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RUSH: Bernard Goldberg, who has a website BernardGoldberg.com, has a take on this. “What If Herman Cain Were a Liberal?” Here\u2019s an excerpt: “Yes, the so-called mainstream media uncovered Gary Hart\u2019s sex scandal when he was running for president in 1988, and he was a liberal Democrat. <\/p>\n
“They also went after Anthony Weiner, another liberal Democrat, who eventually resigned from Congress. John Edwards was something else. Reporters didn\u2019t want any part of that lurid sex story and covered it only when they couldn\u2019t ignore it anymore. How about Bill Clinton? Yes, reporters covered Monica and the blue dress and all that. So we certainly can\u2019t say they ignored his sexcapades. But it\u2019s more complicated than that. Let\u2019s go back to Herman Cain. His accuser is being described in the press as an Ivy League graduate. They never explain the relevance of that, so I\u2019ll tell you: it\u2019s to let you know that she\u2019s smart — just like the reporters who are covering the story — and that people who go to Ivy League schools should be taken seriously.<\/p>\n
That is supposed to certify believability, credibility, and intelligence; and I would say the media did their best to ignore the Clinton story, and when the Clinton team finally decided how they were gonna handle it, going after the women, the media was very compliant. When they went after Ken Starr the media was very compliant. The media did everything it could to advance the Clinton version of the story, and if it weren\u2019t for that blue dress? I\u2019ll guarantee you there\u2019d be an entirely different take on the Clinton story today if that blue dress had not been kept and found and DNA tested. So Herman Cain. The crazy notion here the truth might be its own best defense? The media can\u2019t handle it. Here\u2019s another way to analyze this: Herman Cain may not be a skilled liar, but you know what else I\u2019ve noticed? He doesn\u2019t retreat at the first sign of trouble. <\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t cave, he doesn\u2019t whimper, he doesn\u2019t disappear, he doesn\u2019t hide — and I really mean this when I say, “Shame on the Republicans that piled on Herman when nobody knew the facts.” Nobody to this day knows the facts. But shame on those Republicans for treating Herman Cain — in the media and elected politics. All Republicans, all conservatives, if you are one of those who treated Herman Cain as though he was guilty just because of his unpracticed response to vague suggestions of legal or immoral or unethical behavior. If you caved just to look good to the mainstream media, if you piled on Herman Cain just so the rest of the mainstream media wouldn\u2019t associate you with the ragtag conservatism you don\u2019t like, then shame on you! <\/p>\n
Because here\u2019s a promise that you can take to the bank. Every one of you Republicans — other nominees in the media, elected politics — you can take to the bank that your guy is going to be next. If they take out Herman Cain, whoever\u2019s up next is gonna become the next target — and if you continue to accept without question whatever the mainstream media says about any of our candidates just to look good to them, just to curry favor with them (or just to appear as though you\u2019re not as silly conservative as, say, Limbaugh and the talk show guys are), you\u2019re eventually gonna be next, or the guy you support is gonna be next; and for you to be consistent, you\u2019re gonna have to throw him overboard as well. When that happens, when it\u2019s your guy that\u2019s the subject of innuendo and anonymous details, you\u2019re going to wish that you had Herman Cain and his backers to fight back alongside you. <\/p>\n
You\u2019re gonna need all hands on deck, because what this is with Cain is nothing compared to what\u2019s coming. What we\u2019re in the middle of here is a test to see just how frightened Republicans can be made at the first sign of trouble; and way too high a percentage of establishment Republicans failed the test. I know what some of you will say. “Look, we\u2019re conservatives. Family values, all that! We can\u2019t be seen defending a guy about who it is said might have sexually harassed a woman.” Wait until you know that he did before you throw him under the bus! Ninety-nine percent of establishment Republicans failed this test. Now, there\u2019s a plus side. The plus side is the American people still support and like Herman Cain. It doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s gonna get their votes, but he has their support in this instance.<\/p>\n
I guess there are a large number of people on our side, folks, who are never going to understand or never going to accept that we are in a war with collectivists and other assorted parasites who want to destroy the US economy as currently built — and if you show any kind of weakness, they come back at you in greater numbers. (See Oakland if you have any questions.) There was more patience for the O.J. Simpson verdict than there has been for Herman Cain. You want to talk about a rush to judgment? Politico, which consists of mainly left-wing stenographers from the Washington Post who started their own website so as to protect the Post name — stenographers for the Obama regime — they run around, they attack a man everybody says is a good and decent guy, who has flaws like all the rest of us.<\/p>\n
