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RUSH: I want to go back to me, actually, last Thursday on this program when this Weiner stuff first raised its ugly head, erupted, or what have you. I remember that day I didn\u2019t want to have to focus on this rotgut. I was dragged into it like I\u2019m being dragged into it today. Where this guy is on issues is the problem with Tony Weiner. But, anyway, this is what I said last Thursday<\/a>, just a reminder.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: These people who seek to rule over us, who seek endless power over us — Weiner is part of this Democrat cabal that wants total authoritarian power over the people of this country. They are bullies and yet what do they do? They pose as wise, intelligent people, smarter than everybody else, so special. Like Geithner. We were told we had to put up with his cheating on his taxes \u2019cause he\u2019s the only guy in Washington that could have shepherded us through the TARP business. A guy who\u2019s never had a job in the real world, never had a job in the private sector, was the only guy capable of shepherding this country through this mess that was TARP and the financial crisis. But Weiner is just part of this crowd that we are told is better than us, more special than we are. We dare not even look at them in their presence! We don\u2019t have that right, they are so elevated above us. So wise, so intelligent, beyond the people that they seek to control. But really what are they? They\u2019re flesh and blood and they are flawed like everybody else. They are perhaps more deeply flawed than anybody else because they bring with them the baggage of hypocrisy. They\u2019re no better than everybody else.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No better than everybody else, but they seek to rule us. They seek to live our lives for us. Okay. So there\u2019s my take on him last Thursday. Last night on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS, they had an exchange out there with Politico columnist Roger Simon and Mark Halperin from TIME Magazine about Weiner and the revelation that he was the one who sent the photo to a woman via Twitter and then lied to cover it up. Listen to these guys as you recall what I just said.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I\u2019ve asked Eliot Spitzer and he said there\u2019s something about sort of the ego of being in politics, et cetera, et cetera.<\/p>\n

SIMON: It\u2019s the very intelligence of these men like Spitzer, like Weiner — how bright they are, how quick they are, uh, how successful they are — that gives them a sense of invulnerability, that nothing bad could really happen to them because nothing bad ever has.<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: You won\u2019t meet any smarter people in politics than those two guys. Just won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Spitzer and Weiner, Mark Halperin: “You won\u2019t meet any smarter people in politics than those two guys.” I told my wife, I told her yesterday: “You wait and see how this is spun. Before it\u2019s all said and done we\u2019re gonna get stories about this is so typical of type A guys, powerful men who do great things. One woman\u2019s not enough! They have to spread their seed all over the place, make sure that there are countless others that are born in their image. We\u2019re gonna get stories about how this is an attribute, a personality attribute, a great characteristic. Just like in the mid-nineties how telling lies was actually helpful \u2019cause it spared people hurt feelings and all this.” <\/p>\n

These people make me right so many times a week that I lose count. They\u2019re so smart! They\u2019re smarter than the rest of us. They are allowed to do this because they are so smart. They are a cut above — and here\u2019s Mark Halperin saying you won\u2019t find a couple of smarter guys than Spitzer and Weiner. Why…? Why in the world go talk to Spitzer about this in the first place? What\u2019s Spitzer doing commenting on it? Yeah, in fact, folks, let\u2019s put itthis way: This is what they want us to believe. “Weiner? Spitzer? Epitome of brilliance, intelligence that is a cut above!” So if some blithering idiot had done the same thing, I guess we would have to believe that it was a flash of brilliance to send a picture of yourself in your underwear via Twitter to some babe would have been a flash of brilliance — \u2019cause these are the smartest guys in politics you\u2019ll ever find.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Starting in Arlington, Virginia, this is Seth. Welcome, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I\u2019m looking at this and I\u2019m seeing two adults exchanging — or actually seven if there\u2019s six women, exchanging pictures in a consensual way. And I guess it\u2019s none of my business, it was none of the reporter\u2019s business, it was none of anyone else\u2019s business. How is this different — I mean you\u2019re talking about how smart everybody is, you tell us how smart you are every day, but how is this different than you going to, you know, this sexual tourist destination of Dominican Republic with a bottle of Viagra and having that splayed all over the headlines, how do you like that? Why is this different?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but what you describe about me isn\u2019t true. And I guess what you\u2019re suggesting here is that getting caught having sex affairs is only stupid when Republicans do it. You\u2019re repeating Internet rumors based on hatred and misinformation and typical brainlessness on the left. None of that which you described took place whatsoever. But, you know what? Even if it had, it doesn\u2019t change what Weiner did. And it doesn\u2019t change the way Weiner has handled it, and it doesn\u2019t change what Bill Clinton did, and it doesn\u2019t change Bill Clinton lying under oath. It doesn\u2019t change any of the reprobate activities that the Democrats and leaders of that party have engaged in. It doesn\u2019t change a thing. <\/p>\n

If you want to take refuge and if you want to seek comfort, if you want to try to excuse this depravity by believing BS and believing lies, and getting your jollies by calling here and repeating that stuff, you might as well have thrown in some of the quotes that I never said about slavery when trying to buy a part of the St. Louis Rams. But it\u2019s people like you who present the rest of us with the greatest challenge we have in saving the country, because general glittering jewels of colossal ignorance like you and your hate-filled partisanship are primarily responsible. People just like you are primarily responsible for the precarious position this great nation finds itself in, because you can\u2019t be counted on for genuine decent citizenship. You can\u2019t be counted on to protect this country when it\u2019s under assault internally. You seek your jollies in false victories over your political enemies while your country is in the process of going down in flames. It\u2019s people like you who try to make excuses for reprobates like Weiner and Clinton and so forth while immersing yourself in lies to make yourself feel good that present a problem for the rest of us. I feel sorry for you. You\u2019re probably capable of much more than you\u2019re immersing yourself in.<\/p>\n

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