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RUSH: Here we go with Barack Obama. As you know, he was up in New Hampshire — do you know, by the way, TV ads<\/a> for Barack Obama are going to start airing this weekend? Presidential ads for Barack Obama in New Hampshire start airing this weekend. Hillary, I think, is starting to get panicked because she\u2019s called up all of Bubba\u2019s old buddies, Carville and Begala and Joe Lockhart, she had them over to dinner to discuss what to do about this. Her team wasn\u2019t there. They\u2019re all one team, of course, but publicly Carville and Begala have said, (paraphrasing) “Well, we\u2019ll help, but we\u2019re not officially on the team.” That allows them to have more movement and latitude under the radar. Anyway, Obama up in New Hampshire being treated like a god making a speech. Now, apparently before he made the speech, Maureen Dowd had written something about his big ears. Obama, after the speech, made a beeline for Maureen Dowd who was in the audience to tell her that he didn\u2019t appreciate her writing about his big ears. Now, there\u2019s a lot of noise here and it\u2019s very muddy. I\u2019ll translate it for you, but here\u2019s how it sounded. <\/line>OBAMA (off mic): You talked about my ears, and I just want to put you on notice: I\u2019m very sensitive about — What I told them was, ”I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.'” <\/line>DOWD (purring): We\u2019re trying to toughen you up<\/line>RUSH: “We\u2019re just trying to toughen you up.” Here is what Barack Obama said.”You talked about my ears, and I just want to put you on notice: I\u2019m very sensitive about — What at I told them was, ‘I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.'” Now, there are many aspects of this, folks, that we need to delve into and explore. For one thing, I mean you know me, if the guy\u2019s sensitive about his big ears, we need to give him a new name, like Dumbo. But that doesn\u2019t quite get it. How about Barack Obama Hussein Odumbo. Well, if he\u2019s sensitive — stop to think about this. This is a man being lauded as the savior of the country, a presidential candidate ready to be anointed, and he can\u2019t handle being teased about his big ears? He goes out to Maureen Dowd and says, I am putting you on notice? Is that a threat? I want to put you on notice? <\/line>Can you imagine, like I said yesterday<\/a>, let\u2019s say something about me — I\u2019m very sensitive about whatever it is, X, and the papers write about it and make fun of it. Can you imagine if I sought out Maureen Dowd or anybody and said, “You know, I\u2019m going to put you on notice. I\u2019ve been teased about that ever since I was a kid, and I don\u2019t like it.” That would be the whole column the next day about how thin-skinned I am, how I can\u2019t take it, this and that, and I am a complainer and a whiner and I was trying to influence objective journalists and so forth. But instead, Mo Do says, “We\u2019re just trying to toughen you up.” But this is revealing at a lot of levels. It is an overt threat to go out and say, “I\u2019m putting you on notice.” I wonder what would happen if McCain did that. McCain, “You don\u2019t say that about me! I\u2019m putting you on notice, you hear, sister, you hear?”<\/line><\/p>\n

Can you imagine what the reaction would be if any Republican went up or any conservative went up to a member of the media and said, “I\u2019m putting you on notice right now.” How bullied can the Drive-By Media be by this candidates? Of course, Hillary has her testicle lockbox, and it works. She gets kid-glove treatment, softball questions wherever she goes. We\u2019ve already attributed this to the testicle lockbox that she has. But here\u2019s the next thing, and this is something that everybody seems to be deaf about. He seems fragile. This guy actually seems fragile. He is expecting not to be teased about — what are the editorial cartoonists going to do with this now? (interruption) Oh some of them will, Mr. Snerdley, some of them will. You know, you were wrong yesterday, and you\u2019re going to be wrong today. I bet you yesterday that this Tehran “Holocaust didn\u2019t happen” convention would blossom and leave Iran — and it has — people seriously debating this now in little oddball corners of the world. <\/line>I\u2019ve already seen editorial cartoons, maybe on conservative websites that are parodying — that\u2019s what editorial cartoonists do, they exaggerate the slightest physical characteristic. But, at any rate, how fragile can he be? He has been given uncritical — not only uncritical, but fawning positive press coverage for a couple of years now, then one liberal columnist quips about his ears, his ears<\/emphasize>, and he\u2019s fretting about it, and he can\u2019t wait to go put her on notice and tell her he doesn\u2019t like it because he\u2019s been made fun of about it ever since he was a kid. If he\u2019s so sensitive about his ears, imagine how his tent will fold when he gets deep into a campaign. Wait \u2019til Hillary pulls out the testicle lockbox for him in the middle of a campaign, wait \u2019til Hillary Clinton really gets down and dirty and the guns start blazing, what\u2019s this guy going to do? We may have discovered an Achilles\u2019 heel. He\u2019s not tough enough for this. <\/line> I mean, really, I\u2019m not overestimating this, nor am I exaggerating this. I mean, to go out there and say, “I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears, I\u2019m very sensitive about it.” “We\u2019re just trying to toughen you up.” That alone means that they know he needs toughening up and that they\u2019re going to try to help him along with it. There\u2019s a lot to learn in this one little episode. And nobody but us, nobody but me is playing this audio for the very reasons that you and I have discussed. Plus it\u2019s tough to hear because it\u2019s so muddled. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>During the break Snerdley continued to argue with me that editorial cartoonists nor anybody else will make fun of Obama over his long-held sensitivity since childhood over his Dumbo-type ears, his elephant ears. Snerdley says, “You don\u2019t understand how this is going to play out. His whole method here is to portray himself as just an average guy, and when he goes out there and actually admits that he\u2019s sensitive and he was made fun of as a child, well, everybody can relate to that.” Yes, but that\u2019s not how you deal with crisis. You don\u2019t deal with adversity by basically, (crying) “You hurt my feelings! Stop it.” You know, you can be Oprah Winfrey and you can be a star on the Oprah show, but you cannot be elected president with that kind of behavior. <\/line>Barack Hussein Odumbo, by the way, did not go public with this ear sensitivity thing. He sought MoDo out in the audience, and nobody aired that. Well, I guess it was on C-SPAN, but nobody\u2019s picked it up from C-SPAN except, of course, I. He didn\u2019t know the microphone was still on when this happened. He thought he was in a private moment with her. So he hasn\u2019t gone out there and tried to build this bridge, this bond of relatability with average schlubs. Do you think that\u2019s going to play well at union headquarters? I mean, how many of those guys out there are worrying about things they were made fun of? They just smash people that made fun of them. They just get rid of them. Jimmy Hoffa, concrete, Giants Stadium, six feet under. (interruption) Every woman with a child what? Will relate to it? Oh, well, fine, then we stop women from voting in \u201906 or \u201908. Don\u2019t be silly in there. <\/line><\/p>\n

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