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RUSH: Big Democrat debate tonight. It\u2019s being called the CNN YouTube debate tonight, and everybody is wondering, because Obama is going to have to do something, since Hillary\u2019s not faltering at all. Her flip-flop positions on the war are not hurting her at all. Obama\u2019s raising — how about this money? Democrats lead by $100 million in the money race in terms of donations. Where are all the stories in the Drive-By Media about fat cat liberals and fat cat Democrats? Have you noticed, by the way, that since the Democrats are leading in the money race, why, there\u2019s nothing wrong with the campaign finance system. Oh, no, it\u2019s perfect. It\u2019s working exactly as planned now, but when the Republicans lead in fundraising, ‘Well, we need campaign finance reform. It\u2019s not right. It\u2019s not fair. There are more Democrats than Republicans. We ought to be leading.\u2019 Now they are, and there\u2019s nothing wrong. Everything is just fine. <\/p>\n

At any rate, Obama\u2019s going to have to do something. This is being touted here as the first real debate. People are wondering, ‘Are the gloves going to come off during the debate tonight?\u2019 It\u2019s in Charleston, South Carolina. There was a little bit of a dust-up on CNN yesterday, Wolf Blitzer\u2019s show, and if that\u2019s any indication, then the gloves may in fact come off tonight. And, of course, since this is the first YouTube debate, where the Internet is going to be involved, we have the obligatory story about those who are now left out of campaigning. Yes, ‘Millions of Americans who can\u2019t afford computers, let alone Internet access, are being left out of the 2008 presidential campaign. <\/line>Monday night\u2019s Democratic candidates\u2019 debate in Charleston, S.C., is a perfect example of the digital divide that leaves poor Americans unable to take part in the process, The Washington Post reported Monday. Co-sponsored by the Website YouTube, questions for the debate have to be sent via the Internet in video form.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got some of these questions that these people have sent in, and if they use any of them, it\u2019s going to be hilarious. The people at CNN have been looking at some of these questions coming from YouTube, and you know what\u2019s striking? Hardly any questions about Iraq. Nobody can believe that. Why, this is the people. YouTube is the people. Where are the questions about Iraq? There are very few of these that have been posed so far, and it backs up what I\u2019ve told you, that this is something that has been way overblown in terms of the attitudes and the opinions of the American people. Now, about this Internet divide. This is another one of these obligatory stories, the haves and have-nots. We\u2019ve got a new innovation, and yet some Americans can\u2019t participate. All they gotta do is turn on the television. They don\u2019t have to have a computer to follow a campaign, the absurdity of that assertion. But whose fault is it that they don\u2019t have computers? Whose fault is it they can\u2019t afford computers? Obviously it\u2019s our fault, those of us who do have computers. It\u2019s not fair. <\/p>\n

And get this. You know what the Gore tax is? Remember the Gore tax, folks? It\u2019s on every phone bill in this country. It\u2019s a ten-year-old telephone tax, and actually it\u2019s older than that. The Gore tax was just a revision of the original tax. The original tax on everybody\u2019s phone number, you can\u2019t even find it. It\u2019s there, but forget the poor, the intelligent can\u2019t decipher a phone number. Just look for the amount due and pay it. You go nuts looking at all the taxes and trying to figure out what tax is what, but it\u2019s there. This tax, from the early days of the invention of the phone, was intended to bring phone service to rural Americans. Long ago that was accomplished. There\u2019s no need for that tax anymore for that purpose. Then ten years ago, they updated this tax to help bring affordable service to rural areas, it turned into something quite different, a bottomless and politically protected well of cash for cell phone companies that do big business in rural America. Over the past four years, there\u2019s been nearly a tenfold increase in government subsidies paid to a handful of so-called competitive providers, cell phone companies paid by the fund to offer service in rural areas wherein existing carrier already receives a subsidy. The universal service fund is what this is called. It\u2019s collected $44 billion over its ten-year lifetime from a surcharge on the phone bills of nearly every American. In 2006 the fund collected $6.6 billion, money that flows to four programs, 1.7 billion paid for skrools and libraries to connect to the Internet. Two smaller funds subsidize phone service for the poor and rural health care facilities. The largest chunk, 4.1 billion last year flows to the aptly named High Cost program, the source of the current controversy. That money is paid directly to phone companies that do business in mostly rural areas where the cost of delivering service is high. Phone service, cell phone service can mean Internet accessibility in rural areas. