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RUSH: Wildebeests — wildebeests<\/a>. That\u2019s what the Drive-By Media heard me say. No. I take it back. They did not hear me say it. They read in The Politico that I said it. Wildebeests. I compared the RINOs not defending Christie to wildebeests. They all found that amusing.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: I sit here and honestly, folks, I\u2019m surprised at the reaction on the Republican side to what is happening to Chris Christie. When that press conference was over yesterday, all of these opinion makers, or practically all, I mean, there\u2019s some exceptions to this. But all of the wise men, all of the wizards of smart said, “You know what, he handled it perfectly. Why, he was honest, we hope he was honest. He was right in there. He went out there and he nailed it. Christie was absolutely superb,” and they are now stunned that the media isn\u2019t letting go of it. <\/line><\/p>\n

These are Republicans who can\u2019t believe it. They thought Christie buried it yesterday. They thought Christie\u2019s press conference was just the greatest thing they\u2019d ever heard and he buried it and he ended it and they can\u2019t believe — and this is quite telling, folks. I mean, the Republican wise men are confused. After witnessing what happened to George W. Bush, after witnessing — pick your favorite Republican — after witnessing years and years and years of how they are treated, they actually thought Christie had buried this yesterday. And now they\u2019re wringing their hands and they don\u2019t quite know what to make of this. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re worried, “Maybe, does somebody know Christie was lying?” They thought Christie nailed it \u2019cause he came out and he told the truth and he fired a couple of people and he spent two hours with the media. I mean, he did it exactly right. Except, have you seen the statistic? In one day the media has already spent — well, I don\u2019t have the — it\u2019s a phenomenal comparison, the amount of time the media spent on Christie versus the IRS scandal. In one day, they have equaled what took place in 17 days or some such thing. That\u2019s not it. I have it here in the Stack. I\u2019ll get to it. But it\u2019s not a surprise to you and me how unbalanced the media coverage is. It\u2019s stunning to me, though, how surprised the Republican intelligentsia is over this. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Anyway, how are you, folks? I hope you had a great week and weekend coming up. It\u2019s Friday here at the EIB Network, which means Open Line Friday, which means not much different except when we go to the phones, there are few, if any, restrictions on callers. Monday through Thursday, the callers have to talk about something I care about. But on Friday we broom that requirement and open it up. Here\u2019s the phone number Fulbright on the program. 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Some of the Republican intelligentsia believe that Christie\u2019s biggest problem now is — wait for it — talk radio. Some Republicans actually think that the biggest problem Christie has is right here, talk radio. I\u2019m not the one, and nobody else I know on talk radio is spending all this time trying to destroy Christie. It is their buddies in the Drive-By Media who are trying to do that. It is their buddies who will not let go of this. It is their buddies who, you know, when Rahm Emanuel engages in typical Chicago thug behavior, they call it tough politics, sharp elbows. With Christie, they call him a bully and worse. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, this has been fascinating. After the Christie press conference it was just predictable. It\u2019s becoming predictable, and that\u2019s not a good thing. You can turn on… Well, Fox has always been unpredictable, but now they\u2019re starting to become predictable, and that\u2019s what MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC have always been. You knew what they were gonna do with Christie, and you know what\u2019s gonna happen on the Republican side. <\/p>\n

The Republican side take on the Christie press conference was that it was a slam-dunk home run. “Man, oh, man! This guy is the greatest leader, greatest potential leader the Republican Party has fielded in who knows how many years! You see what this guy did? He made mincemeat of the media, he told the truth, he fired a couple of people. He went out there, and he basically buried this thing.”<\/p>\n

They really thought that was gonna be the end of it.<\/p>\n

You could tell by looking at some of the post-press conference comments. I\u2019m not kidding you. I was looking at those comments, and I\u2019m… I don\u2019t know, folks. So much of this… How in the world do these learned inside-the-Beltway Republicans\/conservative media people still — and the Republican Party still — don\u2019t get it? They thought because of how well they wanted and thought Christie did yesterday, that that was gonna end it. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I\u2019m reading these comments some of them are making and I\u2019m hearing them, and I\u2019m in disbelief, because all afternoon all you had to do was turn on CNN and find out that yesterday was just the beginning, and they\u2019re not gonna stop until they fix it. They\u2019re not gonna stop until they have either gotten rid of or discredited Christie to their satisfaction. They\u2019ve got federal action investigations going on. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got this friend of his at the Port Authority who took the Fifth Amendment during a hearing in Trenton. That\u2019s got \u2019em all excited. There\u2019s no way they\u2019re gonna let this go, and there\u2019s no way… Letterman last night had Anderson Cooper on. The whole Letterman show last night — well, not the whole show, but I mean almost the whole show — just made mincemeat of Christie, just sliced and diced and threw him to the whales. I accidentally saw it while channel surfing around.<\/p>\n

