{"id":17376,"date":"2011-11-16T17:17:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-16T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:17:47","slug":"smear_machine_shifts_to_newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/11\/16\/smear_machine_shifts_to_newt\/","title":{"rendered":"Smear Machine Shifts to Newt"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know how you can tell that Newt Gingrich <\/a>is at the top of the slate? You don\u2019t need polling data; you just need to look at the media coverage. You just need to look at the media coverage. You move on to the Republican primaries, Newt is rising so fast in the polls that the media is trying to tie him to Freddie Mac. They love Freddie Mac. They\u2019ve bailed out Freddie Mac. They\u2019ve done everything they can to keep Freddie Mac going. Executives at Freddie Mac are gonna be paid a hundred million dollars in bonuses while Freddie Mac needs another $6 billion bailout. That\u2019s where the Occupy Wall Street crowd should have been all along, but they don\u2019t care about that. When government\u2019s spending the money they\u2019re all for it. <\/p>\n

So Newt is now under assault because he has ties to Freddie Mac. The darlings of the media, the darlings of the Democrat Party, the darlings of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. In fact, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were both left out of the financial regulatory reform bill. There were no reforms instituted against Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. All of these financial regulatory reforms aimed at the financial business, guess what, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac exempted. So Newt consulted for them. And all of a sudden now Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may as well be guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. Profound inconsistency here. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, for the record, Newt has already responded to the accusations about his role in Freddie Mac a number of times. I think he\u2019s even mentioned it during the debates. He said that he was hired as a consultant, but that\u2019s a crime now. If you look at the headlines, you look at the news stories, Newt being a consultant to Fannie Mae is a crime, even though they love Fannie Mae. Even though they want Fannie Mae to sustain it, they want Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to stay alive and kicking, Newt consults \u2019em and all of a sudden Newt\u2019s filthy, Newt\u2019s dirty, Newt\u2019s tainted. And of course what they\u2019re really going after is the fact that Newt\u2019s a hypocrite because the Republicans think that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac are problems, put there\u2019s Newt taking money from \u2019em.<\/p>\n

Newt says that he told \u2019em that the housing market was a bubble that was about to burst. He told them that they were making a mistake handing out loans to people who couldn\u2019t afford them. Newt says he told them what they were doing wrong and what they needed to fix it and he did get his consultancy fee for it. If all that\u2019s true it\u2019s a shame they didn\u2019t listen to him. Doesn\u2019t matter what they paid him; it was good advice. Certainly better advice than what they\u2019ve gotten from their own wildly overpaid executives. Certainly better advice than they\u2019ve gotten from Obama. <\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s this new book. This is from the Huffing and Puffington Post, or PuffingtonHo.com, whatever it is. “New Book Says Newt Gingrich Bought off His Wife to Stay in the Race — A new e-book on the 2012 election released Friday says that Newt Gingrich went on an ill-timed cruise to Greece this year and spent over a million dollars in jewelry at Tiffany\u2019s to buy off his reluctant wife Callista so that she wouldn\u2019t object to his running for president.” Now, the book doesn\u2019t cite named sources, but why should it? The Politico doesn\u2019t, either. Anonymous sources, anonymous facts, anonymous details now make up the bulk of reporting in the State-Controlled Media. Now a new one — an e-book! For those of you in Rio Linda, an e-book is a book that you would read on a Kindle.<\/p>\n

That may not help. Uh, it is a book that you would read on an iPad. It is a book that you would read on an iPod Touch. Forget it. I\u2019m talking about reading! What am I doing here? Reading in Rio Linda? I\u2019m sorry, folks, it\u2019s a… Anyway, “The book does not cite named sources, and the Gingrich campaign immediately dismissed the sniping from former campaign officials. Several of Gingrich\u2019s former top campaign advisers now work for rival candidate Rick Perry. The book, from Real Clear Politics\u2019 Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon, raises the question of whether Gingrich\u2019s former aides were talking to Perry before they left in June. The Perry aides deny the accusation.”<\/p>\n

Apparently, Perry was trying to siphon Newt\u2019s staffers before Newt went on the cruise. The name of the e-book: “‘Election 2012: The Battle Begins,\u2019 does not offer evidence that current Perry advisers Dave Carney and Rob Johnson left Gingrich because Perry had begun to express interest in running for president himself. But the question lingers.” No evidence! No, of course not. There is no evidence. The book doesn\u2019t offer any evidence, “but the question lingers.” “The vitriol expressed for Callista Gingrich in the e-book is intense. The sentiments have been aired before. What is new is the lengths to which Gingrich\u2019s former aides … go to trash Callista Gingrich. ‘She\u2019s the single worst influence on a candidate I\u2019ve ever seen,\u2019 one ‘campaign strategist\u2019 told Bevan and Cannon.<\/p>\n

“This same source said that Gingrich bought ‘a necklace reportedly worth six figures … to ‘buy Callista off\u2019 so she\u2019d acquiesce to a presidential run.\u2019 Gingrich\u2019s ex-aides said that the former House Speaker from Georgia ignored their advice not to go on a luxury cruise to the Greek islands in late May because he feared damage to, or even the loss of, his marriage to [Callista]. ‘In Newt\u2019s mind, it was the cruise or his marriage. And he didn\u2019t want to get married a fourth time,\u2019 said a source identified by Cannon and Bevan as ‘a person with knowledge of the discussions.'” So you can tell now that Newt\u2019s at the top. There\u2019s just no evidence. The questions linger. (interruption) The Fanny and Freddy stuff? He has answered for the Fannie and Freddie stuff.<\/p>\n