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, we\u2019ve got a new concern here. We got a bottomless pit tax that should be getting everybody phone service and Internet connectability. We\u2019ve had all kinds of programs to give computers to people in the schools and so forth, and yet, ladies and gentlemen, on the eve, on the day of the first real Democrat debate, we need to cry, we need handkerchiefs because the poor, as always, are being left out, when in fact they\u2019re not, because everybody in this country has a television, left out by Democrats in fact because it is the Democrats are the ones who have made the promises to rectify all of these situations. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: The format is set here by Kit Seelye in the New York Times to ‘bring new voices into the process.\u2019 What new voices? Just because some people now send in their questions on YouTube rather than e-mail them? What new voices? There aren\u2019t any new people out there. Same population, just using different ways to communicate. Here are some of these voices, and what great voices they are. ‘One young man shows a clip of President Dwight D. Eisenhower warning about the influence of the military industrial complex and then asks the candidates if that is still a relevant concern. ‘If so,\u2019 he asks, ‘how would you help to protect America from its undue influence?\u2019 Another asks the candidates if they would put their friends in important government jobs. ‘Or are you going to hire the best and the brightest?\u2019 he asks. ‘Or are you prepared to tell us that your friends are the best and the brightest?\u2019 A black man standing in front of a check-cashing store asks the candidates how they would stop predatory lending in low-income neighborhoods. A college student wants to know if the candidates would lower the legal drinking age to 18 from 21. Another video-maker asks: ‘If you had to choose a current Republican presidential candidate as your running mate, who would you choose, and why?”<\/p>\n

So these are the new voices. These are the wonderful new voices, and we are so excited and happy about it. Of course we\u2019re also sad because some of the new voices will never be heard, because they can\u2019t afford Internet service, nor will they ever be able to afford a computer. ‘It\u2019s just not right, Mr. Limbaugh. It\u2019s an unequal distribution of resources in this country. It\u2019s not fair.\u2019 Okay. No questions on the issues, and the guy that\u2019s screening these videos is David Bohrman. He\u2019s the Washington bureau chief for CNN. He\u2019s ‘been sitting in a production bus in South Carolina for several days scanning the submissions and helping pick which ones to broadcast. … Mr. Bohrman said he had been surprised by how few questions there were about Iraq, how broad the age range was of the questioners and how many of the videos showed a person just talking into the camera.\u2019<\/p>\n

You know, I think what can be said here so that the Drive-Bys who easily get caught up in their own perception of fads, apparently have this belief that YouTube consists of people who are a cut above and are engaging in this process, and they\u2019ve got this notion simply because it\u2019s talked about, they\u2019re products of buzz. YouTube is just people, average people from all walks of life who have basically one desire, and that\u2019s to be known. It\u2019s an amazing thing that\u2019s happening to our culture. Everybody wants fame. Everybody wants some attention, and they\u2019re willing to give up all kinds of privacy in order to get it. So, the vast majority of the questions from YouTube are going to be just what they would be if average people walked into this debate with little screening or anything else, which is why these public questions are always screened. It\u2019s why CNN is screening these YouTube submissions even now. But the idea that this represents some new revolution, I mean, it\u2019s a new media revolution in terms of how people communicate with each other, but it\u2019s not new in terms of who the people are. The idea that it represents some sort of unique, brand-new, never before in existence type of person involved in the political process is absurd. It\u2019s the same people that have always either been involved or not been involved with the same irrelevant, stupid, or bright questions, depending on the person. There\u2019s nothing new about it other than the method of transferal.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, there\u2019s a former TV critic out there. I think this guy used to write for USA Today. His name is Jeff Jarvis and he\u2019s got a website named BuzzMachine.com and he\u2019s not happy with the way CNN is handles these YouTube videos. He\u2019s among many who have criticized CNN for retaining control over which videos are shown, as opposed to showing the ones that viewers watch the most or rate as the best. Now, two thoughts about that. Number one: it would be tempting — if I ran CNN, I would certainly let the public choose which ones to use. If I ran CNN and did this show, what I would suggest is this. I would suggest, as the president of CNN, ‘Absolutely right! We\u2019re going to let the audience vote on their favorite YouTube questions for these candidates in the debate tonight, and then we\u2019re going to air those,\u2019 and then I would come on this show, and I would tell everybody, ‘Pick the most ridiculous, stupid, out of the world questions you can.\u2019 That\u2019s why CNN cannot lose control over this. Above all else, this is a show. CNN is in this for ratings. They\u2019re not going to turn over the all-important questions to these candidates to a bunch of dingbats who don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. The idea is that it should be voted on by the public in this kind of forum.