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RUSH: Coronado, California. Bob, I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thanks. Elections-have-consequences dittos, Rush. Here\u2019s my comment. You mentioned that following the Brexit vote, if anything bad happens financially or whatever, it will be attributed to be due to the Brexit vote. And I thought you were gonna say something somewhat different, but I think it\u2019s just taking it one step farther. If there is turmoil in the financial markets that\u2019s ongoing and there\u2019s perceived to be just bad outcomes, I think you\u2019ll see people start to say, “This is what we\u2019ll have with Donald Trump. Xenophobic, anti-Muslim, so forth.” Perhaps in the way that Britain implemented theirs, they\u2019re gonna say, “See? We don\u2019t want this to happen with Trump.” I was just curious to see what your thoughts are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think they\u2019re gonna blame as much as they can on Trump anyway. I think you\u2019re right. My point was not to exclude Trump. But I was speaking within the confines of this specific event, the Brexit vote. The opponents are gonna blame everything that happens on the vote, and they\u2019re gonna have the media with them for the most part. It\u2019s gonna be a great thing to watch, lesson-wise.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve tried to make the point here that winning an election is not gonna change it. The ideas that accompany that victory, the ideas and the policies that are related to those ideas that are implemented after you win the election. And then it\u2019s not just one election; you have to keep winning elections. You have to keep defeating liberals, and it\u2019s the same thing here in the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n

This is one vote, but they\u2019ve got two years now, and a lot can happen in these two years. The elites can do a lot to gum up the works these next two years and then have it all blamed on the vote, all blamed on the attitude to separate from the European Union. Now, since immigration is central in this, there\u2019s no question that Democrats here are gonna try to blame similar things on Trump.<\/line><\/p>\n

But Trump is a different ball of wax. I\u2019ve been trying to say for I don\u2019t know how many months now that the traditional political playbook in destroying and attacking a political opponent is not gonna work on Trump, because Trump\u2019s connection with his supporters or his audience is far deeper and far greater than most voters\u2019 connection with a candidate that\u2019s very popular. Reagan had the connection.<\/p>\n

But take some of the most popular presidents we\u2019ve had in recent memory. Kennedy. JFK had the connection. LBJ didn\u2019t, even though he won a massive landslide. And I\u2019m talking about with his… Clinton had it for a host of reason. Hillary doesn\u2019t. Hillary Clinton, no matter what… Do you know what she did yesterday? She was reading her response to Trump on the teleprompter, and the teleprompter had the word (sigh) in parentheses meaning she was supposed to sigh. She read the word! She read the word, not realizing it!<\/p>\n

Obviously, she didn\u2019t even rehearse it. But she read the word. It was in parentheses, and it was meant to tell her, “Sigh after this line.” She read the word. She does not have this connection. So these people that think that they can take something — even Trump today, with what happened. Trump happened to be in Scotland on the very day, the morning after the Brexit vote. He\u2019s there to open his golf course in Turnberry, and, lo and behold, the first thing he talked about was not the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n

He talked about his golf course and how damn good it is. He pointed to the lighthouse behind and said, “You know what? I\u2019ve even built suites in the lighthouse. Nobody else has suites in lighthouses, but I have suites in the lighthouse.” And the media says, “How in the world can you do this? You\u2019re here, you\u2019re in Great Britain, you\u2019re in the UK, and they just had the Brexit vote, and you\u2019re talking about your golf course?” Trump says, “Yeah, and you know what? The falling pound is even gonna help my business here.”<\/line><\/p>\n

And they said, “You can\u2019t do that! You can\u2019t, in the midst of calamity, talk about how it all benefits you!”<\/p>\n

