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RUSH: Now, moving on to the John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards situation. Remember yesterday, I mentioned to you that so many of my trusted and loyal but cowering-in-fear (at least yesterday) staff, were concerned that I was going to get in all kinds of trouble? My trusted executive producer, Cookie, was sending constant instant messages, ‘Did you have to add that? You know you\u2019re going to get in trouble over this.\u2019 Some friends were sending me e-mails in the course of yesterday\u2019s program, ‘You just don\u2019t know how to stay out of trouble, do you?\u2019 What was all this about? What all this was about was that I said that the Edwards campaign was going to use the press conference yesterday as a means of jump-starting the campaign, which meant what? That I was engaging in a political analysis of the press conference. <\/p>\n

Of course, my trusted and loyal (yet cowering-in-fear) staff thought that nobody else would be looking at it politically. Trusted friends felt the same thing, and Cookie is just generally looking out for my best interests at all times. Yet, ladies and gentlemen, we predicted this. I said, ‘You wait. They\u2019re going to focus on the fact that I said they\u2019re going to jump-start the campaign with this, even though — even though<\/emphasize> — all over the Drive-By Media all afternoon, last night and all night, all we got was political analysis. Howard Fineman yesterday afternoon, said, ‘This was a ten strike. Why, this is incredible. Why, private lives and politics are always public, and that was this means,\u2019 this was so classy, so brilliantly done politically and so forth. I just want you to listen to the audio sound bites this morning on KTUV TV in San Francisco. An unidentified anchor is interviewing CNN\u2019s political expert William Schneider, and they had this exchange about my remarks about the Edwards campaign.<\/p>\n

ANCHOR: You got a person like Rush Limbaugh who says this was a — Senator Edwards is trying to kick start his campaign.<\/p>\n

SCHNEIDER: Well, that\u2019s pure cynicism. You know, there will always be cynics in politics. This was a difficult decision which he reached in collaboration with his wife, and I think she will be an asset.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So they focus on me, which we all knew here. That\u2019s why the trusted staff, cowering in fear in the corner, was worried I would get in trouble. It was the same way with my friends and, of course, the trusted executive producer, Cookie. Well, let\u2019s look at some other comments, shall we? Last night on the NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams was talking with the infobabe reporterette Kelly O\u2019Donnell, and Brian says to her, ‘What about the politics of this? He, after all, is running for president as a Democrat.\u2019<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: Now, of course, as a cancer survivor and a person battling a recurrence, many people will find her a sympathetic figure, and that\u2019s something that certainly helps John Edwards in this way. Senior advisors say that Elizabeth has always sort of made him more human, sort of balanced John Edwards in the public\u2019s eye. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, but how would we analyze that? Here is Kelly O\u2019Donnell, ‘Well, you know, people are going to find her a sympathetic figure. That\u2019s something that certainly helps Edwards in this way.\u2019 In what<\/emphasize> way? You mean it might help the Edwards campaign<\/emphasize>? That Mrs. Edwards is going to be evocative of sympathy among the American people, might help the Edwards campaign<\/emphasize>? Why, Bill Schneider at CNN, would you call that ‘cynical\u2019? Would you say that\u2019s cynicism? Let\u2019s go to the Today Show today. Matt Lauer was talking with Tim Russert, and Lauer said this.<\/p>\n

LAUER: I\u2019m stalling a little bit here, because the question I want to ask you is one that\u2019s going to sound terribly inappropriate, and I\u2019m trying to figure out the right way to say it. Neither John [n]or Elizabeth Edwards asked for this. However, one of the facts that remains this morning is that John Edwards\u2019 picture is on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, and in some ways we have to ask the political question of: ‘What is the impact of this going to be on a campaign that was toiling in third place?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: A-hem<\/emphasize>. Now, how would we interpret that? Matt Lauer is asking trusted bureau chief Tim Russert if there might not be a big political boon — in fact, if there hasn\u2019t already been because Edwards is all over the place today. Did I not say that yesterday? I said, ‘Go take a look, if you know where to go on the Internet, and track the hits that Edwards is getting.\u2019 You see? Edwards is all over the place. At AP, UPI, Reuters, the French News Agency, the number of hits that the Edwards story yesterday was getting was even larger than the number of hits Arnold Schwarzenegger and I got on that little kerfuffle misunderstood by the Drive-By Media. So here these guys are all saying this. This is why I said, ‘I\u2019m on the cutting edge. If you listen to this program, you\u2019ll know what\u2019s relevant before it becomes relevant.\u2019 I know these people, too, like every square inch of my shrinking, but still glorious naked body. I predicted it! They\u2019re all examining this in a political sense but nobody\u2019s calling them <\/emphasize>‘cynics.\u2019 Nobody is referring to them as ‘cynical.\u2019 Okay, you\u2019ve heard Kelly O\u2019Donnell and Matt Lauer. Now let\u2019s listen to William Schneider again talking to an anchor at KTUV-TV San Francisco.<\/p>\n