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tempting. It would be laughable. It would be funny to see how the candidates deal with this. As a broadcasting proposition, it would be silly. Jarvis says, ‘It\u2019s our democracy, not yours, CNN. There is need for order but not control. I know some of these questions might be real turkeys but it would also show that people really care and that democracy is in good hands.\u2019 It might not accomplish that. It might scare people, what is out there. Now, the LA Times has a piece on this CNN YouTube debate, too, and here\u2019s a submission from a guy in Las Vegas speaking to the camera on a homemade video on YouTube. ‘Has your husband, Bill Clinton, engaged in adulterous behavior since he left office?\u2019 That question will not air. Do you think the public would elect and vote that question near the top for the debate tonight? They probably would. It\u2019s a real crapshoot here for this kind of thing. But the bottom line is, you know what this really is? This is just the Democrats and their accomplices in the media salivating over what they think is the newest route to getting the youth vote. They have had all these massive voter registration drives in the past three or four elections, Rock the Vote on MTV, all of these things, and they have been so filled with promise, such excitement, that young people, the youth of America would leave wherever they were — watching MTV, whatever — and drag themselves on down to the polling place and vote for Democrats and it\u2019s just hasn\u2019t happened because the youthful people just don\u2019t show up in as great numbers as older demographics. The YouTube business is nothing more than the latest attempt by the Democrats and the media to extend the youth vote to the Democrat Party. Think of this as the 2007 version of Rock the Vote. Are we seeing Rock the Vote on MTV right now? I haven\u2019t turned MTV on for a while but it obviously didn\u2019t work. So probably the same bunch that was behind the Rock the Vote somehow is involved in this whole YouTube business. Columbus, Ohio, and John, we\u2019ll start on the phones with you today, sir. It\u2019s great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Never better, sir. Never better.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was just calling in because of your comments about this being the same group of people that would otherwise participate is exactly right because the control is still the same, and that was really what strikes me as this is just another, as you said, attempt to recycle or just sort of a new — the greatest thing since sliced bread to get Democratic voters. I just like the idea. I like the idea of having a vote on who you\u2019re going to put to the questioners or what questioners you\u2019re going to but to the candidates. I\u2019d like to see that actually done. Maybe on the GOP side; they can really make you work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it might, but (sigh) saying it\u2019s a crapshoot is the wrong way to go about this. It\u2019s not the way to characterize. See, I can\u2019t separate myself as a broadcast from these debates, and I know that these are first and foremost television shows that are going to be used to promote the network carrying the debate, which is CNN — and the one thing that no broadcaster — well, except for PBS and liberal talk radio — that no responsible broadcaster wants to do is bore the audience. You cannot turn over… Well, you can\u2019t. You cannot turn over a broadcast of eminent high quality to rank amateurs! You just can\u2019t do it, especially when there\u2019s nothing that\u2019s supposed to be entertaining about this. This is supposed to be very, very serious. We\u2019re talking about the future of America, how we gonna get out of Iraq, how the Democrats going to save this great economy and wreck it so that people will be happy again. All these great questions. You can\u2019t turn that over as a broadcaster to rank amateurs. It\u2019s just not done. As I say, there are other places it is done. In fact they take pride in boring people because that\u2019s thought to be high quality. intellectual broadcasting. Award-winning in fact! People that do all these boring documentaries and win all these awards that nobody ever sees, and so a responsible broadcaster, CNN\u2019s got, whether they know how to do it or not, they still have the desire to have a lot of viewers, and you don\u2019t do that by boring the audience with a bunch of rank amateurs. They have to have control over this. I don\u2019t think it means anything negative for democracy just because you let the people into a debate or take questions from the audience or from e-mails or now from YouTube. There\u2019s nothing new about any of this. It\u2019s an image. It\u2019s an attempt to put forth the idea that we\u2019re bringing democracy to ‘the masses,\u2019 and we\u2019re bringing the masses to democracy, the masses to the candidates, and the candidates are going to be confronted with questions from real people. It\u2019s not that at all. There\u2019s really nothing new about this. Pittsburgh and Joshua, thank you for calling, sir. You are on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I am the faculty advisor at a local university\u2019s college Republican group, and at least one of those videos, one of the ones selected by TIME.com as one of their top ten questions, was produced by one of our college Republican presidents. The one with the three girls standing in ostrich suits asking them not to bury their heads in the sand, that was produced by our College Republicans doing their summer internship.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, congratulations. That\u2019s great.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We really are not letting it just become the Democrats running this show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, is your question going to be used?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I haven\u2019t the foggiest idea.<\/p>\n

