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RUSH: ‘Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has dropped the use of her maiden name ‘Rodham\u2019 in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton identifies herself as ‘Hillary Clinton\u2019 in her campaign press releases and on her campaign website. The lone mention of her maiden name is in a campaign biography that says ‘Hillary\u2019s father, Hugh Rodham, was the son of a factory worker from Scranton.\u2019 She continues to use ‘Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019 in her New York-focused press releases and in the Senate. Clinton appeared surprised last week when asked why her presidential campaign had dropped her maiden name. Clinton laughed,\u2019 you know, the laugh of the Arkansas broadbeam — Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.\u2019–shook her head and replied: ‘I haven\u2019t, I haven\u2019t,\u2019 before dashing off. Howard Wolfson, a top communications adviser to Clinton, downplayed any significance to the change. Asked if it was a strategic decision to drop ‘Rodham,\u2019 Wolfson replied: ‘That\u2019s a fair question, but there\u2019s no plan behind it.” I will just guarantee you that it\u2019s polling. There are no coincidences, folks. And especially, there are no coincidences with the Clintons. There\u2019s so many things that look like coincidence, but there\u2019s no coincidence. <\/p>\n

Now, how about Carl Bernstein\u2019s book. From the Times Online<\/a> in UK: ‘Drawing on a trove of private papers from Hillary Clinton\u2019s best friend, the legendary Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein is going to publish a hard-hitting and intimate portrait of the 2008 presidential candidate, which will reveal a number of ‘discrepancies\u2019 in her official story. Bernstein has spent eight years researching the unauthorized 640-page biography, ‘A Woman in Charge, The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.” Well, now, isn\u2019t this convenient timing, that the book happens to come out now, and not in the midst of the actual campaign, but now. What I am warning you people of is to not being fooled by this. For example, how is it that Carl Bernstein gets these secret files? Carl Bernstein, who can\u2019t get anything published these days, how does he end up with them? If you read excerpts, yes, you\u2019ll find out that she\u2019s told some whoppers and she\u2019s told some lies and maybe some of her histoire doesn\u2019t match with what she has said, but his conclusion is, ‘So what? It\u2019s not that big a deal.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to tell you what. I think this is a total put-up job. I think Bernstein was given this job by Clinton, Inc., to get the skeletons out of the closet for everybody to see. I mean how did he get the private papers nobody else has been able to get? How did that happen? So Bernstein goes about the task of in the same book accusing her of lying about almost everything and then exonerating her in the book, by the way. This is the ploy that Hillary has used for decades. She wants to get rid of all of her skeletons so that she has to address them and be done with it, and again, well, what better time to do that now than in the primaries? What better way to address any accusations than to say, ‘Look, we\u2019ve been there and done that with Carl Bernstein\u2019s book.\u2019 These things, if they surface again after she gets the nomination, ‘Oh, here goes the Republican attack machine, just recycling a bunch of old news. This was in Carl Bernstein\u2019s book a year ago. Can\u2019t we move on? Can\u2019t we stop the politics of personal destruction? Can\u2019t we just move on?\u2019 The thing about Mrs. Clinton is that everything is a lie. Well, ‘lie.\u2019 Nothing is as it seems, let\u2019s just put it that way. Nothing is as it seems with the Clintons, and I think this book is probably part of that reality. <\/p>\n

For example, here\u2019s a story by Anne Kornblut in the Washington Post<\/a> today: ‘Clinton\u2019s PowerPointer.\u2019 This is all about Mark Penn, who is the pollster, and here\u2019s the pull quote from this story. ‘Armed with voluminous data that he collects through his private polling firm, Penn has become involved in virtually every move Clinton makes, with the result that the campaign reflects the chief strategist as much as the candidate.\u2019 Well, now, isn\u2019t that great. So if you are basically devoid of substance, by that I mean you\u2019re not going to pin yourself down on anything because you\u2019re going to wait for what the polls say, then doesn\u2019t it make perfect sense that a pollster would be your primary architect of your message? If you are going to make yourself devoid of substance and ideas, then anybody can come along and fill you up. So a Mrs. Bill presidency promises a return to be run by polling, just like Clintons — I mean he would poll what to wear on vacation. He\u2019d poll where to go on vacation. <\/p>\n

