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RUSH: Melissa in Fort Worth, Texas. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thank you for taking my call. I wanted to get your opinion on why Herman Cain isn\u2019t getting more attention in the media, whether it\u2019s TV or print media. Half the time they don\u2019t even list him as a candidate for president, and the polls that they\u2019re, you know, reflecting, you know, various newspaper articles… I mean, when you see him at these Republican debates, I know that some of the time Fox has on that device that measures, you know, the audience response? And he seems to be getting the highest numbers. He seems to be, you know, very smart gentleman that a lot of people like. Yet he\u2019s not getting the media attention that I think that he very well deserves. I mean, if Herman Cain didn\u2019t go to the CNN Republican debate, I don\u2019t even know if his name would have ever been mentioned on CNN.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. I know what you mean. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t understand it. (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the best answer that I can give you when you\u2019re talking about people like CNN and others, I just think it\u2019s no more complicated than they don\u2019t think he can win. I\u2019ll bet you if you could get the producers, the assignment editors, the people behind the scenes that you never see who are responsible for what stories get covered — the people who are out there assigning, “Okay, Biff. I want you to go follow Herman Cain around a couple days. See what Herman Cain\u2019s doing” — those assignments aren\u2019t being made because I don\u2019t think these people think Herman Cain has a chance. I don\u2019t think they even think he\u2019s a serious candidate. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And by that they mean serious in terms of the ability to win, not that he\u2019s really serious —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — in meaning this; they just don\u2019t think he\u2019s got a chance.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a little bit like what you were talking about earlier, substance versus, you know, the Mitt Romneys of the world who have the perfect (garbled) hair.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, there\u2019s no question that that\u2019s a component, too, absolutely.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, he\u2019s definitely got some substance. It\u2019s unfortunate that the Republican Party is reducing itself to looks alone and whether or not somebody can read off of a teleprompter. (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know that the Republican Party has done that. Remember, the people telling me that that\u2019s what it\u2019s gonna take are Republicans. They were telling me that\u2019s what the Republicans better start doing. They better stop worrying about somebody who\u2019s pure, true, and blue on policy and substance; they better find somebody who can lie and is good-looking, cause that\u2019s what people want. The people are not deep, they\u2019re shallow, and they don\u2019t start paying attention \u2019til two days before the election (or three, maybe two weeks) and that\u2019s when you go after \u2019em big time. You don\u2019t waste any campaign money now. You don\u2019t waste a whole lot of time on debates. You wait \u2019til people are really paying attention, and you just hit \u2019em with good looks and say whatever you have to say to get elected. That was the theory I heard last night, and the theory was that\u2019s what Republicans don\u2019t do and that\u2019s why they lose. It\u2019s what the Democrats do do, and they win.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Then nobody goes to the polls to vote anyway, so (giggles) it\u2019s very unfortunate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, not true. Presidential races, the turn out has been pretty large last three, four times around.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, relative to maybe the — you know, the previous three —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Relative to previous presidential races, yeah, turn out has been pretty big.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I\u2019m like you. I heard that theory, and I know there\u2019s an element of truth to it to some people. The fact that that might describe a majority of voters, that\u2019s not pleasant to contemplate. But your question about Herman Cain. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever watched golf on television, but I\u2019ll give you a little analogy. During the Masters, Rory McIlroy was leading the tournament, and he was blowing everybody away (just as he did recently last weekend at the US Open). On Sunday, after the front nine, he had a meltdown, and they stopped covering him altogether. You couldn\u2019t get a single shot of Rory McIlroy. They stuck with the leaders. I was watching it, and I wanted to see McIlroy. I wanted to see: How is he handling this? And the people I was watching with said, “Eh, he\u2019s out of it, Rush. They haven\u2019t got time to show you people who aren\u2019t gonna win.” I said, “Well, I would like to see how he\u2019s dealing with this.” But Rory McIlroy went from three days of start-to-finish coverage like Tiger used to get, and the minute he dropped out of the lead by two strokes, you never heard of him. It\u2019s just the way the media is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So, are you telling me that the media determines who\u2019s gonna win over a year before the election and then decides —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No. No, no, no, no. I\u2019m telling you that that\u2019s why they\u2019re not covering who they\u2019re not covering now. Not that they\u2019re right. I\u2019m not telling you that they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, how can they win —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Also it\u2019s not their job —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — if they\u2019re not covered by the media? That\u2019s what the unfortunate part is because I think Herman Cain has a lot to offer and he\u2019s got a lot of substance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I agree, but it\u2019s not their job to get him coverage.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But they\u2019re covering people that — they\u2019re covering candidates that — didn\u2019t even attend some of the initial Republican debates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. They\u2019re covering candidates that they hope will embarrass the Republicans. They\u2019re covering candidates that they hope will make people not inclined to vote Republican.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s my point, that the liberal media —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s because media is not fair and balanced. The media, they\u2019re part of the Democrat political apparatus.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re always very shortsighted, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, for them, yeah, but it is what it is. So if Herman Cain is to get noticed, he\u2019s gonna have to do something himself that gets him noticed — and here comes the old debate. You do it with substance or you do it with, you know, walking around wearing women\u2019s underwear. Heck.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I don\u2019t want to mention any names out there \u2019cause I frankly don\u2019t particularly like the names I would have to mention. They\u2019re already making fun of Herman Cain and the way he talks on television. They\u2019re already doing that. Now, they never did that with the Bamster, as you know. It was just the exact opposite. Obama, oh, my God, look at the crease of his slacks. Oh, my God, what a smart guy. David Brooks said he was destined not just to be president, he was gonna be a great one because of the crease in his slacks. And we\u2019re supposed to rely on that, conservative columnist for the New York Times. That\u2019s the criteria which we are supposed to accept Obama being qualified. “Smart guy, very serious candidate, Rush, very, very serious, a man of incredible depth, you can hear it. He\u2019s incredibly nuanced. He\u2019s elegant in the way he speaks, very, very eloquent and elegant.” <\/p>\n

