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RUSH: Lance Armstrong yesterday and the Oprah Winfrey interview. I wonder — we won\u2019t know this because nobody\u2019s talking about it. We won\u2019t know this until — by the way, a two-parter now, Thursday and Friday. It went so long, 112 questions. That\u2019s how many she prepped and she asked almost all of them. But I\u2019m wondering if Oprah thought to ask Lance Armstrong about his position on gun control and whether or not he\u2019s pro-choice. Because, you know, a few well-chosen answers by Lance Armstrong and he could be home free. <\/p>\n

All he\u2019s gotta do is come out and say, “Yep, I\u2019m pro-choice all the way, Oprah! And get rid of guns? Well, yeah!” How can they…? I mean, they\u2019d have to embrace him. What faster way to get back in the good graces of the dominant media culture in this country than to do that? Armstrong could also point out… I just found this out last night. Lance Armstrong won seven Tours de France, and he\u2019s been stripped of all the titles. But do you know that the guys who finished second have not been awarded the titles because they, too, were doping?<\/p>\n

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The bicycling agencies, authorities are having to look really hard to find anybody who wasn\u2019t doping. So it\u2019s a fair race. It\u2019s one of the things that Lance Armstrong could say. He could say that, and they could give back his titles. I mean, the DOJ (Department of Justice) today might join a whistleblower suit. There is a lawsuit going at Armstrong to claw back all the endorsement money he got, \u2019cause it is now under false pretense. He cheated. He didn\u2019t really win those contests legitimately. One of his sponsors was the Postal Service and they paid Armstrong 30 mill.<\/p>\n

So the Justice Department, they have to decide today or tomorrow. I\u2019m not sure. They gotta decide quick whether they want to join that lawsuit and get their $30 million back. If they do decide that, it will tell us that Armstrong\u2019s a Republican. Eric Holder is not gonna pursue a Democrat like this, but if Armstrong, if they find out… We don\u2019t know. He was gonna run in Texas for governor against Rick Perry, but he\u2019s never really said what he is. But we\u2019ll know.<\/p>\n

If the DOJ joins this whistleblower claw-back lawsuit we will have a pretty good idea that Armstrong is a Republican. Now, Oprah has announced that Lance Armstrong admitted to her that he cheated. This ended up being a 2-1\/2 hour interview. It\u2019s still not clear whether she cried. He did, but we don\u2019t know whether Oprah did. We don\u2019t know whether Oprah officially forgave him. For that we\u2019re going to have to tune in to the broadcast. Well, it\u2019s probably a safe bet that she cried and I\u2019m told that Lance cried, too.<\/p>\n

He better have cried if he expects to be forgiven by low-information voters. On her network, the OWN network that nobody watches… Well, I had to Google search it to find where it is on DirecTV. DirecTV is tough. Their website\u2019s tough to search. It\u2019s really odd, but I found it, and I have set it up. Kathryn wants it recorded so I\u2019ve set it up to record, obviously. But I\u2019m wondering. I watch all this and I\u2019m wondering, “What the rules are here? Are there any crimes that are too big it to be forgiven by crying on Oprah? Is there any limit? Does it work even on homicide?”<\/p>\n

If you kill somebody and then you go on Oprah and ask for forgiveness and cry…? Yeah, okay. If you don\u2019t use a gun it could work for homicide. Is this really…? We joke that you go on Oprah for absolution. Every celebrity that gets in trouble, we joke, goes on Oprah. The joke is now real life. All you have to do is say, “Forgive me, Oprah, for I have sinned.” It\u2019s a state religion: The OWN network. Now, according to TMZ (and they should know), “Oprah says she prepared 112 questions for the interview, and got through most of them. Oprah says ‘there were times\u2019 Lance got emotional, but she didn\u2019t drop details.<\/p>\n

“Oprah says she was so tough with her questioning, that Lance asked her to lighten up. After the interview, Oprah says both she and Lance were exhausted and satisfied.” Well, I was gonna say, “Yikes!” to that. TMZ said that Oprah and Lance were both “exhausted and satisfied.” That\u2019s like too much information. TMZ says, “Lance\u2019s lawyers were NOT in the room during the interview,” and, “Oprah suggests Lance\u2019s people leaked details about the interview to the AP.” I have a couple of sound bites here. This is Oprah. She was on CBS This Morning. She was on with Gayle King, her “best friend forever,” BFF. It\u2019s an interview about the interview, and Gayle King said to Oprah, “Tell us, tell people, how did you get this interview?”<\/p>\n

