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RUSH: I mentioned it toward the end of the previous hour that yesterday a lot of the media was shaken up. The media has been comfortable — and you may find this hard to believe — the media, the Democrats, the left, have been comfortable with the way Romney\u2019s going about campaigning on the economy, because they have been of the opinion that it\u2019s ineffective. And it largely is ineffective, given the discussion that we had yesterday. We live in a new era. Traditional campaign theory, tactics, everything in the playbook you pretty much have to throw out. We\u2019ve never had this degree of dependence before. You\u2019ve got more people signing up for disability than getting jobs in the month of June. That\u2019s unprecedented. It\u2019s never happened. <\/p>\n

People are signing up for disability when their unemployment compensation expires, after their 99 weeks are over. They need the money. There aren\u2019t any jobs. But it doesn\u2019t matter as much now that you don\u2019t have a job. In the first place, there\u2019s no stigma attached. In the second place you can still eat and you can still have your cell phone. You can still have your cell phone coverage paid for<\/a>, and you can still have your car and your plasma. And so the degree of pain that\u2019s attached to not having a job for a lot of people — not everybody, some people have a moral aspect to it they just despise — but for a lot of people there\u2019s not that much pain. And there\u2019s an aspect of 8.2%, 8.1% unemployment as a new norm. It\u2019s been three-and-a-half years. It hasn\u2019t gotten any better. The media\u2019s not holding anybody to account on it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Romney runs around campaigning on this in a traditional way that probably isn\u2019t going to get a lot of traction, and it was the only thing he was campaigning on. The economy was it. So I was pointing all this out yesterday and some in the media got a little nervous, \u2019cause there was a comfort level attached to the way the Romney campaign was dealing with the economy, a comfort level on the part of the Democrats. Here is an example. We go to CNN. By the way, I think I figured out what CNN\u2019s gonna do to try to recapture their lost glory. I think they\u2019re gonna move further to the left, try to even out-left MSNBC. That\u2019s based on a couple things I\u2019ve seen. It\u2019s too early to know for certain, too soon to tell right now, but it looks to me like CNN is gonna move even further left in their valiant effort to recapture the 98% of their audience that they\u2019ve lost since the 1980s. <\/p>\n

Now, this morning on a program called Newsroom, the anchor, Carol Costello, who is also the CNN assigned stalker of this program, she spoke to a columnist at The Daily Beast by the name of John Avlon about the Romney campaign and me. She played audio of me saying that the economy is not enough for Romney to win on. And then she said, “So, is Rush Limbaugh right? Are we dealing with something new in 2012?”<\/p>\n

AVLON: What Rush Limbaugh is alluding to is that this race is going to get uglier, it\u2019s going to get nastier, it\u2019s going to get more negative. When he talks explicitly about how Romney, he believes, needs to do to Obama what he did previously to Gingrich and Santorum, that\u2019s a very specific prescription. That\u2019s what Rush Limbaugh is encouraging Mitt Romney to do, to go negative and to use a financial advantage to try to, you know, look, politics ain\u2019t bean bag, but that\u2019s the prescription Rush Limbaugh\u2019s saying that Mitt Romney needs to follow<\/a>.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s pretty much right, and that worries them. It worries them. They don\u2019t want that to happen. Romney does have a financial advantage. They want Obama to own Mr. Negative. They want Obama to be Mr. Cutthroat. They don\u2019t want to see the Romney that destroyed Santorum and that destroyed Newt with his Super PAC. They don\u2019t want to see that. So now they\u2019re a little worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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