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This is not a putdown. I\u2019m not putting her down. I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand. I\u2019m simply stating the case. She is what she is. She\u2019s a Brit. Her husband is Harry Evans, used to run — What was the publisher? What was the book company, Doubleday or something? He used to run a big publishing house, published “Primary Colors,” book by “Anonymous” that &lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/www.salon.com\/media\/media960718.html”>Joe Klein wrote&lt;\/a>. So they\u2019re big. I mean, they\u2019re huge, big in the literary crowd in New York, and they largely… You will not, nobody ever will dare in any venue, gossip column, news column, nobody ever will utter anything but total love and devotion for Tina Brown because they\u2019re scared of her. Folks, I don\u2019t want to name any names, but I didn\u2019t know who she was when I got to New York. Didn\u2019t take me long to figure it out. I had Republicans (you\u2019d know the names) call me up all giddy when they were invited to a Tina Brown dinner party and I said, “Hmm, maybe this is somebody I should like to be invited to dinner parties. Well, hell, if this is what\u2019s happening!” <\/line>This is before I had my head screwed on right about this and knew what was going on. I\u2019m just telling you all this. This is who she is. I mean, nobody watches her show. To me it\u2019s a clear microcosm of where the left is. Nobody watches her show, but you go to New York and there\u2019s nobody more powerful in the media in literary, it\u2019s not Peter Jennings. I mean, it\u2019s a tight competition. I mean, she may not be the #1 now, but she was. She was it, and she still is. You get an invitation to one of her parties and you don\u2019t go at your own risk. You go. You drop everything. If you\u2019re scheduled to have a baby, you call the doctor and say, “I need a cesarean by Friday so I can go to Tina\u2019s party Saturday.” I mean, it\u2019s that big. Well, that\u2019s the best way I can think to illustrate it. So, anyway, she\u2019s got David Westin on the program, and she says, “David, would you have a reporter\/producer live in any of these communities?” She\u2019s talking about the red states of America here, folks. “Would you have a reporter\/producer live in any of these communities and saturate themselves in these cultures so that they get more stories from those communities?”<\/line>WESTIN: I think we don\u2019t do that enough, and I\u2019m not just talking religious communities. I\u2019m talking all sorts of communities across the country. I think that… You understand this, Tina, living in New York or in Los Angeles, we have busy jobs. We go into the office every day. We tend to socialize with the same people, or the same types of people, and I think it\u2019s terribly important for journalists to get out whether it\u2019s overseas or domestically and try to understand.<\/line> RUSH: We need more foreign correspondents in Alabama! We need more foreign correspondents north of Palm Beach County in Florida! We need embeds to go to church, find out what\u2019s going on with these holy rollers! Ah, folks, you can\u2019t know how much I love this. You just can\u2019t know. Moving on, let\u2019s go. This is Meet the Press with Tim Russert yesterday, their roundtable, and Maureen Dowd — who is literally a shadow of her former self both physically and intellectually; it\u2019s a shame what\u2019s happened to MoDo. She was, at one time, she was pretty funny. She had a caustic, rapier-like whip. She\u2019s just become embittered, just totally embittered, and there are a number of reasons why we won\u2019t go into, but she typifies one of the attitudes that is out there amongst the left. Tim Russert says, actually asks her this question. What does he know? I mean, to ask this question, you\u2019ve got to know the kind of answer you\u2019re going to get. He says to Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, “Do you think the president ran a jihad?”<\/line>DOWD: Uh, yeah. I think that if you look at all the quotes from evangelicals today they\u2019re talking about how we\u2019re “on the eve of destruction” and God gave us a reprieve. You know, we got Satan, you know, away from the White House by defeating Kerry. I mean, it\u2019s very… I think the evangelicals think they\u2019re in a holy war now.<\/line>RUSH: Now, this is all Greek to me. Who\u2019s out there saying that we were on the eve of destruction, that God gave us a reprieve and that Kerry was Satan, who was saying this? I, frankly, didn\u2019t hear this, either, and I think most people would assume that I would be wired to this community, given that I am the spokesman. (broadcast engineer interruption) Oh, oh, I\u2019m sorry. Mr. Maimone tells me it was a guest on the Tina Brown show one night that said this. Oh, do you happen to remember who it was? He doesn\u2019t know who it was. Some guest on Tina Brown said this. Maureen Dowd must have been the person watching that night. All right, so, then Chris Matthews, he\u2019s on the roundtable. He says, “Maureen, we grew up with ‘let\u2019s get this country moving again.\u2019 We all remember George Bush winning the White House by saying, ‘When I put my hand up to take the oath of office I promise to restore the dignity of the office,\u2019 and everybody knew he was talking about Clinton. At least there was a one-liner. Was there ever a one-liner you could point to and say that\u2019s the Kerry campaign?” <\/line>DOWD: No, Kerry was like Gore. He was a winner who somehow managed to lose. He won all three debates and still lost the election, and they\u2019re loners. They were loners in the Senate and they didn\u2019t have that many friends and they were hall monitor personalities. Democrats have to choose people who are cooler, and sexier, really, to be blunt. <\/line>RUSH: If you didn\u2019t hear the double-talk, she said Democrats “have to choose people who are cool and sexy, really, to be blunt,” if they want to win. These hall monitor-types just don\u2019t win the elections. Now, what she didn\u2019t say here but what she said in a column, it was either on Sunday or Friday, I forget which, but she said Karl Rove is the kind of guy that was never a cool guy in the big clique when he was in high school, and he spent the rest of his life (paraphrasing) spent the rest of his life getting even with people who had shut him out. It always goes back to high school with these people, and somebody was or was not “in.” So what they\u2019re telling us here they know they\u2019re the elites. They know that they are the big click in their own mind and they think that those of us who have not been admitted are loaded for bear to take \u2019em out because they are excluding us.