{"id":14646,"date":"2012-09-07T18:55:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T18:55:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:58:32","slug":"media_in_crisis_the_thrill_is_gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/07\/media_in_crisis_the_thrill_is_gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Media in Crisis: The Thrill is Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s a story. Joe Kildea in the Daily Caller: “Why Has the Democratic National Convention Been Such a Disaster?” The Daily Caller is Chatsworth Osborne Jr.\u2019s website. “When asked about the Democratic convention in Charlotte, NC, Mitt Romney called it a ‘celebration of failure.\u2019 Granted, he may be a little biased. Yet the spectacle coming out of the DNC this week is hard to ignore or even gloss over with well-intentioned words. Frankly, it\u00c2\u2019s been a disaster. Exhibit A is the Democrats\u00c2\u2019 embarrassing ham-fisted reversal on their party platform,” where God got booed. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Another embarrassment, Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz.<\/a> Then there was the “ABC\/Washington Post poll that was released Tuesday night showing President Obama with a 47 percent favorability rating.” We\u2019ve talked about that poll quite a bit on this program, but I\u2019ll tell you, it hasn\u2019t been discussed widely, but this poll was devastating news to Obama and the Democrats, and that\u2019s why it wasn\u2019t discussed much. His favorability, 47%, this was the poll earlier this week in which it was revealed that he\u2019s losing ground big time with women<\/a>, and it had everybody on the Democrat side just stunned. After all this money that they\u2019ve spent tarring and feathering Romney and Ryan, the War on Women, devotion at the convention, they love women, they love abortion, they love condoms, they love birth control pills, and not only is Romney up about ten with men, but Obama was only up one in this poll with women. And they were shocked. <\/p>\n

“Last week, Republicans in Tampa talked about the $16 trillion national debt, job creation and tax reform. This week in Charlotte, Democrats are talking about free contraception, abortion rights and even more public spending (or, as they call it, ‘investment\u2019). Perhaps the average female voter doesn\u00c2\u2019t care as much about free contraception as the Democrats think they do. In contrast, the Republican convention, objectively speaking, went fairly smooth. Put another way: These conventions reflect the personalities of the two parties\u00c2\u2019 respective nominees. On the right is Mitt Romney — a man well-schooled in the art of good management. On the left is President Obama — a man with no real management skills.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>Folks, it really was a disaster. You can\u2019t judge this on the basis of the energy level of the delegates or the attendees. It was. Whether people saw it that way or not, forget perception. I know perception is said to be reality. In this case, if this had been our convention, we would be feeling devastated. If this kind of stuff had happened at ours, we would think it\u2019s over. It was not done well. It was a mishmash. Your slogan is “Forward,” and your heroes at this convention are dinosaurs — Ted Kennedy and Clinton. The theme is War on Women<\/a>, and your two big stars are womanizers? One of your big stars you can\u2019t even invite — John Edwards. And then the piece de resistance, the grand finale is a dud — Obama\u2019s speech. <\/a><\/p>\n

“In Tampa, Republicans moved their convention around to accommodate a hurricane. In Charlotte, the Democrats panicked over a 30 percent chance of precipitation. When Republicans poked fun at the switcheroo, one Obama campaign official said, ‘If we were worried about our crowd size, we certainly wouldn\u00c2\u2019t listen to Mitt Romney about how to build a crowd.\u2019 Why\u00c2\u2019s that? Because the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City wasn\u00c2\u2019t one of the most watched, most financially successful Olympics in recent history? Oh wait.” It was. Everywhere you look, in comparison, the Republican convention was professional. They accomplished what they set out to accomplish. The Democrat convention was an absolute disaster. <\/p>\n

Audio sound bites. Here\u2019s Bob Schieffer in crisis. Obama\u2019s speech just didn\u2019t live up to Clinton\u2019s.<\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: This was not the kind of speech that Bill Clinton made last night<\/a>. You just… It just didn\u2019t have that little spark, it seemed to me, uh, that Clinton had over and over again. I thought it was a good speech. Uhhh, I thought he, uh, laid out, uhhh, his side of the story here. That soaring rhetoric, uh, that we\u2019ve heard in, uh, the speech in 2008? I didn\u2019t hear that tonight. Maybe it\u2019s just me. But maybe I\u2019m still getting over the Bill Clinton speech last night.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. That\u2019s probably true. I think these people are totally in the tank and absorbed with Clinton. But, you see, it wasn\u2019t just me thinking this thing was a bomb. People on the left thought so, too. Here. Charlie Rose and David Brooks on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS last night. Listen to this…<\/p>\n

ROSE: Jodi Kantor. We had Dave Maraniss in here.<\/a> Peter Baker\u2019s got a new piece that\u2019s coming up in Vanity Fair. A piece by Michael Lewis. What comes out of this is the enormous competitiveness of the president, number one. Number two, sometime — something bordering on arrogance. And number three, that at times he can believe more in his abilities than justified.<\/p>\n

BROOKS: Yeah. Well, that\u2019s for sure. And then the — the fourth thing that I would add to that is at anti-political aloofness. This has been a conscious strategy of, uhh, the people around him: Separate him from the politicians. He\u2019s not a normal politician. He\u2019s a transformational figure, here.<\/p>\n

ROSE: Transformational to what?<\/p>\n

BROOKS: (snickers) I don\u2019t know. (unintelligible) Messiah.<\/p>\n

ROSE: You want to be a transformational figure, you gotta be taking us somewhere.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Charlie Rose, who four years ago admitted with Brokaw that he didn\u2019t know who Obama was<\/a>. He didn\u2019t know anything about him, and now he didn\u2019t know what he\u2019s transforming us to. He can\u2019t wait to vote for the guy! Charlie cannot wait to vote for Obama, can\u2019t wait for Obama to be president. But he admits on his own TV show that he hasn\u2019t the slightest idea who the guy is. And these pieces he\u2019s talking about?<\/p>\n

Jodi Kantor, that\u2019s the Sunday New York Times piece where people call Obama arrogant and aloof, not a nice guy. The Maraniss biography basically exposed the lies in <\/line>Obama\u2019s books. The Politico says Obama hadn\u2019t given a good speech in two years<\/a>. Peter Baker\u2019s article in the New York Times yesterday was something else. But it\u2019s all this stuff. What Charlie is alluding to that he doesn\u2019t get is that what these people are doing is preparing, if necessary, to throw Obama overboard in order to save the ideology.<\/line><\/p>\n

Which will happen, if they think Obama is gonna lose. If they ever reach that conclusion before the election, then it\u2019s time to circle the wagons around liberalism, time to circle the wagons around socialism, statism, Trotskyites, Marxism, whatever. Circle the wagons and save that. That cannot be blamed if Obama is gonna lose. Now, for David Brooks, I\u2019d say, “What\u2019s the problem, pal?” Obama\u2019s crease in his slacks is identical <\/a>to what it was four years ago when you said that the crease in his slacks really impressed you.<\/p>\n

It told you that he was not just gonna be president, he was gonna be a good one! Has something happened to the crease in his slacks, David? No, I\u2019m not making this up. David Brooks said that. I have new members of the audience every day here. The tune-in factor is out of sight. David Brooks of the New York Times actually said, four years ago, that one of the things that impressed him about Obama was the crease in his slacks when they had dinner at George Will\u2019s house. He wrote that he knew Obama was gonna be a great president just because of that.<\/p>\n

Well, the crease in the slacks is still the same.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s gone wrong? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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