I remember the commentators were marveling at the way Obama spoke and put syllables together. I can just tell you they\u2019re out there making fun of the way Herman Cain talks, just like they make fun of everything else about Palin. They make fun of everything about Palin. They make fun of Romney about being a Mormon and being a cookie cutter Ken doll. I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re making fun of Pawlenty for but they\u2019re making fun of Pawlenty, but they\u2019re not making fun of Obama. Herman Cain, if I had to say, Herman probably represents everything the news media says does not exist. Herman Cain is articulate; he is very highly successful; he is a conservative Republican who is black; and that is what they tell you doesn\u2019t exist, and that is a primary problem that Herman Cain has. <\/p>\n

You identify yourself as a black conservative and you may as well be admitting that you\u2019re a whore or a prostitute, an Uncle Tom, you\u2019ve been bought off, whatever, you aren\u2019t real. It\u2019s not possible for a black person to be conservative. The way the media and the left look at this country, a black person who is conservative is a black person who would agree with the whole notion of slavery and would wanna be a slave owner. That\u2019s how bad it is that is how devoid and distanced from reality that they are. But I mean the media will not even admit that somebody like Herman Cain can exist. Look what they do to black Americans who identify themselves as conservatives. <\/p>\n

Now, if you want to talk genuine intelligence, if you want to talk real depth of education, Shelby Steele<\/a>, writer, professor, economics, stuff appears in the Wall Street Journal. Thomas Sowell<\/a>, a brilliant economist, philosopher, an incredibly deep individual. Our sometimes guest host, Walter Williams, ditto. These people don\u2019t exist. They are black conservatives. They are traitors. They don\u2019t deserve any legitimacy at all as far as the media is concerned, as far as the left is concerned. They don\u2019t even deserve respect. Legitimacy of any kind. And, of course, it\u2019s the height of unfairness. That\u2019s what it is. And that\u2019s one of the hard, cold realities of politics. It is what it is, and you have to deal with what it is day in and day out. <\/p>\n

Politics is the epitome, just like meritocracy in sports, it\u2019s the epitome of there\u2019s no such thing as fair. And a lot of people think that life is not fair and that the attempt to make it fair, thus the attempt to legislate outcomes, is destructive and devoid of any reality, because it cannot be done. Genuine fairness has been defined by these people as everybody is the same, everybody finishes the same. Everybody gets up, if they survive the abortion. They go to work. They get a job, and they all earn the same amount of money. They all live in the same kind of house. They all pollute just as little or as much as their neighbors. They all have the same kinds of cars. They all have the same kind of kids, who all go to the same kind of college. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the utopia. Everybody\u2019s the same. And to make that happen we\u2019re gonna take away money from people who don\u2019t conform, people who have too much, whose car is too big, whose houses are too big, “Don\u2019t worry about it. We\u2019ll take what they\u2019ve got and we\u2019ll give it to you and we\u2019ll make everybody the same.” Flies in the face of what everybody left, right, independent, Libertarian, everybody in politics knows there is no such thing as fairness. Not only is there no fairness in politics, there really isn\u2019t any fairness in life, when you get down to brass tacks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jerry, Little Rock, Arkansas, hi. You\u2019re on Open Line Friday with El Rushbo. Great to have you here, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, good to talk to you. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Longtime listener, first-time caller. I think you have left your putt a little bit short on your analysis of Herman Cain, though, and why the media is ignoring him. I agree with your first premise, hey, they don\u2019t think he\u2019s gonna win so let\u2019s ignore him. But I think the overriding factor is the traditional media sees the world through this prism of liberalism and they can\u2019t see straight and they see a black man with conservative, articulate values as a threat to Obama, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re ignoring him. Can you imagine Obama and Herman Cain having a debate with the topic of race in the United States or minorities in the United States, Cain would school Obama just like Netanyahu schooled him on the Palestinian issue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You may have a point. I hope you\u2019re right about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that\u2019s exactly right. This is how these people think. I know how they think. I told your screener this. Obama went to Occidental College for two years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah, I know how they think, too. And in a lot of cases they\u2019re not really threatened by some of our nominees. In other cases they are. I hope you\u2019re right about that with Cain. You could well be, too.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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