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<\/p>\nRUSH: My friends, the Drive-By Media is in a state of shock. They\u2019re depressed and disappointed. They\u2019re fearful for the future. Barack Hussein Obama cannot even please them with speeches anymore. Do you realize what that does to them? The speech — speeches — that\u2019s where he shows how smart he is! His ability to talk, it counts for so much. And I know that it does. The greater your vocabulary and the greater your ability to use it, for example, the greater the odds are you\u2019ll convince people that you are intelligent and educated. <\/p>\n
No matter what you say, it\u2019s how you say it. The right pauses, inflections. If you have the correct intonations and onomatopoeia and patterns of the elite Northeast, that\u2019s all it takes. It doesn\u2019t matter what you say. It\u2019s like David Brooks. “I have never seen a sharper crease in a pant. That man\u2019s going to be a great president!” Ah, it\u2019s brilliant! What powers of observation Brooks must have. It doesn\u2019t matter what you say. You have the proper, uh, pauses, uh, where you are thinking, uh, on your feet.<\/p>\n
Your mind is racing so fast and the eyebrows raised occasionally now and then and you look around… And that gave the media orgasms. And now after this thing yesterday, not even Obama\u2019s speeches please them! Jonathan Alter on MSNBC (he\u2019s a Newsweek editor) said, “It was one of the least successful speeches I\u2019ve seen Obama give in several years. It was long-winded. He had a good argument to make. At the beginning of his speech he seemed to be making it in a fairly compelling way but he lost the thread. It was way too long. He lost the audience by the end.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s the media montage…<\/p>\n
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YELLIN: This is the second time in the last week and a half he\u2019s gone out to talk about the economy without really offering something new.<\/p>\n
ALTER: This, honestly, was one of the least successful speeches I\u2019ve seen Barack Obama give.<\/p>\n
FREELAND: I don\u2019t think the president, in particular, did as good a job as he\u2019s gonna have to do to be reelected.<\/p>\n
DOBBS: I don\u2019t see what was framed. I don\u2019t see why he bothered!<\/p>\n
WILLIAMS: The legitimate criticism here is: No new ideas.<\/p>\n
RIVERA: You can\u2019t have a speech in a place like Cleveland and not have specifics on your plan.<\/p>\n
BORGER: A president who whines about what a terrible situation he\u2019s in and, “Woe is me.”<\/p>\n
KLEIN: I don\u2019t think this kind of speech does much. The president has failed profoundly in his ability to explain to them what he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
BECKEL: It\u2019s been a couple weeks he probably wishes he could forget.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, it was last week that was bad. Now this week is tacked on, too. It\u2019s a couple weeks. That was Bob Beckel. Did you hear what Geraldo said? “You can\u2019t have a speech in a place like Cleveland and not have specifics on your plan.” What? Could you go to Shaker Heights and not have specifics? What is it about Cleveland that you have to have specifics? “You can\u2019t have a speech in a place like Cleveland and not have specifics on your plan.”<\/p>\n
Maybe you could go to LA and not have specifics or San Francisco, but you can\u2019t go to a place like Cleveland. Anyway, you hear they\u2019re panicked. No new ideas! No new ideas! Folks, there aren\u2019t any. You guys are even making a mistake and looking at him with the wrong lens. He doesn\u2019t have any new ideas. He\u2019s tacked into the 1930s, you people. That\u2019s where he wants to take us, and further. <\/p>\n
But, sadly, my friends, I\u2019ve reached the limits of the programming format, busy broadcast hour must take an obscene profit break right here. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: Back to the audio sound bites. Matt Lauer was on the Today Show today with David Gregory, the host of Meet the Depressed. And they were having a discussion about the presidential race. And one of the points that we made yesterday is what they reflect here. You know, here\u2019s Obama. He goes to Cleveland, but he doesn\u2019t have do it in Cleveland. Wherever he goes, he blames Bush. What he\u2019s really doing is saying he doesn\u2019t have what it takes to fix the Bush mess. He\u2019s been working at it for 3-1\/2 years and it hadn\u2019t gotten any better. <\/p>\n
