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Now, you would think, folks, that the free press — a free press — would be embarrassed doing the regime\u2019s work for them like this day in and day out, but we don\u2019t have a free press. Where has there been any reporting of anything like this ever about Obama or his campaign or people involved? So they\u2019re trying to take Herman Cain out now. The Washington Post is still assaulting Marco Rubio, and I\u2019ll tell you why. I\u2019ll tell you why. They are deathly afraid. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: Just this afternoon on the Fox business channel, Fox Business Network, they talked to Herman Cain. They were on Cain\u2019s bus down in Talladega, Alabama; and one of the Fox correspondents, a guy named “Barnes,” said, “The last presidential candidate to come to Talladega was former Alabama Governor George Wallace, a segregationist.”<\/p>\n
CAIN: I remember being on the bus in Atlanta riding as a young teenager where I would see the sign at the front of the bus that said, “Whites seat from front. Colored seat from rear,” and I had to sit in the back of the bus because of the greatness of America and the fact that we have this ability to change, that\u2019s one of the things that has made us great. And today I don\u2019t have to sit in the back of the bus. I own the bus, and my picture is on the outside! That\u2019s the greatness of America — and, I\u2019m running for president of the United States of America! It doesn\u2019t get any better than that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Herman Cain, who admits that he was around when everybody was down for the struggle. He remembers having to go to the back of the bus. Now he owns the bus. This kind of optimism is why Herman Cain\u2019s not fading away. You know, he\u2019s the latest non-Romney. There have been many non-Romneys, and they have popped up — they have shot up in the polls — and then they\u2019ve lost ground. Herman Cain hasn\u2019t yet. He\u2019s still up there, and a lot of people… I\u2019ve got some friends who want to do fundraisers for the guy. This support for Herman Cain is real, and a lot of these people that I know who want to do fundraisers for Herman Cain are businesspeople as well as being oriented toward politics. So there\u2019s something happening here. <\/p>\n
There are many facets to this campaign. You\u2019ve got Rick Perry now saying that, “Ah, I\u2019m not sure that I\u2019m gonna be in these debates anymore. This next debate may be my last one,” and who can blame him? He doesn\u2019t do well in these debates, and these debates really aren\u2019t debates. Who is it, Newt and Cain are gonna do a private Lincoln-Douglas kind of debate. You know what ticket prices for that thing have reached up? Thousand dollars! A thousand dollars to be in the hall, 200 bucks pay-per-view for a Lincoln-Douglas style debate between Newt and Herman Cain. So the dynamic is changing, and nine candidates on the stage with 30 seconds here or a minute there. You really don\u2019t have debates. You have glorified press conferences with the moderators choosing who gets what questions and how much time to respond and all of that. <\/p>\n
Some people do well in formats like that, and others don\u2019t. Some people might say, “But, Rush, it\u2019s a mistake for Perry to drop out.” Folks, it really isn\u2019t. I remember when I was a deejay — struggling young deejay long ago in my career — one of the radio stations I worked at was in Pittsburgh, and the program director decided that the number one song in the market we weren\u2019t gonna play it. He didn\u2019t like it. He thought it was culturally degenerative. (This is in the seventies.) So he says, “We\u2019re not gonna play it,” and all of us jocks said, “What do you mean, you\u2019re not gonna play it? The competition\u2019s playing it; they\u2019re gonna kill us.” He said, “Nobody will know. You can\u2019t be hurt by a song you don\u2019t play,” meaning: People won\u2019t tune out of a song they don\u2019t play. <\/p>\n