ANCHOR: You get a person like Rush Limbaugh who says this was a — Senator Edwards is trying to kick start his campaign.<\/p>\n

SCHNEIDER: Well, that\u2019s pure cynicism. You know, there will always be cynics in politics. This was a difficult decision which he reached in collaboration with his wife, and I think she will be an asset.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what this is? I just had the guts <\/emphasize>to say ‘jump-start the campaign.\u2019 Matt Lauer admitting, ‘Ah, it\u2019s a little inappropriate. I don\u2019t want to sound inappropriate but, gosh, Tim, I gotta ask: What\u2019s the impact of this going to be on the campaign?\u2019 He clearly already knows <\/emphasize>what it is. The same thing with Kelly O\u2019Donnell. ‘Many people find Elizabeth Edwards sympathetic figure, something that certainly helps John Edwards in this way.\u2019 What\u2019s ‘this way<\/emphasize>‘? The campaign! So once again, I — a full-frontal, direct spokesman — take the heat as the ‘cynic.\u2019 You want to hear some cynicism? Let\u2019s go to October 11th, 2004, on the campaign trail, and Senator Edwards himself.<\/p>\n

JOHN EDWARDS: If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Mr. Reeve are going to walk! Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Would anybody call that <\/emphasize>cynicism, or just misleading people? Here now is Chris Matthews, and he\u2019s on Hardboiled last night talking to David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register. Matthews said, ‘Is this going to be one further bit of shielding for Edwards against attack by another candidate?\u2019<\/p>\n

YEPSEN: Yes, I think so. I think it really speaks to his biography and his character and I think you\u2019re absolutely right: it adds a little armor plating if somebody wants to go after him. I mean, he certainly has said something about his character here with this.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: I thought it was a shining moment. I thought, I said, ‘God is in heaven. All is right with the world today.\u2019 I thought, those people — who I think are religious but never mentioned it today — acted <\/emphasize>religious. I thought it was great today. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Interesting point. Now, let me say something else that might be accused of cynicism. What is their religion? I don\u2019t doubt they\u2019re ‘religious people,\u2019 but we talked about how political people are different than you and I — and, you know, most people when told a family member\u2019s been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has, they turn to God. The Edwards turned to the campaign. Their religion is politics and the quest for the White House. It\u2019s not just with them. That\u2019s part and parcel of political people. They undergo all this stuff, the media anal exam, their private life being made public even by the candidates themselves. It\u2019s all part of the drill. But here again, Matthews and David Yepsen are making the point that I made yesterday. I said it yesterday, folks: ‘If you are Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, how do you now attack John Edwards?\u2019 It\u2019s not a problem for Hillary. Clinton, Inc. will find a way. But for Barack, it\u2019s going to be a challenge. Maybe he can use some Irish tips<\/a> on this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: One more sound bite here on this John Edwards business. Remember, now, we got Bill Schneider being interviewed on a San Francisco TV station, referring to me as a ‘cynic\u2019 because I said that Edwards kick started the campaign with the public press conference yesterday about his wife\u2019s illness. Last night on PMSNBC, Chris Matthews was interviewing Democrat strategerist Bob Shrum. Matthews says, ‘Look, FDR ran for president as a man who\u2019s a victim of polio — didn\u2019t act like a victim, but he was. Is this something like that where it\u2019s going to be part of the biography, we\u2019re going to know about this and when we think Edwards we\u2019re going to think about Elizabeth and her cancer? Is it going to be part of the picture in our head?\u2019<\/p>\n

SHRUM: Now America\u2019s different, and I believe that today people got more education about cancer and how to deal with cancer, and in one day, than they have very often over a long period of time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, come on!<\/p>\n

SHRUM: Whatever you think of Edwards, whether people vote for him or don\u2019t vote for him, whether they vote for Obama or Hillary, there\u2019s is going to be a tremendous education in breast cancer, in cancer in general and how to deal with it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How absurd. How insulting<\/emphasize>. You see in this one bite, the condescending arrogance. You stiffs out there — even those of you who have experienced cancer in your family — why, you don\u2019t know diddly-squat, and your experiences are worthless in terms of helping others! No, no, no, no, no. What happened yesterday by the Edwards press conference <\/emphasize>did more for the understanding and the education of cancer and how to deal with it than has ever happened before. Of course, prior to that they\u2019re speculating on whether or not it will lead to votes, but nobody would dare call them ‘cynics.\u2019 (interruption) Yeah, well, that\u2019s true, FDR\u2019s polio was hidden from the American people by the press. They didn\u2019t know he was a ‘victim.\u2019 (By the way, are you a victim if you don\u2019t act like a victim? That\u2019s a discussion for another day.)<\/p>\n