Trump says, “Why not? It will. It\u2019s not just gonna benefit me; it\u2019s gonna benefit other businesses here in the UK. It\u2019s gonna help tourism, it\u2019s gonna help exports,” and then he got on to what it means. He supported the people taking their country back, exactly what he\u2019s talking about doing here. But they try to attach these standard political theories and playbook procedures to him and it just does not… (interruption) Well, yeah, the polling data was all wrong. The polling data had the “leave” people losing. This is another thing that\u2019s got \u2019em out of whack over there today.<\/p>\n

I mean, all these institutions they think they control, the elites, they seem less and less solid, less and less dependable.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of head scratching going on.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was “the Brexit Effect.” I think there\u2019s a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn\u2019t any question about it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Scott in Greeley, Colorado. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Praise the Lord Rush Limbaugh\u2019s on. I\u2019ve been with you from the beginning, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What a great day. As a lifelong conservative and Trump supporter, I finally have something in common with most of the UK voters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is wonderful to be in solidarity with another big group of people, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, conservatives like me for years and years have been too stupid to understand the experts, and we keep voting the wrong way. I just feel great to have more people in my camp as stupid as I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you feel like you\u2019re on the winning side here. I understand that. (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) So hopefully I have enough sense to keep on being stupid.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whatever works, man.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thanks again, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is that it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to point out how not listening to the experts might change the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I see. So you wanted to revel in your stupidity and marvel at how it\u2019s triumphing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I didn\u2019t let education interfere with my learning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you go. All right. Well, I appreciate the call. Thanks much, Scott.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: A couple of days, maybe three days ago on this program (the days run together; I forget exactly when), we were discussing campaigns and expenditures, buying commercials and so forth. And it was around the time that Hillary had started running a million-dollar ad campaign trying to define Trump as temperamentally unfit for the office and intellectually unfit. No experience. It\u2019s dangerous to let Trump anywhere near the nuclear codes and the push button and so forth.<\/p>\n

And it became obvious that Trump was not responding to any of it \u2019cause he didn\u2019t have any money. He didn\u2019t have much in the bank at all, to the tune of three-point-some-odd million dollars, whereas Hillary has something like (I don\u2019t know; I forget the number), $35 million or $40 million that she can legally spend now president the point was made that the Democrats did the same thing to Mitt Romney back in 2012 before Romney could spend the money that he had raised.<\/p>\n

The money that he raised was only spendable post-convention, so that\u2019s when they running all these ads that are characterizing Romney as a rich, insensitive, out of touch, aloof nerd who loved having his dog on the roof of the station wagon, who didn\u2019t care when the wife of an employee dies with cancer. And so the media theme was, “June is when you win the presidency,” because that\u2019s what they thought Hillary was doing. Hillary was running ads condemning Trump, characterizing Trump, marginalizing Trump.<\/line><\/p>\n

Trump was not responding to it, didn\u2019t have the money to respond to it, and so they\u2019re think, “It\u2019s over. It\u2019s over.” They\u2019re doing it again. They\u2019re just doing to Hillary — and Hillary\u2019s doing to Trump — what they did to Trump, and they thought it was over. They\u2019re ecstatic. And there were some Trump people to whom all of this came as a surprise. They think Trump has endless money; he\u2019s self-funding his campaign. He has not spent a lot of time fundraising.<\/p>\n

But he has begun to do some joint fundraising efforts with the RNC, which is its own subject. I\u2019m not gonna touch on that now. Here\u2019s the point. I had people saying, “Is this gonna hurt Trump? Is it gonna hurt? He\u2019s gotta run commercials! He\u2019s gotta run commercials! He\u2019s not running commercials! Hillary\u2019s out running commercials!” I said, “It may, but in this campaign…” I may be falling back on it too much, folks, I\u2019ll admit.<\/p>\n

But I still maintain that you cannot treat Trump, analyze Trump, destroy Trump the way politics says you destroy people that are running for office. I don\u2019t think the standard, ordinary operating procedures work. And the reason they don\u2019t… (interruption) Why did it work on Romany? Why would they run ads? For crying out loud, stop and think about this for a second. Here\u2019s a guy, Mitt Romney, who may be the nicest gentleman in the entire political realm in 2012, just as a man.<\/p>\n