I finished watching what I was watching, I was on Apple TV, and I switched back to DirecTV. For some reason it was on the CBS affiliate, maybe from the football game over the week, and there was Letterman. I don\u2019t watch Letterman, but there\u2019s Anderson Cooper and Letterman and they\u2019re talking about Christie, and I\u2019m remembering what I heard all these learned Republicans say about how Christie made a slam dunk yesterday and ended it and buried it — and they are just ripping Christie apart, and everywhere else in the Drive-By Media, the same thing. <\/p>\n

If you go to anything published, if you go to anything on the air, TV or radio, the left is just salivating now. And, in fact, Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner<\/a> and the Media Research Center did some studies, and they found out that the Big Three networks covered Christie\u2019s story at a rate of 17 times more coverage in one day than they covered Obama\u2019s IRS scandal in six months, just the three broadcast networks, their nightly newscasts and their cable affiliates. Seventeen times in one day, more coverage of Christie, and none of it favorable. Seventeen times more coverage than they gave the IRS scandal in six months. <\/p>\n

And all of these learned inside-the-Beltway Republican types who said that Christie hit a slam dunk and a grand slam and buried this and gave \u2019em what-for and this is the model for how you do it and all that, even they had a caveat, which is, he better be telling the truth when he said he didn\u2019t know. He\u2019d better be telling the truth when he said that he asked his staff for a report and they lied to him. He better be telling the truth that he had absolutely no knowledge of this in any way, shape, or manner. They\u2019ve attached a caveat to it, which — I mean, what does that mean? No, seriously. What does that mean? Take your pick. It doesn\u2019t matter the names. I mean, you want a name? I don\u2019t know that this guy said it, but just to make my point, Brit Hume. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say that Brit Hume was on Fox and praising Christie, grand slam. I don\u2019t know that it was Hume. Just throwing a name. Okay, let\u2019s say Dr. Krauthammer, pick a name, doesn\u2019t matter. Dr. Krauthammer, let\u2019s just assume, I don\u2019t know if he did or not — well, actually I do — praised Christie\u2019s performance to the hilt, slam dunk, model, this is how you do it. Spend as much time with the media as it takes, tell \u2019em what-for, get rid of it, sweep it, put it behind you and move on. Great leadership, classic illustration of how you do it. And then you say, “But it could all fall apart if he\u2019s not telling the truth.” <\/p>\n

Now, when whoever adds that caveat, what does that tell you, the viewer? Yeah, exactly. If they\u2019ve gotta throw in the caveat, “If he\u2019s not lying,” it means they don\u2019t know, either, if he\u2019s lying or not. Now, I don\u2019t want to get too fine with this, but if they are not sure after the two-hour presser that Christie was being honest, then why praise it to the hilt? No, I\u2019m not trying to stir anything up. I\u2019m just doing what I always do. Folks, I observe. I\u2019m a journalist, in a sense. I observe and I come here and I tell you what I saw, and I have unending curiosity. I ask questions about practically everything. That\u2019s how I learn. So that\u2019s all I\u2019m doing. I don\u2019t have to stir anything up. The Republican leadership, the establishment, they\u2019re all upset \u2019cause I compared \u2019em, the RINOs, to wildebeests. Of all the things I said yesterday, that\u2019s the take away. We got the sound bites coming up on that and we\u2019ll get to that and other details.<\/p>\n

But that is a startling stat. Seventeen times in one day, 17 times the coverage the media spent on Obama and the IRS scandal in six months. And the second part of the observation on the inside-the-Beltway Republican establishment types, after they said and thought that Christie hit a home run in the press conference, they were then shocked. They were surprised the coverage kept going. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what gets me. You know, maybe I\u2019m gonna have to give average, ordinary voters a pass for not figuring out the left. ‘Cause if our political people inside the Beltway still to this day cannot predict what the left is gonna do with a scandal like this, if they do not understand, if they really think that a Republican could go out and end a scandal with a press conference, it tells me that they still don\u2019t know the nature of the enemy and what we\u2019re really up against. And that\u2019s a shocking but true, sad reality. <\/p>\n

All right. A brief time-out. Couple more things on the economy, and then your calls mixed in with the audio sound bite roster on — what are they calling it, Lanegate? Christiegate? What\u2019s the name of this scandal? Bridgegate. That\u2019s what it is. Bridgegate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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