(interruption) He\u2019s gotta do better than saying he can…? (interruption) All right. (interruption) Okay, okay, okay, okay. (interruption) Look, I\u2019m not here to defend Gingrich. Do not misunderstand anything. I am your humble host reporting and digesting all the filth and trash that\u2019s out there about all of our candidates. I\u2019m sifting through it and I am then retransmitting it to you. “Next week, another similar project will get off the ground, when the first of four 2012 e-books by Politico\u2019s Mike Allen and former Newsweek editor-at-large Evan Thomas will go on sale. Allen and Thomas\u2019 book is being edited by former Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham and is also being published by Random House.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Newsweek is about 12 pages every issue, and these guys are no longer there. At any rate, okay, so Newt gets a million dollars from Fannie Mae — to consult — and he says he told \u2019em what they were do wrong and they didn\u2019t listen to him. (interruption) Well, yeah, that\u2019s a good point. I told you all for free. I did. I have been telling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac everything in the world to do right, nobody\u2019s paid me. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac haven\u2019t paid me. By the way, a million dollars over eight years was Newt\u2019s deal, by the way. (interruption) Boy, you are really sniping. You are really sniping. (interruption) Newt\u2019s deal with Freddie Mac was for a million dollars over eight years. Okay, I\u2019m just warning, for those of you on the phones today, Snerdley\u2019s loaded for bear. My guess is if you want to call and talk about Newt, I\u2019ll never see you today.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This e-book that I quoted, “Election 2012: The Battle Begins,” by Perry advisors Dave Carney and Rob Johnson, it really is… I haven\u2019t read it all, obviously, but from what I\u2019ve read it really seems to be a huge hit piece on his wife, on Newt\u2019s wife Callista. I always thought that one of the most sacred tenets of modern journalism is you\u2019re supposed to leave the wives out of it. Really, and Callista not doing anything. She not inserting herself in any way, she not out there talking about policy, she not talking about arugula and steak and telling lies about food desserts and this kind of stuff. You know, she shows up and smiles, and that\u2019s about it, and yet this hit piece, this book is obviously aimed at her; and it\u2019s clear, too, ladies and gentlemen, that the target of this smear actually (in terms of voters) is the Tea Party.<\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s meaning is they\u2019re trying to influence the Tea Party with negative vibes about Newt, and they\u2019ve got some ammo. If we want to we can go back and get all the stories where Newt has done things which are not conservative. The couch deal with Pelosi, saying, “The era of Reagan is over.” Newt was one of the early Republicans to say that, and he eventually retracted it. So that\u2019s the reason, but the larger point is: You don\u2019t need a poll to tell you who\u2019s hot on the Republican primary side. Whoever is hot is hit. It\u2019s a full-fledged take-\u2019em-out media approach, and the only guy who is immune to this is Mitt Romney. Mitt is not hit. They\u2019re saving that up for later. It was Herman Cain, it was Sarah Palin before Herman Cain, and it was Michele Bachmann when she won the Iowa straw poll. They think they\u2019ve taken Herman Cain out. They\u2019re still hitting Herman Cain, and now they\u2019ve moved on to Newt — and if somebody comes along and replaces Newt at the top in the polling data you won\u2019t need the polling data to know. You\u2019ll just have to see who it is the media\u2019s decided to take out among our side next.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Say, folks, a quick question: Do we ever get stories on gifts Ted Kennedy bought for his wife over the years? We didn\u2019t. Did we ever get stories about what Bill Clinton bought for his wife over the years? Well, in one way, yeah. You could say that it cost Clinton a lot. In fact, Newt\u2019s getting off cheap. Hillary got health care. Callista got something from Tiffany. It just depends on your perspective in these things. But my point is, Kobe Bryant, he went out, he had to buy a big, giant ring. You think Newt\u2019s the only husband in politics that has ever had to go out and do something like this? And, by the way, what is wrong with buying your wife something from Tiffany? What is wrong with that? Why is that a problem?<\/p>\n

The only difference is Newt bought it with his own money. Democrats never do it with their own money; they always use ours. But why is there a guilt trip here to be associated with going out and buying your wife something at Tiffany & Company? Or taking her on a cruise? What is the crime there? (interruption) Well, I know, the “timing” of the cruise because it was middle of a presidential campaign and so forth, but I just think all of these double standards that exist, these efforts here to criminalize things when, in fact, what everybody ought to be looking at is — in all candor — this Occupy stuff. We\u2019re witnessing a nation in great decline. The Sandusky stuff at Penn State, too.<\/p>\n

Everywhere you look, folks, you see things that make you queasy, angry, filled with apprehension, angst, unease, whatever. This Occupy stuff, that\u2019s directly traceable to the White House. The White House and Obama personally, personally, not just orchestrated these things, he created the mind-set: All of this class envy, running around, creating all this hatred in people\u2019s minds for the achievers in our society, the successful in our society. I think all of this — the shootings, the drugs, the squalor, the filth, everything — associated with Occupy Wall Street you can trace it right back to the White House. They got what they wanted. Barack Obama was the inspiration for the Occupy movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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