In terms of character, in terms of how you define nice, how you define polite, how you define respectful, there\u2019s no better example of any of that than Mitt Romney. So you ask the question, “Well, why does that stuff work, then, and on whom does it work?” So you run an ad claiming that Romney is an absolute unfeeling, mean-spirited animal hater because in the example they gave he put his dog on the roof of the station wagon during the family vacation. Why does it work? Why did it stick?<\/p>\n

And there is an answer.<\/p>\n

And then why, when they ran the ads about guy\u2019s wife dying with cancer…? Remember this? This was a serious series of ads, and it was deadly effective. They had this guy angry who used to work for Romney, talking about how his wife got cancer. His wife died, and this guy supposedly went to Romney and Romney didn\u2019t care. And that just fit the Democrat mold all of Republican conservative to a T. “They\u2019re rich and they don\u2019t care about the little guy.”<\/p>\n

Well, why did it stick?<\/line><\/p>\n

Why does any of that stuff stick? And I maintain that it stuck because Romney did not have and never did have a large group of supporters that were personally attached, connected, and loyal to him. What he had was a bunch of people voting Republican who were also opposed to Hillary or Obama or anybody with a D next to their name. But he didn\u2019t have this deep, connected, huge band of supporters who were never going to abandon him no matter what anybody said about him.<\/p>\n

And the more outlandish things he said, the deeper the connection. Well, Trump has that. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t think they can destroy Trump the way that they\u2019re trying to destroy Trump over this thing in Scotland today. This is a perfect example. Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote. He just happened to be there. Did he design this or is this just the fate of luck?<\/p>\n

Well it doesn\u2019t matter the answer; he\u2019s there.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s in Scotland, and he\u2019s doing a big deal. He long planned to tout his new golf course in Turnberry opening up. And because Trump sticks to his script and was there to open his golf course, that\u2019s what he first began talking about. He didn\u2019t open with a statement on the Brexit vote. And so here comes the media — right on cue — and any allies they have, once again lashing out at Trump as incompetent, unaware, insensitive.<\/p>\n

“He didn\u2019t even have the presence of mind to realize that he\u2019s right there after the Brexit! The first words out of his mouth should have been about that instead of about his project,” and then they\u2019re saying, “The next thing you don\u2019t do… Boy, what a big mistake! The next thing you don\u2019t do is you don\u2019t applaud economic calamity in the country where you happen to be because it\u2019ll benefit you,” which Trump did by saying, “Hey, you know what? The falling pound is gonna help my business.”<\/p>\n

Any other candidate, that stuff might work.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not gonna cause a single Trump supporter to abandon him.<\/p>\n

Not a single Trump supporter.<\/p>\n

There may be some who wish that he would have taken the occasion to first comment on the Brexit vote, but they\u2019re not going to abandon him. They\u2019re not gonna let the media do it. Romney people? The media could separate his supporters from him, but they can\u2019t from Trump. They don\u2019t understand this yet. They think one of these times when they do a trick like this it\u2019s gonna work and they\u2019re gonna be able to really harm Trump.<\/p>\n

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Okay, let me close the loop on this money business, because in talking about how the political professionals think they\u2019re gonna take Trump out. They\u2019re gonna use the usual playbook stuff to take Trump out like they took Romney out. They were only able to take Romney out because Romney — this not a criticism of Romney; please don\u2019t anybody call him up and say I\u2019m ripping him.  I\u2019m not.  I\u2019m simply telling you that the connection Trump has with his supporters, slash, audience, is unique.  Not everybody politician has it, and certainly not every public figure has such a connection with their audience.  <\/p>\n