RUSH: you haven\u2019t the foggiest idea. See, that\u2019s the thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re not going to release that to us. They probably won\u2019t tell us about it at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, of course not. What they will do, is they will mix in some questions. They\u2019ll get a highly produced one like that for the employment value, and a couple of times they won\u2019t mind-blowing curve balls at the candidates, and in order to satisfy the masses, they\u2019ll have a couple of dumb questions as well to make sure they\u2019re spreading it around so the dumb are represented, the uneducated are represented, the ignorant are represented, the comedic, like yours, the thoughtful. This is how liberals do things. Everybody will be represented. So you have a shot.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m hoping that we actually get there because it is an issue-oriented question, and it\u2019s one of their talking points. Social Security reform is what they all want to talk about. I\u2019m hoping that this comes off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is the question? You said something about ostriches and heads in the sand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is the question in your video?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The question is what will they do to save Social Security — reform Social Security — and save our futures? That\u2019s how the students in the video phrased it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Now, let\u2019s assume that that question is used for the sake of discussion. You\u2019re a bright man. What do you think the average Democrat candidate would say if posed that question?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think they\u2019ll go back to their standard talking points that the Social Security system is a promise that needs to be maintained. We\u2019re not going to hear anything new out of the candidates, raising the taxes, raise —<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re not going to answer the question in the context of reform at all. All they\u2019re going to do is take the opportunity, the occasion of that question to pledge their support for it and to make sure that every elderly person watching knows that they\u2019re never going to lose it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They will not deal with the question. That\u2019s why these things here tonight are pointless. Any debate is sort of a pointless exercise, because these Democrats do not have different yesterdays among them about anything. They all have the same ideas. They all want universal health care. They all want paid-for abortions by everybody else. They all want out of Iraq. There\u2019s not one dime\u2019s worth of difference in any of these Democrats in their positions. Well, maybe Gravel, but doesn\u2019t have a clue, nor does he have a chance, but there\u2019s not a dime\u2019s worth of difference. So this is nothing more than a popularity contest. The inevitability question is always going to fall on Hillary. That\u2019s why Obama is going to have to do something tonight. Regardless the questions that are asked and where they come from, Obama is going to have to do something tonight to get off the dime, because it\u2019s getting close now. This is ‘the first real debate.\u2019 I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re calling it that, since there have been others. Anyway, I appreciate the call, Joshua. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: CNN has been promoting the debate tonight all week, and they\u2019ve been playing some of the questions that they\u2019ve been getting via YouTube submissions, and last Monday is when they first aired the video question about Mrs. Clinton\u2019s problem with her husband\u2019s infidelity. Here\u2019s that question. It\u2019s ‘Gavin from Las Vegas.\u2019<\/p>\n

GAVIN: Senator Clinton, I think you would make a great president, but there\u2019s a question that deserves to be answered before the end of the primaries because it could affect your ability to run against a strong Republican. Has your husband, Bill Clinton, engaged in adulterous behavior since he\u2019s left office? How do you plan to address the issue, whether real or trumped up, by people that would demean your character by trying to imply that your marriage is politically convenient?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s a perfectly good question. It\u2019s a perfectly reasonable question. It\u2019s something everybody wonders: Is Clinton still horn-dogging it out there? Everybody wonders this. Now, do you think they\u2019ll use this question at CNN? Well, I wouldn\u2019t go so far as to say that. Apparently… The odds are they wouldn\u2019t use it, but you know that the Clinton campaign has got to have an answer. They know they\u2019re going to get this question somewhere down the line, maybe not about, ‘Is your husband still cheating on you?