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RUSH: I was talking to Snerdley here during the top-of-the-hour break and he was amplifying on a point that I made yesterday, discussing the CNN YouTube debate last night. And remember, just to refresh your memory, our discussion yesterday focused on the fact that some people, some critics, some TV critics, were mad that CNN was going to choose which YouTube videos were used as questions for this so-called debate last night. They would rather the questions that were used be voted on by the public because you could go to YouTube, you could look at all these submissions, and they wanted to have a national public poll of the best ones and then those are the ones that would be used. I pointed out that the Drive-Bys can\u2019t do that. Anybody that takes themselves seriously as a broadcaster is not going to turn over a majority of its programming to rank amateurs. And yet they did, they did. I tell you why they did it. What we were discussing was we think that they\u2019re piling dirt on their graves and that they don\u2019t know it. When they do stuff like they did last night. <\/p>\n

Say what you want about the Drive-By Media. In the old days, what made you watch was these larger-than-life news personalities, larger-than-life figures, the Walter Cronkites and the Chancellors, the Brinkleys, the Huntleys and so forth, and to a certain extent, Rather, although I think people watched Rather hoping that the crackup would happen on the air rather than after. And it did. The personalities are not as large in TV today because the new media has forced diversification and they\u2019re not a monopoly anymore, but even so, they tried to make Katie Couric into one of these authoritative figures. It hasn\u2019t worked. So what they were trying to do last night, I am convinced, CNN was trying to link itself with this burgeoning new media, the Internet. Everybody in broadcasting is in a quest for younger demographics. All of you people who think this is really good, this is so sweet, real people finally have a chance to ask these candidates questions. It was really great. No, it\u2019s not. It really isn\u2019t. People are rank amateurs for a reason. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a romantic notion here that we\u2019re bringing the country together and all of this democracy and isn\u2019t it wonderful and so forth. This is no different than having a live audience and having somebody stand out there with a microphone. There\u2019s nothing new about this. It\u2019s no different than allowing viewers to send in e-mails and have somebody pick them and ask candidates questions from e-mails. But this actually put the rank amateurs on television and made them quasi-reporters. And guess who wasn\u2019t there? None of the people that CNN theoretically promotes and supports as the stars on their networks, other than Anderson Cooper, who was the moderator. But we didn\u2019t see Wolf Blitzer, we didn\u2019t see the highly trained specialists that are the, quote, unquote, real journalists, regardless what you think of them. <\/p>\n

This is happening in a lot of places. People who have no business hosting radio talk shows, have them. People who have no business with recording contracts, have them. People who have no business doing any job at the highest level — particularly in the entertainment industry — are getting these jobs for a host of reasons. But in the case of the Drive-Bys, I think while they believe that they are enhancing their image and solidifying a relationship with the yutes of America, via this YouTube stunt last night, they\u2019re actually diminishing themselves — which we like, so I probably ought not say much more about that. (interruption) Hm-hm. Well. All right, all right, all right, all right. Okay. I\u2019ve got that bite. You want to — (Laughing.) Snerdley, he\u2019s getting all worked up in there, folks. He said, ‘Well, you gotta tell \u2019em that everybody\u2019s opinion doesn\u2019t matter. It doesn\u2019t matter. Some opinions are worthless. Some of them are stupid.\u2019 It\u2019s just like you\u2019re entitled to be wrong but it doesn\u2019t mean you think you\u2019re right. I\u2019ve said it before, a different way: none of us have a right to be heard. We have a right to speak, short of the McCain-Feingold law, but none of us have a right to be heard. The theory behind we all have a right to be heard is what makes everybody qualified as a democracy participating citizen to ask questions. But not everybody\u2019s opinion — not everybody\u2019s question is worth anything. <\/p>\n

There was a question on reparations last night. It\u2019s from a guy named Will from Boston, and he says, ‘I hope, you know, they put this question on. It\u2019s a question in the back of everybody\u2019s head. You know, in some people, it\u2019s further back than others, collecting cobwebs, but is African-Americans ever going to get reparations for slavery? I know you all are going to run around this question, dipping and dodging, so let\u2019s see how far you can all get.\u2019 And the Breck Girl decided to tackle it.<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: I\u2019m not for reparations. I can answer that question. But I think there are other things we can do to create some equality that doesn\u2019t exist in this country today. Today there was a report that right here in Charleston, African-Americans are paying more than their white counterparts for mortgages than any other place in America, any other place in the United States of America, and here\u2019s an example, what is the conceivable explanation for this? That black people are paying more for their mortgage — and, by the way, it\u2019s not just low income African-Americans, it\u2019s high income African-Americans. There\u2019s absolutely no explanation for this. It goes to the basic question that I raised just a few minutes ago. To have a president that\u2019s going create — he\u2019s gonna fight for equality, fight for real change, big change, bold change, we\u2019re gonna have to have somebody — we can\u2019t trade our insiders for their insiders. That doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What?<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: What we need is somebody who will take these people on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who?<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: These big banks —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: — these mortgage companies, <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: — big insurance companies, <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: — big drug companies,<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: — that\u2019s the only way we\u2019re going to bring about change.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You take a look at John Edwards\u2019 enemies list — and this will go for all of them. Big Oil, Big Drug, Big Food, Big Dairy, Wal-Mart, every one of these successful industries they have targeted. There\u2019s the Breck Girl. Now, the point here is, reparations is not in the back of everybody\u2019s head. There is no Drive-By journalist even at CNN that would have even conceived of asking that question. But somebody sent it in and somebody at CNN said, ‘Whoa, excellent question.\u2019 But this is a great example of how you turn this stuff over to rank amateurs, and this is what you get. Now, here\u2019s Obama. He responded to the reparations question, too.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I think the reparations we need right here in South Carolina is investment, for example, in our schools. I did a town hall meeting —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Give me a break.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — in Lawrence, South Carolina, in an area called the corridor of shame. They\u2019ve got buildings that students are trying to learn in that were built right after the civil war.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whose fault is that?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: And we\u2019ve got teachers who are not trained to teach the subjects they\u2019re teaching in —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. How did they get the jobs then?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We\u2019ve got to understand there are corridors of shame all across the country, and if we make the investments and understand that those are our children, that\u2019s the kind of reparations that are really going to make a difference in America right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but your kids are never going to go to those schools, and that\u2019s what the question came up to all the candidates, ‘Would you send your kid to public school?\u2019 But I mean this is obscene. The amount of money we spend on education every year in this country, this is the kind of reparations we need in South Carolina, is investment. But this is a winner because everybody has kids — well, not everybody. But those who have kids are concerned primarily about their education so that eventually the kids can leave and have their own lives. So when you start talking about we need money for education, it\u2019s going to be very hard — most people are saying, ‘We\u2019re already spending enough on education,\u2019 people\u2019s hearts will melt. Because it\u2019s for the children. But this is intellectually absurd. But I guarantee you that answer is why Obama did well in the focus groups, because he cares, Mr. Limbaugh, he cares, that\u2019s what you can\u2019t understand, you cold-hearted creep. No, no, no, no. By the way, that voice is the voice of the new castrati, linguini spines, you know, neutered, if you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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