But Trump does.  It\u2019s deep, it\u2019s loyal, and it is resilient.  And the only guy that can ruin it is Trump.  The media cannot come separate Trump from his supporters.  Only Trump can do that.  They\u2019re trying, they\u2019re gonna keep trying because they think they can.  They did it with Bush.  They did it with Romney.  They did it with McCain.  They did it with Bob Dole.  They\u2019re able to do it with practically every Republican that comes down the pike.  All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him Romney hadn\u2019t paid his taxes in ten years and it\u2019s over.  But these kinds of things aren\u2019t gonna work on Trump. <\/p>\n

Now, the reason I\u2019m going here is because those of you who told me last week, “He\u2019s gotta run commercials, he\u2019s gotta run commercials, he\u2019s gotta be able to have enough money to run commercials to respond to Hillary.”  There\u2019s a part of me that says, yeah, obviously, but I wish it wasn\u2019t necessary.  As I say, folks, I\u2019m old enough now that I\u2019ve been around and I\u2019ve seen a lot more things than I had seen when I started this program 27 years.  I have seen presidents in action.  I have been to the White House a number of times.  I have been to fundraisers.  I have been seen what happens at fundraisers.  I\u2019ve seen how elected officials treat fundraisers and donors and, believe me, the world revolves around them.  <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the most amazing thing.  I know people who have donated big to presidents.  I know people who have raised money big for presidents.  And they are treated like kings by the politician and his organization.  They are constantly invited to parties, seminars, private gatherings where the candidate or the president will explain policy, but only to them.  And they brag about it.  Which is fine.  That doesn\u2019t bother me.  You know, they\u2019ll come back from one of these things and they\u2019ll ask me, “Have you ever been to one?” knowing I haven\u2019t \u2019cause I\u2019m not a donor.  “No, I wasn\u2019t able to make the trip to big sandy.  No, I wasn\u2019t able to go hunting with the president.  What happened?”  “Oh, let me tell you,” and they start telling me all he told them about policy and the secret stuff that he doesn\u2019t tell anybody else.  <\/p>\n

What it made clear to me was, we\u2019ve all known that money is the mother\u2019s milk of politics, but it really, really, really is.  The people that raise it and the people that give it are the first people that get any elected officials attention.  Now, you know this.  I\u2019m not telling you anything that you don\u2019t know.  But I\u2019ve seen it up close, and it is obvious the potential for corruption that exists here.  Back in the early nineties, mid-nineties, a friend of mine — I\u2019ll just tell you, it was Bill Bennett.  Bill Bennett was coming off the success of his book called The Book of Virtues.  <\/p>\n

He\u2019d been education secretary for Ronaldus Magnus and he was actually toying with the idea of running for president. So he convened a meeting in a private banquet room downstairs at the Four Seasons hotel in Georgetown.  And I was invited there, and it was an exploratory meeting for one purpose, to see if it were possible. To ask a bunch of experts if it were possible to be elected president without having a major fundraising effort because Bill didn\u2019t want to do that.  <\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t want to do it.  I wouldn\u2019t want to spend every waking hour asking people for money.  A, I can\u2019t do it, it\u2019s just not my nature.  Secondly, you gotta pay \u2019em back.  Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that\u2019s the lesson with the Clintons.  Nobody gives you money because they like you.  We\u2019re talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it.  It has to be paid back somehow.  You pay it back with policy. You pay it book with an ambassadorship. You pay it back by continually inviting to dinners at the White House. You pay \u2019em back with whatever.  <\/p>\n

Bill wasn\u2019t interested.  And to a man in this meeting, everybody said it\u2019s not possible.  There were some consultants there and of course they would say it isn\u2019t possible, because if anybody gets elected president not spending money, they don\u2019t get paid.  And ever since then I was refocused here with this situation with Trump.  Okay, Hillary\u2019s out there running her besmirch-and-impugn campaign.  Trump doesn\u2019t have a whole lot of money in the bank to respond to it right now so he\u2019s not.  And people are telling me how bad this is, and I say, “You know, it may not be.”  I said, “You\u2019re falling into the trap of believing everything that\u2019s in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says you can\u2019t do anything without money.  Trump has.”  <\/p>\n