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WINFREY: I stayed over an extra two days in order to accommodate his schedule. And, uh, he came to visit me in Maui. He lives on another island.<\/p>\n

KING: (laughing)<\/p>\n

WINFREY: I had nobody in the house, including, you know, people who usually are there for help and, uh, you know, even the people who do the lawn. I removed all those people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So there is Oprah, ladies and gentlemen, describing the personal hardship that she went through to get this interview. She had to stay two extra days in Hawaii at her mansion in Maui because Lance lives on a different island over there. Then she had to get rid of the servants! It was a real, real hardship. Oprah wanted to make sure that everybody knew how hard she worked and how committed she was to getting this interview. Then Gayle King said, “Well, it\u2019s being described, Oprah, as an emotional interview for Lance.”<\/p>\n

WINFREY: Well, I would say there were a couple of times where he was emotional. But “emotional” doesn\u2019t begin to describe the intensity or the difficulty that I think that he experienced in talking about some of these things. I would say, you know, all the people who are wondering if he actually goes there and answers? I think that you will come away to understanding that he brought it. He really did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Um, “He brought it?” He brought it? That means he opened up, right? It means he delivered. Brought his A game. Okay. It means he delivered. If you\u2019re “wondering if he actually goes there and answers…” Well, we would hope so. I mean, you\u2019re the freaking Oprah! It\u2019s 2-1\/2 hours. If he didn\u2019t, what was the point?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dr. Keith Ablow, a well-known psychiatrist at Tufts University School of Medicine, was on Fox this morning. He was asked to diagnose Lance Armstrong\u2019s lying.<\/line><\/p>\n

ABLOW: “Who does that?” Well, the Lance Armstrongs and Bernie Madoffs of our world, right, who are willing to perpetrate Ponzi schemes or false athletic careers because the need is so great. Somewhere deep inside Lance Armstrong is a battered person. He must be loved by millions or he is unloved or unworthy and has no value at all. That kind of fuel will keep a man lying, because to turn around and face whatever happened in his life… We know some of the things: abandoned at age two by a father he has nothing to do with; a stepfather then coming into his life. He has nothing to do with him.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: So, Dr. Ablow —<\/p>\n

ABLOW: Bad things happened to this guy and he won\u2019t look at it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, wow. So Lance Armstrong is a “battered person” who must be loved by millions or he\u2019s unloved and unworthy, no value to, that kind of fuel keeps a guy lying. Does that sound like anybody you know? Somebody that has to be adored, has to be the focus of attention in the room? Does that sound like anybody you know? (interruption) Clinton. I was thinking Clinton. Maybe Obama, but certainly Clinton. This is amazing. So then the question, “Well, look, is this a specific disorder, Doctor? Some people are throwing around terms like ‘narcissism.\u2019 Does he fall into that category, Lance Armstrong?”<\/p>\n

ABLOW: This is somebody who will lie to a camera, who will throw people under the bus who thought that they were his friends. Sure, there might be a diagnosis that can describe that, but it won\u2019t tell us a story of this little boy who came to believe that the truth has no value and nobody will help you and you ought not help anyone else.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Keith Ablow on Fox today describing Lance Armstrong from afar. He\u2019s not one of his patients. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So back to Keith Ablow for a second and the analysis of Lance Armstrong. He is what he is \u2019cause his father abandoned him. He\u2019s a liar. He is just totally dependent on being loved and adored by everybody, not just a couple or three people. He\u2019s gotta be loved and adored by everybody, and if he\u2019s not, then he\u2019s got no self-worth at all. This is Keith Ablow\u2019s analysis. Well, Obama\u2019s father abandoned him as we all know and Clinton\u2019s father abandoned him. As I say, Armstrong, we\u2019ll have to watch this Oprah interview, but if he came out against guns and for gun control, and if he somehow snuck it in there that he\u2019s pro-choice, he\u2019s got a leg up in being forgiven here by the dominant media culture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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