{"id":12900,"date":"2013-03-21T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:57:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-21T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:57:48","slug":"why_dr_benjamin_carson_scares_the_left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/21\/why_dr_benjamin_carson_scares_the_left\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Dr. Benjamin Carson Scares the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Some people were asking me about Ben Carson last night. And I said, “Let me tell you what his secret is. People are not able to detect an agenda when Ben Carson speaks. That\u2019s the magic.” And it\u2019s the same thing with Obama. Obama does not appear to have an agenda. At least people don\u2019t attach an agenda to him. What that means is, people are not, therefore, automatically predisposed to being wary. People who have agendas, and those agendas are known, will automatically have people suspicious of them. Because what is an agenda? It means many things to many people. <\/p>\n

When you get to the low-information crowd, an agenda is a design, a plan you have for them and about them over which they may not have any control. They\u2019re very suspicious of agendas. That\u2019s why anybody that has one is automatically a suspect. It\u2019s just human nature. It\u2019s the way things exist in the country and in our culture today. It hasn\u2019t always been this way, but it is now. <\/p>\n

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Well, Dr. Carson is able to make a speech, to appear at the National Prayer Breakfast, to be a guest on a TV show, to tell you what he thinks, and even tells you the way he thinks things should be. But nobody thinks that he\u2019s got an agenda. So there\u2019s no grand design. There\u2019s no perception that he wants to force people to do something. And that\u2019s what many people think of as an agenda. And that, I think, is one of Obama\u2019s secret techniques. He gets away with not having an agenda. And to the extent that he does have an agenda, it\u2019s fighting these mysterious, powerful forces that are destroying everything. And what\u2019s ironic about this is that there hasn\u2019t been a president in a hundred years who\u2019s had this kind of naked desire to subjugate people and to control them. And yet the low-information crowd that supports Obama, that\u2019s the last thing they think about him. <\/p>\n

You stop and think about this and it\u2019ll make sense to you. It\u2019s why Benjamin Carson is universally popular right now. It\u2019s because he doesn\u2019t appear to have an agenda. And in order for him to maintain that position, he\u2019s making it clear to anybody that he\u2019s not a Republican, not a conservative. If anything, he\u2019s an independent. He wants it known that he\u2019s critical of people from both parties, or all five parties, however many parties there are, he\u2019s critical of all of them. As opposed to me. I am, obviously, associated with an agenda, and I don\u2019t hide behind it. I\u2019m not afraid of having an agenda. <\/p>\n