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RUSH: When I got home yesterday, I started immediately into show prep and no matter where I went everywhere on the Internet… I even turned on cable news. I don\u2019t do that much anymore \u2019cause it\u2019s on all day during the program. I kept seeing that Obama was on “a charm offensive.” Everywhere I said, “What is this? What did I miss? What charm offensive? There\u2019s no such thing! He\u2019s not a charming guy.”<\/p>\n

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So we dug deep, folks, and do you remember the media and gravitas?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s happened again.<\/p>\n

“Charm offensive” is the latest media thing.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to the Grooveyard of Forgotten sound bites. This is July of 2000. This is what happened after George W. Bush decided that Dick Cheney — he hired Cheney to do his search for a vice presidential nominee, candidate, a running mate. And after not very long, Bush said, “You know what, to hell with this. I\u2019m just gonna ask Cheney. Cheney is the right guy.” And the media had a reaction, and it was identical. Every media person. It didn\u2019t matter. Every Democrat, every media person all had the same one-word reaction. <\/p>\n

Now, this is 13 years ago, and when we played this at first it was to illustrate how there is no original thinking, and somehow a reaction to a Republican or conservative event is established, and they all fall in line and repeat it. And that word back then was “gravitas.” I know you\u2019ve been listening for a long time, but as I said last week, folks, please indulge us here. I mean, indulge me. There\u2019s no “us” here; it\u2019s me. We have people tuning in for the first time every day to this program. It\u2019s a neat balancing act here to move the program forward and not bore those of you who know some of the things I\u2019m going to repeat for the new arrivals. I appreciate you being patient. Here is how this sounded in 2000. This is in July.<\/p>\n

AL HUNT: He meets all of George W.\u2019s weaknesses, lack of gravitas.<\/p>\n

JUAN WILLIAMS: We see the son, who is seeking some gravitas.<\/p>\n

CLAIRE SHIPMAN: They were looking at candidates with gravitas.<\/p>\n

STEVE ROBERTS: But he has the gravitas and you can sum it up in one word, stature.<\/p>\n

VIC FAZIO: It may go to the gravitas.<\/p>\n

JEFF GREENFIELD: We\u2019re to use the favorite phrase, gravitas.<\/p>\n

LESTER HOLT: This is a vice president who bought gravitas.<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: This will give some gravitas, add some credibility.<\/p>\n

ED ROLLINS: I think the gravitas that Cheney brought to the ticket.<\/p>\n

JONATHAN ALTER: What he gets is gravitas, a sense of weight.<\/p>\n

BOB KERREY: He does not need anybody to give him gravitas.<\/p>\n

MARGARET CARLSON: It means that, you know, gravitas.<\/p>\n

MIKE MCCURRY: I think he also needs some gravitas.<\/p>\n

SAM DONALDSON: To give gravitas.<\/p>\n

ELEANOR CLIFT: Well, he brings gravitas.<\/p>\n

WALTER ISAACSON: He does seem to bring some gravitas.<\/p>\n

AL HUNT: It\u00c2\u2019s called gravitas.<\/p>\n

MARK SHIELDS: A little gravitas!<\/p>\n

JUDY WOODRUFF: You certainly have gravitas tonight.<\/p>\n

SAM DONALDSON: He displayed tonight a certain gravitas.<\/p>\n

MARIO CUOMO: I think gravitas is the word, Unfortunately for the Governor you can\u00c2\u2019t graft gravitas. He has gravitas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was Mario “The Pious” there, Governor Cuomo of New York way back then. You heard them all describe Cheney\u2019s selection as bringing gravitas to the ticket. It was funny then, it\u2019s hilarious now, but it illustrates the groupthink. So I get home yesterday, and I start diligently catching up. I didn\u2019t pay much attention to the news on Sunday. I was out most of the day yesterday. So I came in, I started ramping up for today, and no matter where I turned, no matter what I read, no matter what I saw, I learned that Obama is on a charm offensive.<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: President Obama\u00c2\u2019s wrapping up his GOP charm offensive.<\/p>\n

MARK CRUMPTON: President Obama\u2019s charm offensive.<\/p>\n

CAROL COSTELLO: Will the Obama charm offensive work?<\/p>\n

JOHN BERMAN: President Obama begins a charm offensive.<\/p>\n

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Charm offensive from President Obama.<\/p>\n

DON LEMON: Launching a charm offensive.<\/p>\n

STUART VARNEY: His charm offensive continues.<\/p>\n

JOHN MULLER: We begin with President Obama\u2019s so-called charm offensive.<\/p>\n

