. He thinks Bush is stupid. Bush is a hick. Bush is a frat boy cowboy. Bush is all these rotten things. The military is made up of a bunch of idiots. Michael Barone had a great phrase. He turned a great phrase yesterday on this. He said, "Democrats look at the military as one of two things: either victims or predators," and that is precisely how they have been portrayed by the likes of John Kerry.
They are murderers according to Jack Murtha. They are murderers. They are rapists. They wantonly kill innocent Iraqis in cold blood. They torture in our prisons. I mean, everybody and their uncle who has been paying attention to this knows full well that's what the Democratic Party view is of the US military, and liberals per se wherever you find them in this country, whatever party they claim to belong to. So my question is why are they running away from Kerry? What is it that Kerry did that so harmed the cause? Kerry defined the party position on this. He defined the party position as Dick Durbin has done, so why run away from it? I mean, I thought it was a big, winning election. I thought anti-war was going to launch Democrats to this massive new majority. By the way, have you seen Ned Lament is down like 12 points in Connecticut? Ned Lament, the anti-war candidate, is down by 12. Hmm.