I find this just typical. Why, only when Democrats <\/emphasize>get cancer and only when they go public in a press conference do you stiffs — you idiots, you Nimrods — have any idea what life is really <\/emphasize>all about. When it happens to you and the way you deal with it, you don\u2019t teach anybody and you don\u2019t learn anything from it. No, no, no! You have to see a prominent Democrat family get cancer and see how they deal with it, and that\u2019s what really counts in America. That\u2019s what shapes America. This is a quintessential example when I talk about the contemptuous, condescending arrogance <\/emphasize>the Democrats have toward average people. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to play audio sound bite #21. This is Tony Snow this afternoon at the White House.<\/p>\n

SNOW: In recent series of CAT scans and PET scans and MRIs, we have found a small growth in my lower abdomen. The blood tests are negative. The PET scans are negative. But out of an aggressive sense of caution, I\u2019m going to go in for surgery on Monday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tony Snow, who has had colon cancer, is going back in for surgery on Monday. Is this the White House trying to upstage the Edwards? Is this the White House trying to curry sympathy and get the president\u2019s poll numbers back up, by sending Tony Snow out there to announce that he, too, has gotta go in for some kind of surgery because they have found in the PET scan, CAT scans and MRIs, a small growth in his lower abdomen? It\u2019s good news that the blood tests are negative and the PET scans are negative, but he has an aggressive sense of caution. Now, is this going to jump-start the president\u2019s poll numbers? Is the White House just trying to steal the Edwards thunder on this? I mean, folks, we must ask these questions here at the EIB.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is the Early Show. Bob Schieffer of CBS had an interview with the first lady, Laura Bush. He played a little bit of it on the CBS Early Show to promote it. ‘Can I ask you about — because everybody\u2019s talking about this, Mrs. Bush. You had this cancerous growth removed from your shin.\u2019<\/p>\n

LAURA BUSH: Minor skin cancer, you might say.<\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: I take it you\u2019re okay?<\/p>\n

LAURA BUSH: I\u2019m perfect — yes, I\u2019m perfectly all right, thank you very much for asking.<\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: Well, let me — you know, Tony Snow, the press secretary, got a lot of grief from reporters —<\/p>\n

LAURA BUSH: That\u2019s what I heard.<\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: — who wanted to know why you didn\u2019t make that public.<\/p>\n

LAURA BUSH: Actually, it never occurred to me to make it public. It was very minor. Also, of course, I am a private citizen. I mean, I have to say that as well. I don\u2019t release the results of my regular physicals like the president does, of course, and so it just never really occurred to me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s how they treat Republican illness, as a scandal<\/emphasize>! Bob Schieffer and the Drive-Bys thought they had a scandal. ‘Why didn\u2019t you make it public? Why didn\u2019t you tell us about this? What are you trying to hide?\u2019 All the implications that are in there. <\/p>\n

‘You know, I\u2019m a private person. I don\u2019t wear my private life on my public sleeve,\u2019 and so forth. (interruption) I know Elizabeth Edwards did keep her condition quiet in 2004. I\u2019m not talking about the Edwards here. I\u2019m talking about the Drive-Bys. Don\u2019t anybody mistake this. I\u2019m pointing at people watching on the Dittocam. I\u2019m not talking about the Edwardses here. I\u2019m talking about the Drive-Bys. Republican illnesses are scandals<\/emphasize>.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, that Laura Bush sound bite and the Bob Shrum sound bite that we played just makes some things crystal clear — plus the Tony Snow situation today. Like, I\u2019m wondering if Howard Fineman will analyze Tony Snow\u2019s press conference and tell us how it scored politically. See, if you don\u2019t go public with your illnesses you\u2019re not qualified to even talk about them. You\u2019re not any good. You have to make it public! Now, when Clinton refused to release his <\/emphasize>medical records for eight years, why, that was private — and rightly so, of course. Whatever the libs do in the media is the right thing, for which they deserve credit. Go public? ‘Great! It\u2019s educational!\u2019 Stay private? ‘That\u2019s his right!\u2019 The FDR cover-up, well, the public wasn\u2019t ready for that. Clinton doesn\u2019t release his medical records, that\u2019s his right. Edwards goes public and continues running for president, why, he\u2019s educating us about cancer! As far as the Drive-Bys are concerned, Democrats can do no wrong — and nothing\u2019s going to change that, folks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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