\u2019 but what about his past infidelities? Is it going to be a problem in your camp? You know they\u2019ve got an answer for this. You know Clinton, Inc., and the war room has an answer for it. It\u2019s going to come up. At some point, this will come up in this campaign. It may not be in the primaries; it will be in the general. She\u2019s going to be the nominee. It\u2019s going to come up. Somewhere in the general campaign, it is going to come up. They\u2019ve got an answer for it. That\u2019s the point. They\u2019ve got an answer for this whether it comes up or not. It\u2019s something CNN has to think about is if they do use it… I know the Drive-Bys, and they covet access to these people, and if they use this question, will the Clinton campaign immediately put out a press release, ‘This is a problem here. We cannot possibly allow access to CNN as the most unconscionable breach of privacy,\u2019 you know, blame it on Fox or something? They won\u2019t go on Fox because Fox is too whatever. They won\u2019t do it. They won\u2019t use the question. But it\u2019s a question on everybody\u2019s mind, and if they had put this up to vote and the audience got to rate these videos and the top-rated videos were the ones that were used, you damn well know that that would be at the top of the list. You know it. Here\u2019s Zack in Lancaster, Ohio. You\u2019re on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey. I\u2019m kind of nervous. This is big for me to get a chance to actually speak to you. <\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t sound nervous at all, Zack.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No? Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And if you were a female, I\u2019d say don\u2019t worry about it because this call is going to be like a mink glove on your back but since I don\u2019t go that way, I won\u2019t say that to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks. Last year in high school, eleventh grade, we had a classroom mock election. The teachers split the classroom into two sides, Republicans and Democrats. Of course me being a Rush baby, I\u2019m a Republican.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So we had a chance to come up with what our platform would be. Of course, I\u2019m staunch conservative first, conservative Republican. So we came up with our platform. Now, I was running against a female. So we came up with our speech. I prepped for the debate. The teacher brought the other class over to watch the debate and the speech we gave, plus we made an ad, and the results were not as what we were expecting. In the debate, the Democrats and Republicans both, both the whole class thought it was over, I was going to win right there after the debate, and after the speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You\u2019re leaving some things out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is high school, right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re 18?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Democrats and Republicans both, the whole class thought it was over, you were going to win right there after the debate. They thought your speech was great?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. And both sides. I remember walking out of the classroom, them coming up to me, the Democrats, saying, ‘This is over. There\u2019s no way we\u2019re going to win after the debate and speech.\u2019 Well, the results came back. In the classroom that came over to vote for us, the ratio between male and female were one to two, and I lost by six votes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. It was two to one female to male in the class that came to watch?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that class voted?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s the class that voted.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you lost by six votes. So the female vote beat you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s what I believe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What you\u2019re saying is the women hung together against you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you\u2019re calling to tell me I may be wrong in my statement here that women will not vote for women just because she\u2019s a woman?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. I\u2019m saying that the generations coming up. These people that voted are two years away from being part of the electorate, and they may be part of that feminist movement, many more of them this time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but that does happen. You know, young women in high school and college are subjected to these feminazi professorettes and so forth, even some feminazi professors, and they do come out of school with their minds sort of poisoned against men. They do, especially in some of the higher rated institutions of higher learning in this country. But if you take a look at real life in other circumstances, most women don\u2019t dislike men. In fact, you know, this idea that women are going to hang together simply because it\u2019s a woman is dispelled in every day life.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cattiness, jealousy, all of these things rise up, but the whole premise here is, even though you got skunked, you think, by women hanging together —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah?<\/p>\n