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Mike, &lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/www.bethesda.org\/”>Bethesda, Maryland&lt;\/a>, I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, Rush, let me switch hands. My hand is going numb from this cell phone. Okay. Well, mostly I called to express just total affection and admiration for you for all you\u2019ve done and to give you credit, I think a lot of credit, for the win, the victory we just had, not to mention, you know, you said you pulled us through the eight dark years of the Clintons and you kept our — our hopes, you know, going. And, you know, I don\u2019t want to take anything away from Karl Rove, I think he\u2019s brilliant, too, but I think you really did the job. I think you kept the base energized because even though Bush isn\u2019t the most conservative guy in the world you kind of, you know, kept us focused on what\u2019s important here.<\/line>RUSH: You know, Dick Cheney said the same thing to me once about the eight years of Clinton. He said, “It was you,” and I\u2019ve always been embarrassed by this, because I was just doing what… You know, look. You\u2019re very nice to say this, but this whole thing, you have to understand that it\u2019s…it\u2019s… I don\u2019t know how to say this. There is a shift going on in America, and the thing that I have — and I really appreciate your kind words out there, Mike. I really do. Please don\u2019t misunderstand me on this. But my whole theme today, folks, is it\u2019s not any one person. It\u2019s not even the candidate. It\u2019s not Rove. It\u2019s not anything of that nature. It\u2019s not one person. It\u2019s not one group. It\u2019s not talk hosts and it\u2019s not the blogosphere. It\u2019s not any one group, everybody working together. But the overriding reason or theme, folks, if I can attach one to this is that decisiveness and decency and honesty, integrity, and character do still matter in what a lot of people think is a depraved country. <\/line>If I had one consistent point that I kept trying to make throughout this past year — or ten months, if you will — was continue to have faith in the American people, continue to have faith in them to recognize what\u2019s right and what\u2019s wrong and to realize that a campaign based on hate and rage doesn\u2019t inspire and doesn\u2019t motivate and it\u2019s not the foundation that is built to construct a leading, leadership movement. It just doesn\u2019t happen, and a lot of people doubted that because of the daily bombardment we get in pop culture, you think your ideas have vanished. You think that they\u2019ve been pummeled and beaten into senselessness, that the daily barrage of garbage that\u2019s on TV and movies and in music and so forth, you think it now runs and carries the day. You think P. Diddy defines it. He doesn\u2019t. P. Diddy was a nonfactor in this race.<\/line>Michael Moore was a nonfactor except he was a huge factor in getting out the people that he opposed. He was probably more worthwhile to us than he was to his own base. Well, I know he was. The point here is, people talk about “values.” Let\u2019s talk about them for a moment. The time-honored things that we have all been taught growing up and the time-honored things that you who have children have always tried to teach your children work, and they triumph, and they always have. They are timeless, which is why we have values. They give us structure. Values are the guardrails on the curvy, twisty highway of life. They keep us from going off the road. Well, some people have decided they don\u2019t want those. They don\u2019t want the guardrails. They want to be free to go off the road and end up wherever they end up and then when they get there they don\u2019t want to be judged, and anybody that says, “Wait a minute. That\u2019s wrong,” becomes an enemy to them. <\/line>So they rise up. These people, you have to understand, the opponents of the president today and the opponents of you and I and the opponents who are constructing this straw dog of values and morals and gay marriage and all this to explain their loss are simply living their lives in fear, and it is the fear that\u2019s causing them to construct these straw men reasons for their defeat. They\u2019re not going to look at themselves. It\u2019s like &lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/06\/opinion\/06brooks.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fDavid%20Brooks”>David Brookes&lt;\/a> said in the New York Times in his column on Saturday. Liberals will always spin a loss so that when they finish spinning it, they still have the moral superior high ground. And by claiming that gay marriage beat them, they are able to say they are still more enlightened, they are still more advanced, they are still more tolerant than all of you racist, bigots, homophobes and the like — and that\u2019s why they do it. <\/line>Most of liberalism is a concept designed to make its practitioners feel good about themselves. It\u2019s a construct that allows them to reward their good intentions while they ignore the results of their plans and ideas — which are dismal failures. So, I mean, I appreciate the sentiment, and, frankly, I\u2019m well aware of the role I\u2019ve played in many of your lives, but at the same time (laughing). I\u2019m sorry. I had to add a little jocularity there. But point is, I want you to continue to trust the things you were all taught growing up, and I want you to continue to trust your own instincts, and I want you to continue to realize that hate and bilge and lies and scum and cheating, and that\u2019s what Dan Rather did with those memos.<\/line>It was just plain old simple cheating. There was a word for what they tried to do. They cheated. All this focus on the AWOL and the National Guard and the bombs story the last week of the campaign from the New York Times, they\u2019re just cheating. These are people that proclaim their objectivity. They weren\u2019t, they were in the tank. They simply cheated. Doug Brinkley left out a key element from Kerry\u2019s diaries, the whole Kerry campaign. I mean, was spun to attempt to fool everybody, and when are the Democrats going to realize that they are losers with the Clintons at the top of their party? Who ran the Kerry campaign in the last month? It was the Clintons that went over there and did a hostile takeover, ran a coup. Clinton people. There\u2019s so much that you should be able to take from this and rejoice over for the sake of your country, and that\u2019s what I want you to focus on.<\/line>END TRANSCRPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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