CHRIS WALLACE: The president\u2019s so-called charm offensive.<\/p>\n

CANDY CROWLEY: The president\u2019s so-called charm offensive.<\/p>\n

BOB SCHIEFFER: This so-called charm offensive.<\/p>\n

LIBBY CASEY: President Obama\u00c2\u2019s so-called charm offensive.<\/p>\n

KATE BOLDUAN: Being described as the charm offensive.<\/p>\n

DOUG LUZADER: What some are describing as a charm offensive.<\/p>\n

HOWARD KURTZ: What\u2019s being called the Obama charm offensive.<\/p>\n

JENNA LEE: Some call it a charm offensive.<\/p>\n

DAN HARRIS: A major charm offensive.<\/p>\n

KIM STRASSEL: The charm offensive.<\/p>\n

BRIAN KILMEADE: The president, still on his charm offensive.<\/p>\n

JULIANNA GOLDMAN: The charm offensive.<\/p>\n

WILL CAIN: This charm offensive.<\/p>\n

HARRIS FAULKNER: The president\u2019s charm offensive.<\/p>\n

DOUG SCHOEN: The charm offensive.<\/p>\n

SUZANNE MALVEAUX: The charm offensive.<\/p>\n

JON SCOTT: The charm offensive.<\/p>\n

STEVE CENTANNI: An ongoing charm offensive.<\/p>\n

JAMES PINKERTON: A quote charm offensive unquote.<\/p>\n

SUSAN MCGINNIS: It\u2019s being called the president\u2019s charm offensive. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I could give you all the names there, but it doesn\u2019t matter. Not one of those were repeated. Now, I didn\u2019t know that any such thing was going on. So I said, “What is this?” And I learned, I read a piece by Ron Fournier, the National Journal, by the way, the charm offensive isn\u2019t working, bottom line. But the charm offensive was Obama inviting Republican establishment types out to dinner. The night that Rand Paul was doing his filibuster, Obama took, who was it, McCain and Lindsey Graham and Bob Corker and Tom Coburn, a bunch of Republicans to dinner in that 20-car motorcade for a half mile trip, and that was Obama\u2019s charm offensive. <\/line><\/p>\n

And, by the way, there are some White House staffers who were not happy about this. They don\u2019t like the charm offensive. They\u2019re being forced to do this. They think that this whole thing\u2019s being drummed up — get this — for media approval. Now, why would this be taking place? It appears, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama\u2019s in some kind of trouble. Either in the polls or in the arena of public perception. There is a polling story out from yesterday. McClatchy-Marist has a poll and the headline of their story here says “Obama Tumbling in Voters\u2019 Eyes.”<\/p>\n

They start the story this way: “If President Barack Obama had piled up political capital with his impressive re-election, it\u2019s largely gone.” These are the same people that said Obama had a mandate after his reelection to go grow the government, whatever he wanted to do, he had it. The people elected him open-endedly. Well, man, it didn\u2019t last long. We\u2019re just barely here the middle of March, he needs a charm offensive, political capital is largely gone. What was impressive about his reelection? He won reelection.<\/line>You know, these kind of facts only serve to further irritate me. Because we didn\u2019t have to be here. Obama\u2019s election victory was by a much smaller margin than his first victory. He won in 2008 the 7.2% margin over McCain, a 2.8% margin over Mitt Romney. And had four million Republicans shown up to vote, who did vote in \u201908 but didn\u2019t vote in 2012, we wouldn\u2019t be talking about an Obama victory. <\/line><\/p>\n

But the Republicans for whatever reason just went silent. You know, after Romney scored big in the first debate, that was it, that was the end of offensive and they just went into the prevent defense mode where the objective was, “Okay, we\u2019ve done it now. We\u2019ve catapulted guy. Let\u2019s not blow it. Let\u2019s not make anybody mad. Let\u2019s not say anything provocative. Let\u2019s not be critical of Obama.” And, of course, it all just petered away and the Republican base didn\u2019t even show up. But I don\u2019t know what was impressive about the win, 2.8% victory. Which is the first time it\u2019s ever happened to any two-term president where his margin of victory shrunk from first term to second term. <\/p>\n

Then the McClatchy story here says that Obama\u2019s approval rating has dropped to the lowest level in more than a year, and we have been chronicling that last week. And I think in three different polls now Obama\u2019s approval number is under 50. This is when the slaves in the media start getting worried. They start getting worried that they\u2019re not able to carry the guy\u2019s water and that he\u2019s not able to do it alone. That\u2019s why they\u2019re all talking about how he\u2019s now on a charm offensive. Why does he need one? I thought he was the nicest guy ever. I thought Obama was messianic. I mean, the low-information voters, Obama\u2019s wonderful. He\u2019s the greatest guy in the world. He\u2019s cool. He\u2019s hip. I mean, he\u2019s already booked Michelle\u2019s 50th birthday party.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got Beyonce coming. He\u2019s got Adele coming. I was asked the other day, “Can you remember a president more eager to hang around celebrities than Obama?” I can think of two that are maybes. One\u2019s Clinton (Clinton invited \u2019em to the Lincoln Bedroom) and the other is JFK. JFK had Hollywood people all over the place, Sinatra\u2019s Rat Pack. They were all over the place. Marilyn Monroe, too. I mean, when the celebrities weren\u2019t coming to the White House, JFK and RFK were coming to them.<\/line><\/p>\n