RUSH: — Zack, I don\u2019t know what you look like, but as far as they were concerned it could have been nothing to do with what you said. It could have been the way you look.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, see, I\u2019m not a vain guy, but I don\u2019t think I look terribly bad to where I turned them off to where they wouldn\u2019t want to vote for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You never know. You just never know, Zack. That\u2019s why don\u2019t take it personally as the reason.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You just never know about these things, you know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The teacher told me he thought it was like my speech. He said that I was being a bit too conservative and I didn\u2019t move to the middle. I wasn\u2019t being a moderate. I was being a conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, that possible. But I think in being conservative, you were probably very confident.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you were very sure of your positions.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that threatens a lot of people, not just women. It threatens everybody. ‘Nobody\u2019s supposed to be that sure! But aren\u2019t there two sides? Isn\u2019t he partly right? Can\u2019t he be wrong?\u2019 You know, in a campaign you would have beaten the hell out of your opponent, and they\u2019re all worthless. You\u2019re not saying anything good about anybody out there, and that\u2019s, ‘Gosh, that\u2019s making me feel uncomfortable,\u2019 even though they probably knew you were right. Thanks for the call, Zack. It\u2019s a great experience. Don\u2019t change!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Tina in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it\u2019s nice to have you on the phone. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, my God, Rush! I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m speaking to you. Rush 24\/7 dittos from the liberal utopia of Louisiana.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. It\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, my question is, since these ‘experts\u2019 are always wrong, why can\u2019t we name names and get some new ones?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, sometimes the experts are named, and sometimes they are not. But that is the question. When the experts are wrong, they continually are used. But the point that I was trying to make about the ‘experts,\u2019 is you can find an ‘expert\u2019 that will tell you anything. You can find an expert that will have an opinion on anything, and you can call him an expert or he can call himself an expert. It\u2019s like in lawsuits, in court. Both sides go out and find expert witnesses that will be bought and paid for to tell your side what they want the jury to hear. It\u2019s no different than the Drive-By Media. But it\u2019s most prevalent in the global warming reporting and economic reporting. Especially in economic reporting, because for six consecutive months now the experts used by the Associated Press have been admittedly surprised. So you ask, ‘Why are you still using them?\u2019 They\u2019re using them because they want them to predict bad news and expect bad news when Republicans are running the show. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Chip in Cleveland, you\u2019re next, sir, on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega third-time caller dittos, and thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I started listening to you 18 years ago in Overland Park, Kansas. Mike Wallace asked Mitt Romney, ‘Have you had premarital sex?\u2019 Do you think that question will come up tonight in the Democratic debate?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. In fact, we\u2019ve been discussing that earlier today. The question was posed on one of these YouTube submissions, and we\u2019re wondering here if it will be used. Some guy from Las Vegas wants to ask Mrs. Clinton if her husband is still having extramarital affairs, and we\u2019re debating whether or not CNN will use the question. Snerdley doesn\u2019t think so. I think it\u2019s a long shot, but I think it\u2019s a possibility, especially since it\u2019s being talked about now on the most listened to radio show in America. Speaking of questions, we have some more questions that we have culled here from people who have submitted them via YouTube to CNN. Let\u2019s grab audio sound bites 20 and 21. The first one is a question for the Democrat debate tonight. The YouTube user identifies himself as ‘Johnny Silver.\u2019<\/p>\n

SILVER: My question is, ‘What are you going to do about global warming?\u2019 If we don\u2019t act soon we\u2019re going to end up trying to swim to the mall!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Would you love to have that question asked? And I don\u2019t know what this looks like. We just have the audio. Here\u2019s another YouTube question for the Democrat debate tonight from Point Hope, Alaska. It\u2019s video, and the question is asked by a snowman with its lips moving. So somebody has concocted a snowman here, and the snowman\u2019s asking this question of Democrat candidates.<\/p>\n

SNOWMAN (high-pitched voice): Hello, Democratic candidates. I\u2019ve been growing concerned that global warming, the single most important issue to the snowmen of this country, is be negated. As president, what will you do to ensure that my son will have a full and happy life?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now (laughing) people are trying to be creative and be funny with these things, and it\u2019s obviously attracting attention. I bet the use rate for every 1,000 entries they get, one of them is usable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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