People who are elected do more than follow the whims of public opinion, at least they were. But, you know, given that we\u2019re in the age of terrorism now, we all know what happened, because Bill decided it wasn\u2019t politically advantageous to confront the terrorist threat. Didn\u2019t want those poll numbers going down, didn\u2019t want to take on any real tough issues because he didn\u2019t want to risk that 65% approval rating. Now, over the years, uh, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, I\u2019ve been a very loud critic of polling, and what my basic beef has been is that the Drive-Bys used polling basically for two reasons. A, they\u2019re lazy. But B, they go out do polling to create news. Every poll is presented as a news story. But I think polling also is a way to get what would be on the editorial page of a newspaper onto the front page. A poll, done by the Drive-By Media, is the best way to advance an agenda and make it look like it\u2019s just a news story. If you\u2019re the Drive-Bys and Democrats and you have an agenda, you come out with a poll that show the majority of Americans happen to agree with your agenda, well, bam, good for you. <\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s worse now than just a bunch of lazy journalists and just driving an agenda. Everybody thinks George Bush today is stupid. I mean, if you have a poll out there that says a majority of the American people wonder about Bush\u2019s intelligence, well, then by gosh, he is. And the Drive-Bys can hide behind that, and the Democrats can hide behind it. It justifies them to behave like Harry Reid does. ‘Bush is an idiot, why, he is absolutely stupid. Why, the American people think so, we got a poll that says so.\u2019 Harry Reid looks at the poll, ‘Well, Bush is an idiot, I\u2019m safe, I can go say so myself.\u2019 Everybody thinks we\u2019re going to die next week from global warming, it must be true if polling data, there was a story in the New York Times last week, public shifting now, majority convinced global warming is a problem, but not sure what to do. Okay, well, it\u2019s over, the issue is over, the American people agree that global warming is going to kill us tomorrow. If not tomorrow, next year, if not then, the next decade, and if not then, certainly by the end of the century. But if the American people agree, well, that\u2019s it, there\u2019s no more story. Must be true. <\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t believe that when you\u2019re confronted daily with one poll after another, you can eventually be swayed to think it if you don\u2019t think that global warming is a problem or that Mrs. Clinton is the greatest thing since sliced bread. After repeated polls and polls and polls of the American people, you\u2019re told in a poll the American people think X, why, must be true. ‘I\u2019m not that smart,\u2019 you say to yourself. Most people think everybody else is smarter than they are. ‘Well, I must be missing something, those people are right, it must be true.\u2019 So, we got global warming, we have to act, the American people say so, it must be true. Very sly, ladies and gentlemen, sort of like smoke. You don\u2019t realize you\u2019re overcome until it\u2019s too late. Sort of like being put in a vat of cold water and they turn up the heat, starts boiling, by the time you\u2019re cooked, it\u2019s too late to get out of there. You know the old story with the frog. But it\u2019s a trick now, and it\u2019s not just for the creation of news and driving an agenda, it is to provide almost an authoritative conclusion to the question of any issue. Global warming? Well, the American people say so. Must be true. Bush stupid? American people say so, must be true. President Clinton, 65% approval rating and most popular president? Must be true, people say so. Going to get out of Iraq now, it\u2019s a lost cause. Must be true, American people say so. That\u2019s how these polls are being used, and that is exactly what Mark Penn is doing for Mrs. Bill Clinton. She\u2019s out there, she\u2019s like an empty fuel tank and he\u2019s putting the fuel in there. Whatever the public says is what she\u2019s going to be. The American people say so, I must be right, I must be the presidential candidate of your choice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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