Republican blogs (some of them) and Ruling Class chatter abandon Herman Cain quicker than a carton of milk past its expiration date. Just like they did Newt. What did Newt do? Newt went out, bought his wife an expensive but affordable necklace, and he\u2019s accused of being incapable of managing money. This was the guy most responsible for delivering budget surpluses and balanced budgets not that many years ago. As I look at this week, it hasn\u2019t been all that good for Republican unity or courage. There\u2019s gonna be a nominee. One of these Republicans is going to be the nominee, and whoever it is is head and shoulders above Barack Obama and anybody else the Democrats could throw up in replacement if they decide to do that.<\/p>\n
And we might want to keep that in mind, since the election is a year away and the primaries are right around the corner. All this sloppy partisan gotcha reporting should have gotten 99% derision from establishment Republicans. That didn\u2019t happen, but there will be other opportunities for our side to show a little fortitude. I understand the fear. I understand the reluctance. “Oh, gosh, what if it\u2019s true? (sigh) I gotta really protect myself here. I\u2019ve gotta make sure that I don\u2019t say the wrong thing here so, this is really true, they can\u2019t come back and say I defended the guy. So what\u2019s the safest thing to do? Condemn him! Yep, it\u2019s the safest thing. He\u2019s not gonna be nominee anyway, so I\u2019ll just condemn him, and I\u2019ll show in a reverse racism way that I\u2019m really not a racist like the left says. I\u2019ll show I\u2019m not just supporting the guy \u2019cause he\u2019s black. I\u2019ll really show \u2019em how smart I am! I\u2019ll show \u2019em how well rounded I am; I\u2019ll show \u2019em how open-minded I am. I\u2019ll show the left,” and I don\u2019t care what you want to “show the left.” When that\u2019s your motivation for remaining credible, you lose it all with me.<\/p>\n
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The media ignored that and went after Gennifer Flowers as a slut, and they went and tried to find out all kinds of dirty information about Gennifer Flowers. In the meantime, later, Clinton subsequently apologized publicly to Mario the Pious for the remarks he had made on those tapes. In his deposition in January of 1998, while denying Kathleen Willey\u2019s sexual accusations against him, Clinton admitted that he had a sexual encounter with Gennifer Flowers. Now, that\u2019s the standard the media celebrates for handling these kinds of things. That\u2019s what we\u2019re supposed to accept? David Gregory would admire that? “That\u2019s a strategy! That\u2019s an organization for dealing with us! We like it when candidates have a strategy and an organization for dealing with us. <\/p>\n
“We don\u2019t like it when they\u2019re disorganized and no strategy and just scattered around out there, especially when they beat us,” and don\u2019t forget that Clinton settled with Paula Jones for $850,000. “Trailer park trash.” She didn\u2019t go to an Ivy League school. Let me ask a question, \u2019cause Bernie\u2019s right about this: The fact that Cain\u2019s accusers went to the Ivy League, that means instantly credible — and they tell the truth. They\u2019re serious people there in the Ivy League, just like us reporters. We\u2019re Ivy Leaguers, too. We\u2019re in the same club; you can\u2019t doubt us. <\/p>\n
“Well, what was Clinton doing toying around with trailer park trash in the first place? Why weren\u2019t you people in the media embarrassed? Why didn\u2019t you go to Clinton and say, “Look, if you\u2019re gonna do this, find some Ivy League babe so we can at least be proud of you? You\u2019re embarrassing all of us! First you had to go to Arkansas to be governor, you almost destroyed your wife by making her go, and now you\u2019re out running around with Arkansas trailer park trash and you\u2019re making us help you deny it? Couldn\u2019t she at least have been an Ivy League babe that you were diddling?” That never was said.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Mike in Clermont, Florida, welcome, sir, to the EIB Network and Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush. Twenty-five-year retired Air Force dittos from you and I learn something from you every single day and I appreciate it very much.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Listen, I just want to thank you for your courage in taking to task the Republican establishment. They don\u2019t have any idea how pissed we are, and I think that you\u2019re absolutely right: Their criticism is really embodied in the words of Dana Perino and Karl Rove. They\u2019re just too, too, quick to criticize Mr. Cain without any evidence at all, and there is no benefit of the doubt given to him.