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RUSH: Here\u2019s this audio sound bite. I actually got two of them. It happened on PMSNBC today. For some reason they\u2019ve got Super Tuesday. PMSNBC is running another telethon for the Democrat Party, and this morning, Tim Russert spoke with the Washington Post\u2019s Chris Cillizza about last night\u2019s CNN-YouTube debate, and Russert said to Cillizza, ‘These after-debate focus groups, what do they tell you, and what about the disparity that appears between what people told focus groups in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and what some of the pundits are saying watching the same debate?\u2019<\/p>\n

CILLIZZA: Well, you know, it\u2019s — it\u2019s that disparity that keeps me up at night, to be honest, Tim. You know, I worry because I watched the debate and I thought Senator Obama did well, I thought he did better than he had in previous debates, but I still thought senators Clinton and Edwards did better, and then as Chuck pointed out, we do have all these focus groups that said Obama did better. There appears to be some sort of chasm between the public perception and what, folks, like myself, you know, in Washington think. It worries me because I\u2019m always worried as a journalist about missing the boat, you know, missing that Howard Dean rise —<\/p>\n

RUSH: BS.<\/p>\n

CILLIZZA: — or whatever it is, so I\u2019m going to try and pay real close attention over the next couple days about what that\u2019s about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re not. I don\u2019t believe that for a second. You\u2019re not worried about as a journalist about ‘missing the boat.\u2019 You\u2019re worried about people that don\u2019t see it your way. What\u2019s wrong with them? That\u2019s the attitude. ‘What wrong with these people? We\u2019re the professionals here. We\u2019re the experts. We\u2019re the journalists. We\u2019re the Drive-By Media. We\u2019re supposed to tell \u2019em who did best!\u2019 By the way, Hannity &amp; Colmes last night had Frank Luntz on there last night. He had a focus group, too, and that focus group came in there, I think if I got this right, the focus group came in there predisposed to Hillary. After the debate they all thought Obama just skunked her, and that\u2019s what Cillizza is saying here. I told you why in the first hour today. He knew the audience. ‘Can\u2019t we all just get along? I want to go talk to these people that dislike us and find out why and then hope that I can make them like us, and then we can all live in peace and we can disband the military!\u2019 That\u2019s the audience for watching this thing last night, and Obama gave them that. You know, Hillary is full of nuance, you can\u2019t help when you look at Hillary, you know she\u2019s talking about herself. She\u2019s got a likability problem that everybody acknowledges, and she\u2019s got a problem being real. It didn\u2019t help, Jimmy, you noticed this last night, got that camera right behind her. It stopped us dead in our tracks watching this debate last night. I was distracting. Here\u2019s the next exchange between Russert and Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

RUSSERT: In fact, Chris Cillizza, there have been numerous reports that all 3,000 YouTube questions were available on the website before the debate, so the candidates or their campaign staffs had access to all the questions.<\/p>\n

CILLIZZA: Right. It\u2019s sort of like an open-book test in truth. You know, all the answers are there. You just have to, eh, spend the time to find them. Uh, I think, look, someone Clinton\u2019s staff — and I would guess on Obama\u2019s staff and Edwards\u2019 staff, too — probably went through the vast majority of them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The answers were there? No, the questions were there. But I didn\u2019t know that. Did you know that? Did you know you could…? That makes this thing an even sorrier excuse! If you know what the possible questions are, and to have inane answers like we got last night, pshew! Maybe they didn\u2019t look at them. If they did it was more pathetic than I thought. Scott, Peoria, Illinois, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s a thrill to be on your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I didn\u2019t watch last night. I\u2019ve watched things like this in the past. But I think I\u2019ve got a good feel for what these powder-puff, feel-good questions were about, and I think everybody is under the premise that they\u2019re trying to figure out who the best Democratic candidate is, but after thinking about this now, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the point at all. I think this is like you said in the earlier dialogue here that this is a campaign for the Democratic Party. It\u2019s not about which candidate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, because, ‘Which candidate?\u2019 is decided. We know it\u2019s going to be Hillary. We just know this. Sweat it there\u2019s an 80% chance that she\u2019s next president. I haven\u2019t revised that. Did you see Newt Gingrich unload on the Republicans? Did you hear about this? (whistles) I\u2019ll share it<\/a> with you when we come back. I think Scott\u2019s a good point. Right now it\u2019s a commercial for the Democrat Party, and it\u2019s maybe not by design, but it is primary voters that they\u2019re aiming at, but I guarantee you, Kucinich is trying to stand out. He\u2019s a poor little guy doing everything he can to stand out. Chris Dodd tried to stand out a little bit less. I was surprised Edwards was so weak. He was not the strong woman last night that I thought that he was going to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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