Now, admittedly it was primary election, but Trump hasn\u2019t spent a lot of money.  Not compared to — I mean, Jeb Bush had a $115 million super PAC, and he has six delegates.  It\u2019s not a dream, but it\u2019s something I do think about.  Wouldn\u2019t it be just great if somebody could actually get elected without having to spend all that time raising money?  Wouldn\u2019t it be great if somebody could get elected president without having to pay all the donors back?  Wouldn\u2019t it be fabulous if somebody could get elected president without this giant due bill?  <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, don\u2019t misunderstand.  Some of the donors are — many of them are good people and they\u2019re donating because their ideas are those embodied by the candidate and that\u2019s really what they\u2019re doing, they\u2019re promoting the ideas.  But many of them are desirous of things in addition to that.  So when I see Trump not respond \u2019cause he can\u2019t spend the money, I\u2019m secretly hoping it isn\u2019t gonna hurt him.  <\/p>\n

I would love for Hillary\u2019s massive ad campaign to be pointless and worthless.  I would love for it to bomb out.  And you know what?  If you look at the position data, it isn\u2019t hurting Trump.  Whatever ad campaign she ran last week or is still running, if you look, if you pay attention to the Drive-By Media, they are shocked that Trump has not been destroyed already.  They can\u2019t believe that Trump is still leading her in two battleground states.  They can\u2019t believe that he\u2019s within, what is it, five or six points, they can\u2019t believe it.  Because Hillary\u2019s been running all these ads. Hillary\u2019s been doing a good job of portraying Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament. And Trump hasn\u2019t reacted to it. And Trump\u2019s been making boneheaded statements out there like going after the judge for being a Mexican.  <\/p>\n

They can\u2019t believe it.  They simply can\u2019t believe.  It\u2019s like David “Rodham” Gergen the other day, after Trump\u2019s speech that just eviscerated Hillary, and that didn\u2019t cost him any money.  And that speech, folks, that was a grand slam of a speech.  It upset the media, it upset Hillary, and there still hasn\u2019t been anybody come out yet and say that none of it was true.  David “Rodham” Gergen tried, if you recall.  David “Rodham” Gergen goes on CNN and says (imitating Gergen), “You know, you can\u2019t quote, you can\u2019t slander, you can\u2019t lie about people like that, quoting from that discredited book by Peter Schweizer.”  <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not discredited.  Peter Schweizer\u2019s book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited.  It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post.  A bunch of Drive-By Media fact-checkers, there\u2019s a story about how CNN ended up with big egg on their face and were profoundly embarrassed.  They had a couple of fact-checkers and they put \u2019em up on camera, they were gonna just destroy this book, and they couldn\u2019t, because they can\u2019t find anything wrong in it.  And they made a cardinal error.  Same thing like you never grant immunity if you\u2019re a lawyer, you don\u2019t grant immunity to a witness not knowing what he\u2019s gonna say.  <\/p>\n

Well, they\u2019re out there all saying that this book has been discredited. “None of it\u2019s true. The Clinton Foundation does nothing but donate to charities.” They can\u2019t find any evidence that what Schweizer has written about the Clintons and their foundation and the fund-raising and the getting paid for speeches is wrong. They can\u2019t find anything where he\u2019s wrong.  The book has not been “discredited.”  So Trump delivers this massive speech.  It hit home run after home run after home run.  <\/p>\n

It hit Hillary Clinton in ways the Republican Party has never, ever gone after her before. It was successful.  It didn\u2019t cost him a dime. It cost him the time of whatever staging it was at his own hotel down there in SoHo, and then the benefit was the media\u2019s out there following it up by saying it\u2019s filled with innuendo and lies — maybe even libel, slander in there and the Schweizer book! (And… Zip.) So I was telling these people, “I think it\u2019d be great, I think it would be fabulous if somebody had whatever it takes to overcome this need for money.”  <\/line><\/p>\n