By Obama\u2019s own admission, his 3-1\/2years have been worthless. <\/p>\n
Okay, so you want to lay all this off on Bush. <\/p>\n
He can\u2019t, but he does. <\/p>\n
(imitating) “Lay it all off on Bush! It\u2019s worse than we thought it was gonna be. My predecessor made all these mistakes!” Well, you\u2019ve been trying to fix it for 3-1\/2 years. You can\u2019t do it. Reagan got us out of a recession in two years in the \u201980s. Obama\u2019s out running around, “Well, these recoveries need ten years sometimes. Look at Europe.” So these guys at NBC, I don\u2019t know if they were listening yesterday or not, but they\u2019re picking up on this theme and the way we framed it yesterday: If you haven\u2019t fixed it yet, why should you get four more years to fix it? <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how the discussion went…<\/p>\n
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LAUER: How does Barack Obama go out there on the campaign trail and say, “I can do, in the next four years, what I have failed to accomplish in the last three and a half?”<\/p>\n
GREGORY: I mean, if it comes down to that, Matt, it\u2019s a bad day for him. Mitt Romney is running the campaign he wants to run, which is just a referendum. “You\u2019re not happy about the economy? This guy\u2019s been there for four years. Vote him out of office. You need an alternative president.” What the president\u2019s got to do is say, “Hey, don\u2019t forget about George W. Bush!”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Matt Lauer then continued…<\/p>\n
LAUER: The question is, 3-1\/2 years into an administration, do you think that strategy works — the blame-Bush strategy — or do people want you to take ownership of this economy at this stage?<\/p>\n
GREGORY: They want you to take ownership. I think the argument is that they\u2019ve gotta prevail in providing context, saying, “Look, it\u2019s not about blaming the previous president. It\u2019s that the — the hill was so high to climb, and we\u2019re making some progress. But the hole is so, so deep.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, give me a break!<\/p>\n
You people are embarrassing yourselves the way you\u2019re going out of your way to make excuses for this guy. Because the truth of the matter is in Matt Lauer\u2019s first observation: “Oh, you want to lay it all on Bush. Okay. You\u2019ve had 3-1\/2 years, and, by your own admission, you can\u2019t fix it. So why should we give you four more years?” And Gregory, who probably hadn\u2019t heard that perspective, said (imitating), “Oh, oh! No! Matt, if it comes down to that, it\u2019s a bad day for Obama.” It\u2019s been a bad 3-1\/2 years for America, Mr. Gregory. <\/p>\n
You\u2019re worried about a bad day for Obama or bad week or bad two weeks. But it\u2019s a legitimate question. You\u2019re gonna lay it off on Bush. You\u2019re gonna blame him and say you\u2019ve got the fixes and you\u2019re the guy we should invest in. But, by your own admission, you can\u2019t in 3-1\/2 years! Bush so screwed it up, you don\u2019t have what it takes to fix what Bush did. So why give you four more years? Okay, so that conversation is Matt Lauer and David Gregory, and it\u2019s a traditional Friday. They bring David Gregory on to tout, to promo Meet the Press every Friday. <\/p>\n
On CBS, they do the same thing. Charlie Rose has his weekly gaggle with Bob Schieffer of Slay the Nation. So Charlie Rose said to Bob Schieffer, (imitating) “Bob, where are we now in terms of how you see these two competing proposals for fixing the economy? Where are we, Bob? The president, on the one hand, saying, ‘I need more time.'” Yeah, how many people in this country do you think were wandering around yesterday and last night saying, “I can\u2019t wait for CBS tomorrow for Bob Schieffer to tell us how to fix the economy”? <\/p>\n
How many people? (interruption)<\/p>\n
Well, no. I ask the question because of the world these people live in, the world they must live in. Here\u2019s Charlie Rose. He\u2019s got Schieffer on. Schieffer is an “expert,” right? He asks Schieffer, “Okay, Bob, where are we in terms of how you see these two competing proposals for fixing the economy?” Where are we here? So I\u2019m just wondering how many people…? Even people that watch CBS. Do you know anybody who last night couldn\u2019t wait to get up this morning to hear what Bob Schieffer had to say about how to fix the economy? <\/p>\n
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<\/a>Nothing against Bob Schieffer. Don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n