But the Democrats do fashion themselves as on the same plain as Hollywood celebrities. Music industry top dogs. I\u2019ve often thought, you know, Obama is seen by many, particularly low-information voters, not even as the president. He\u2019s just the biggest celebrity in the country. Celebrity of the United States. So when his approval rating drops below 50%, everybody starts getting alarmed, \u2019cause they know, in the back of their minds, that this is all built on the flimsiest foundation.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s administration, his success, it\u2019s all built on the flimsiest of things, and that is media buzz. It\u2019s all built on false images. It\u2019s all built on false stories, PR, buzz, whatever you want to say. So when the approval numbers drop, it\u2019s tough to stay on the same level. You can\u2019t revive those numbers with the unusual dose of celebrity stuff because the drop in polling data is rooted in substance. The drop in approval is rated in substance.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rooted in the condition of the country.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rooted in the direction the country\u2019s going.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s approval falling below 50% is rooted in the fact that people are not happy and they\u2019re uncomfortable. They\u2019re at unease. They just don\u2019t like the path the country is on. So the approval rating has dropped to the lowest level in more than a year. More voters now turning thumbs down on Obama\u2019s performance than thumbs up. The measure of how much people like him also has dropped, and the likeability has been his strong suit.<\/p>\n

The likeability is what has kept the approval number high. If you take the likeability number, and you average it with job performance number, you could elevate the approval. It\u2019s just like an average of two numbers. One of them\u2019s very, very high. Well, the liability number\u2019s what\u2019s kept Obama up there. The liability number\u2019s plummeting. Ergo, everybody now says he\u2019s on “a charm offensive,” \u2019cause they\u2019re desperate to get back the old Obama.<\/p>\n

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Look, I\u2019m not trying to be funny or even disrespectful, but “charming” is not how I would describe Obama. That\u2019s neither here nor there. The admission that he\u2019s on a charm offensive, or the fact that he\u2019s on a charm offensive is an admission that he isn\u2019t charming, or that the charm that he had has worn off. Now, they say here, “He\u2019s still vastly more popular than Congress, particularly congressional Republicans. But in the biggest political clash of the year — over the federal budget and how to curb deficits — voters split 44% to 42% between preferring Congress or Obama.”<\/p>\n

Now, you note out artfully that\u2019s worded. In reality, people think congressional Republicans have a better plan to handle the debt than Obama, and the number\u2019s 44-42. Now, if you didn\u2019t have me translating this for you, you might think it\u2019s Obama 44 to 42. “[I]n the biggest political clash of the year … voters split 44% to 42% between preferring Congress or Obama.” Well, it\u2019s 44% prefer Congress and their approach, even though the Republicans are unilaterally unpopular.<\/p>\n

This, by the way, is a forerunner.<\/p>\n

This is sort of what was happening leading into the 2010 midterms, and the Democrats\u2019 objective is the 2014 midterms and winning the House so they have one-party control. That\u2019s why they\u2019re getting worried here, folks. That\u2019s the big objective, and that\u2019s why the charm offensive. This and other recent polls are the reason for Obama\u2019s sudden charm offensive because the scuare sequester isn\u2019t working. Scaring everybody to death, “The world\u2019s gonna come to an end!” and all that sequester fearmongering didn\u2019t work. The birds are chirping, the sun comes up, and global warming isn\u2019t even happening.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: A related story from CBS News in Washington: “The Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. has found that fewer Americans than ever trust the decisions made by the government. Data collected from a survey taken in January of this year indicates that all demographics and partisan groups experienced an increasing lack of faith in government leadership…” Now, you might say, “Well, it\u2019s too little, too late, Rush,” and I might understand you saying that.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“Obama\u2019s been reelected. Obamacare is here. It\u2019s all in motion. There\u2019s nothing we can do to stop it. It\u2019s just too bad. Ah, it\u2019s too late,” and you might have a point. Except people like Ted Cruz, people like Mike Lee, people like Marco Rubio, are hell-bent on seeing to it that Obamacare is not fully funded and Paul Ryan\u2019s budget, which we haven\u2019t gotten to yet. Paul Ryan\u2019s budget calls for the full repeal of Obamacare.<\/p>\n

“Now, my point to you is that there are newly arrived conservative Republicans in the Senate and some Tea Party Republicans and some old reliable conservative Republicans, Paul Ryan being one, who are not sitting idly by and saying, “You know what? The Democrats won. They get to do whatever they want. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard this or not, but more and more conservatives — so-called conservatives — are saying, “Well, look, Obama won.<\/p>\n

“He gets to do what he wants! Obamacare is the law of the land. We can\u2019t do anything about it and we shouldn\u2019t. We\u2019re conservatives, and we abide by the law.” No. Sorry. Democrats never just sit idly by. They fight every one of our judicial nominees. They fight everything we ever tried to get done. We\u2019ve got some people still trying to defund this monster, and there appears to be public support, and public opposition to Obamacare continues to rise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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