Remember, the conventional wisdom is, “Yeah, you can do this like Trump has done it during the primaries, buuuut once you get to the general, it\u2019s not about national votes.  It\u2019s about states!  It\u2019s about swing states.  It\u2019s about battleground states.  And you\u2019ve gotta have targeted expenditures, great ads running against your opponent in those swing states.” Trump doesn\u2019t have any of this, and he\u2019s leading in two of the three swing states.  <\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t you love it if all of this could be accomplished without having to raise a billion dollars or a hundred million, even, or whatever?  Believe me, it is a limiting factor.  I know it\u2019s one of these necessities for 99% of the people that get into politics.  But I am one of these people that think not having to pay it back and not owing anybody for it because you didn\u2019t take it, would be one of the most liberating aspects of any candidate I\u2019ve seen in my life.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re still watching Fox right now.  They\u2019re ripping Trump for promoting his golf course with the first words out of his mouth in Scotland today.  Why not?  He\u2019s got the world tuning in to him, and he\u2019s got his brand-new golf course ready to go, including suites in the lighthouse.  He knows he\u2019s gonna eventually get them to Brexit result, but why not promote his business?  That\u2019s who he is! He\u2019s being who he is.  He\u2019s genuine.  Isn\u2019t this what people have said they want?  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Eric in New Ulm, Minnesota. It\u2019s great to have you here on the EIB Network.  Hi. <\/p>\n

CALLER:  I can\u2019t tell you how excited I am for this.  I\u2019ve been listening to you since I was probably six years old.  My dad got me into it, you know, right from the beginning.  I\u2019m 33 now. <\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH:  Well, you\u2019re a Rush Baby. <\/p>\n

CALLER:  Pretty much, yeah. (chuckles) <\/p>\n

RUSH:  A real live Rush Baby.  Cool. <\/p>\n

CALLER:  Never thought I\u2019d get the chance to talk to you, so it\u2019s a pretty big honor for me. <\/p>\n

RUSH:  I appreciate it.  Thank you very much.  Same for me.  I\u2019m glad you got through. <\/p>\n

CALLER:  It\u2019s exciting.  Anyway, just today I have a revelation about stuff that I heard you talk about as far back as… Maybe 1992, I think, was the first time I heard you mention it.  It referred to an unseen silent majority that the media doesn\u2019t talk about and Uncle Sam doesn\u2019t talk about, and everybody points the other way. There\u2019s this group of people that sort of under the radar.  And when it really gets awful, you know, that\u2019s the group of people that steps up and stands out and says eventually, “Look, you know, we\u2019re tired of what\u2019s going on, and we just want to tell you what we want.”  And when I was investigating this Brexit business, I began to think — \u2019cause I heard polls as early as yesterday morning, saying it was done. I think it was a 75% chance of staying in. <\/p>\n

RUSH:  Right. <\/p>\n

CALLER:  And, you know, as if we believe polls anymore. <\/p>\n

RUSH:  Polling data was all wrong on this from the get-go, too. <\/p>\n

CALLER:  Well, yeah, \u2019cause I was thinking, “Yeah, they\u2019re probably gonna stay. They\u2019re probably gonna stay,” because like everybody else — even though I don\u2019t want to believe a lot of things that they say — there\u2019s so much doom-and-gloom, I absorb it. <\/p>\n

RUSH:  It\u2019s seductive.  I know it takes a conscious effort every day to stay vigilant and not fall prey to the traps the media leave.  It\u2019s hard to do, even for somebody as accomplished at it as I.  And never forget this when you\u2019re reading polling data, Eric.  People that do polls today use them for shaping public opinion as well as reflecting public opinion.  They use polls to make news, which ought not be the case.  The silent majority, that\u2019s actually an invention of Richard Nixon\u2019s.  But I\u2019m glad you called.  It\u2019s great that you got through. <\/p>\n

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