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RUSH: Rusty in Waterford, Michigan. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. How are you doing today? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos from a longtime listener.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First, I want to say I picked up your book after Thanksgiving, and I\u2019m a big Vince Flynn fan<\/a>, and I absolutely love the book. I thought it was very entertaining read. I\u2019ve got my kids reading it, and I\u2019m just very impressed that you were able to pull that together. <\/line><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/map>\n<\/line>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s wonderful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Talk about risk-takers.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It just occurred to me when I was listening to that Wolf Blitzer sound bite that you played a few minutes ago, that I\u2019ve listened to your show a long time. I\u2019ve never been an independent. I\u2019ve always made up my mind. I think I came out of the birth canal as a conservative, so I don\u2019t understand the independent mentality, and I\u2019m having a hard time understandings the liberal mentality now because of that quote. I\u2019ve always thought that the liberal mind-set was completely devious — you know, they\u2019re smarter than us and that\u2019s why they\u2019re able to win — but that Wolf Blitzer clip got me thinking. Are they? Do they think they\u2019re being sincere and open reminded and bipartisan?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a good question. What he\u2019s asking me is did Wolf Blitzer really mean what he said about Christie\u2019s speech being really great, or is he just trying to deceive everybody? That\u2019s a great question, but I don\u2019t have time to answer it right now. I\u2019ll do that in the monologue segment of the next hour.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, we had a caller who heard the Wolf Blitzer sound bite praising the Christie speech. The caller admitted that he\u2019s always viewed liberals as filled with deceit, which I understand. So his pregunta was, “Is Wolf trying to deceive us? Is Wolf, by praising the Christie speech, trying to get a bunch of people to support him, knowing he can\u2019t win?” That was the question. Before I explain it, let\u2019s go back and listen to what Wolf said. <\/p>\n

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He\u2019s following a Gloria Borger comment on CNN. This is after Christie\u2019s inaugural speech today<\/a>. Gloria Borger made a big deal about how Christie is in trouble. He\u2019s losing independents left and right. It\u2019s looking hopeless. There are other Drive-By Media types claiming that moneyed Republican donors are losing interest in Christie, and so she was saying he\u2019s in big trouble, and Wolf came in and said (summarized), “You know, that\u2019s just a shame, because, man, what a speech! What a great speech!” <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s exactly what he said… <\/p>\n

(replaying of sound bite) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So here you have an accredited member of the Drive-By Media praising a speech made by a Republican. The question is: “Is he deceiving us or does he really believe it?” In Wolf Blitzer\u2019s case, here\u2019s the answer to the question: Wolf believes it. I don\u2019t think that Wolf engages in deceit. However, Wolf does believe that Republicans are the cliches. He believes the cliches — they\u2019re bigots, they\u2019re hated, they\u2019re extremists — and thus Wolf believes that Republicans have to prove they\u2019re not. <\/p>\n

Republicans have to prove that they are willing to work with Democrats. Republicans have to prove that they are willing to compromise with Democrats. Republicans have to prove that they are not closed-minded bigots. Republicans have to prove that they are not haters. So in Wolf\u2019s worldview, Christie did all that. He thinks that Christie, within that framework, hit a home run. Now, Wolf does not want Christie to be president. <\/p>\n

He just thinks this is what Republicans have to do to change in order to be more liked. Because in Wolf\u2019s world, being accepted by the media is the coin of the realm, and Christie — with that speech — was on the way to accomplishing that if it weren\u2019t for this cloud of scandal hanging over him. But Wolf was not praising Christie when he didn\u2019t believe it, in order to convince people to support Christie because Wolf knows Christie can\u2019t win. <\/p>\n

Wolf believes that the Republicans\u2019 big problem is that Hispanics hate them, and that women hate them (and that they\u2019re justified in it), and that young people hate them, and that blacks hate them, and that single women hate them, and that gays hate them. So anything a Republican can do that would dispel that notion, Wolf thinks the Republican has gained ground. That\u2019s my interpretation of Wolf praising Christie.<\/p>\n

You have to understand the starting point for something like this. You have to understand from Wolf\u2019s standpoint, what does a Republican have to do to prove he\u2019s not like all the other Republicans? Christie, in his mind, did it here. Because in Wolf\u2019s worldview, like everybody else in the media, most of the Republicans, the way they naturally are, can\u2019t win and won\u2019t win. They are always gonna be hated and disliked and suspected and all of that.<\/line><\/p>\n

Christie? Now, there\u2019s a guy!<\/p>\n

The short version is Christie sounded more like a Democrat than most Republican, in Wolf\u2019s view. See, Wolf also has a totally distorted, convoluted view of the Democrats. He also believes the cliches about them, that they are loved by everybody — and that they, in turn, love everybody — and that they\u2019re open-minded and that they\u2019re not partisan, and they\u2019re not mean, and that they\u2019re not political, and they\u2019re not even ideological. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not liberals.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re just decent, good people, and that\u2019s what Republicans have to become — and Christie, he was on the way! But Wolf was not trying to deceive you. Now, he may be unique in that regard. I know him a little bit, and I don\u2019t think that that would be in any away an attitude that would influence or shape his opinion or reaction to something. But he is locked squarely in the cliches that are attached to members of both parties. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me give you the short version of the analysis of Wolf Blitzer praising Christie\u2019s speech. It\u2019s real simple. In Wolf Blitzer\u2019s worldview the Republicans have to prove they are not X: Racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, mean, extreme, partisan. The Democrats don\u2019t have to prove anything because they are ideal. The Democrats are not perfect, but they\u2019re not racist, they\u2019re not mean, they\u2019re not sexist, they\u2019re not bigoted, they\u2019re not homophobic, they\u2019re none of that. Republicans are all of that, and they have to prove that they\u2019re not. And that\u2019s all Wolf was saying, that in his view Christie went a long way toward proving or establishing that he\u2019s not a real Republican. <\/p>\n

But the Democrats, they don\u2019t have to prove anything ever. They just are. You\u2019ll notice, for example, there are never any clouds of scandal hovering over Hillary. No matter that four people died on her watch at Benghazi when she\u2019s secretary of state. She wasn\u2019t there. It\u2019s not a problem. There was no scandal. Christie has to prove that he is not partisan. Christie has to prove that he is bipartisan. It is assumed by people like Wolf that the Democrats are already bipartisan and open-minded and willing to compromise and work with anybody, as Obama says. He\u2019ll work with anybody that\u2019s got a good idea. And Wolf believes that. <\/p>\n

Wolf believes the Republicans won\u2019t work with anybody, \u2019cause they\u2019re partisan, racist, sexist, bigots. He might not think they\u2019re racists, but bigots, extremist, mean, and all that, and so in his view Christie went a long way to proving he\u2019s not a real Republican. Ergo, Christie got praised, pure and simple. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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