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One on one debates that go for an hour and a half, even if they are the staged TV kind with the League of Women Voters format, that is a different ball of wax. It is a different animal. So that\u2019s Perry\u2019s decision. Cain and Newt have said to hell with it in their own way. They\u2019re gonna have their own private, two-man debate and charging big bucks for it — and I like this because in both cases it is a rejection of the conventional wisdom. It\u2019s a rejection of the conventional system saying, “This is how we do things. This is how we elect a president: We have nine candidates on a stage, and we call it a debate.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s really just an elongated press conference with the moderators playing gotcha,” which is fine. I\u2019m not being critical of that. That\u2019s what it is. These guys have decided in their own way they don\u2019t want to be part of it. They don\u2019t play that way. If these formats don\u2019t play to their strengths, don\u2019t do it — and Perry\u2019s obvious operating philosophy is: If he doesn\u2019t do it, he can\u2019t flop. If you stop and think about it, it makes perfect sense. I mean, everybody\u2019s talking about after each debate how, “Ehhhh, he just didn\u2019t quite get there. He looks like he\u2019s struggling for words,” or whatever the criticism is — and also part and parcel of the theory is that debates are by no means the only thing that contribute to somebody\u2019s winning an election or a primary — and they aren\u2019t. <\/p>\n
In fact, they may rank pretty low. They can do more damage than they can do good, is the bottom line. You can ace debate after debate after debate. It is said that Romney does. But, look: 70% of Republicans still say after Romney\u2019s acing of all of these debates that they prefer somebody else. The non-Romney flavor of the moment happens to be Herman Cain — who, by the way, interestingly, Obama wants to move back to the back of the bus. I mean, that\u2019s an obvious conclusion one could draw. Yeah, the phrase is “What\u2019s cut won\u2019t flop,” and it\u2019s true. You\u2019re editing a television show or a movie and you\u2019re putting the final product together and you cut something out.<\/p>\n
“Well, we\u2019re gonna cut that because they can\u2019t flop.” Actually, what this stems from, if you read any of the philosophy of the great artists, almost all of them will tell you that what makes great art is what they take out of it, not what is added to it. Whether they\u2019re trying to be complex or simplistic, it\u2019s still what they take out — and it has also the root: “Brevity is the soul of wit.” All of this stuff, all of these different philosophies are tied together, and they basically say, “Play to your strengths and avoid as best you can your weaknesses,” and that\u2019s what people here are deciding to do rather than continue to butt their heads against a wall that is immovable. (interruption)<\/p>\n
Mmm-hmm? (interruption) Is…? (interruption) Okay, the question being asked by the official program observer is, “Isn\u2019t being articulate a primary qualification for the job?” Yeah, undeniable. So if you\u2019re not articulate in a particular format, get out of it. How can you be hurt if you\u2019re not articulate, if you don\u2019t go anywhere where you are un-articulate or inarticulate? That\u2019s the theory. Now, the other side of it is the news is out that Perry is leaving the debates, and of course what will be the public relations aspect of that and what will his opponents say? “Oh, Rick Perry can\u2019t handle it! He\u2019s quitting! He can\u2019t handle the pressure, admitting he doesn\u2019t have the ability,” whatever they say about it. Hey, it\u2019s the big leagues. (interruption)<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know how articulate Eisenhower was. You know, Eisenhower is thought of as a great president, he really is. But Eisenhower fits the mold of what I\u2019m talking about. Eisenhower didn\u2019t do anything. Eisenhower comes out of World War II. What did he learn in World War II? “Your enemies, you shoot \u2019em.” Okay, so he\u2019s elected president. He figures out or somebody tells him, “You can\u2019t shoot Congress.” He says, “Okay, fine,” and goes and plays golf and he becomes a member of the Augusta National and he joins a couple clubs out in Palm Springs and he\u2019s on the golf course all the time — and a few other places, but he didn\u2019t do all that much. He was considered a great president. Yeah, it was a somewhat pre-TV, yeah, but at the same time we were also in a postwar boom. He didn\u2019t do anything. He didn\u2019t mess it up. Just let things go, let things happen, unlike the meddling that we\u2019ve got every day from this bunch, who can\u2019t leave well enough alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Herman Cain, by the way, continues to do well in the polls. Several hit pieces on him and his staff are out this morning. From the New York Times: “As Cain Promotes Management Skills, Ex-Aides Tell of Chaos.” The article goes on to say Herman “Cain\u2019s presidential campaign has generated much promise … But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n