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, there\u2019s a… What\u2019s going on, and it\u2019s commonplace during elections and Republican primaries, is jockeying for power. Dana and Karl, I\u2019m sure, have their own candidate. I don\u2019t know who, but it\u2019s probably not Herman Cain; and so when they think a candidate steps in it, they are gonna be right there and pointing it out as they try to advance their own candidate. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on. What frustrates me about this, and I think a lot of people is, that it\u2019s not recognized for what it is. It\u2019s a hit on all of us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think they think if circle the wagons around Herman Cain they\u2019re gonna end up supporting Herman Cain\u2019s candidacy, which they obviously don\u2019t want to do, and that is the stumbling block for them — and I can\u2019t fault \u2019em for that. Everybody has their own candidate; everybody wants their candidate to win for a whole host of reasons. But this does illustrate — and you\u2019re very shrewd to spot it — that there are some among us who just don\u2019t accept or realize or want to deal with the situation as you and I see it, which is that we\u2019re in a war —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — with collectivists and parasites and Democrats and liberals to save our country.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And we know that, at the end of the day, any one of these Republicans is far more preferable than what we have now. That\u2019s the dividing line. That\u2019s it is difference. I think some of the establishment types, a lot of this is a game. It\u2019s their life, and it\u2019s their business, but it\u2019s a game — and the objective is to see who can win. Nothing wrong with that, either. Politics is about winning elections. But they just see the whole world in a different way than we do. I don\u2019t think they really think the debt\u2019s that big a problem. They don\u2019t think that all this spending is that big a problem. “Yeah, we need to get a handle on it,” but they don\u2019t think it\u2019s that destructive. They don\u2019t think it\u2019s that defining. It\u2019s not altering the very fabric of the country like we think it is. I\u2019m sure you agree with that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, absolutely I do. I agree also with the babe that said Herman Cain is a black man who “knows his place,” and he thinks that place is the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He does. (chuckles)<\/p>\n
CALLER: He does.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He has no problem with it. One thing I said about Herman Cain: He may not be a skilled liar, and he may not know how to run a cover-up, but he also does not retreat at the first sign of trouble. Herman Cain does not cave. Herman Cain believes that the United States of America should be number one. I can\u2019t fault him for that. I can\u2019t fault him for his motivations and his desires here. I think it\u2019s funny how many conservatives… There are a lot of people supporting Herman Cain. He\u2019s leading in the polls. Look at the number of conservative Republicans who think that Herman Cain\u2019s place is in the White House, compared to the number of so-called compassionate, colorblind, minority-supporting Democrats who don\u2019t want Herman Cain anywhere near it.<\/p>\n
Remember how they set it all up with Obama: Any criticism of Obama was racist. But they? They can criticize Herman Cain, and they can try to tame him out and there\u2019s no race involved! “Don\u2019t accuse us of playing the race card! That\u2019s ours alone to do! Only we get to call racism in politics and in this country! You, Limbaugh, and your ilk, you don\u2019t get to call racism! We are the ones who define it — and you\u2019re it and we\u2019re not!” They tell us, “Electing Barack Obama will go a long way toward dissolving the racial divide, and showing that our country has moved forward at an ever faster clip than anyone ever dreamed.” <\/p>\n
With Herman Cain, somehow none of that matters. None of that\u2019s relevant. Herman Cain is a threat, Herman Cain needs to be punished for daring to leave the plantation — hell, he was never on it — and if they have to play the race card, they\u2019ll happily do so. If they have to run a phony scandal up the flagpole hoping that it sticks, they\u2019ll do that. They\u2019re in the midst of trying. Lot of conservative Republicans think that Herman Cain\u2019s place should be in the White House, and a lot of conservative Republicans thus like Herman Cain because he knows his place. For the left, Herman Cain knowing his place means he\u2019s to shut up, grovel, say he\u2019s sorry, and then go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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