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RUSH: We had this picture the other day with this story that Mrs. Clinton spent a whole day with a nurse. She spent a whole day out there with a nurse. We talked about it yesterday, but I didn\u2019t make an observation because it didn\u2019t occur to me until afterwards. We were supposed to watch this with a straight face. What was her purpose? She was going out there to see what nurses do, right? She was trying to show solidarity with the nurses. But the public pronouncements from herself and her campaign was she was out there learning what nurses do. She\u2019s following a nurse around to, in her own words, ‘see what a nurse does.\u2019 Now, why is she not laughed off the stage? Why are people not just cackling uncontrollably at that statement? I\u2019m Hillary Clinton. I\u2019m here running for president. I\u2019m here to see what a nurse does.<\/emphasize> Well, who is she? She\u2019s the first lady of health care. She knew and knows nothing about health care! She had this comprehensive health care reform bill. It was a disaster. <\/p>\n

But she set herself up as the expert in every aspect of health care — except, I guess, about nurses and what nurses do. What makes this even harder to read with a straight face is Hillary\u2019s mother-in-law (You remember Bill\u2019s mother?) was a nurse. Hillary\u2019s mother-in-law was a nurse, and she\u2019s following a nurse, so it was pure theater, pure show. The idea that she can learn anything from a nurse is highly, highly contradictory. Then, of course, we\u2019ve got this story with her papers in the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor. Two million documents, two million pieces of paper from her days as first lady that will not be released — and, by the way, it\u2019s legal to do this. It\u2019s the Presidential Document Act. It\u2019s fine, but that\u2019s not the point. She\u2019s put her past in a lockbox at the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor, and it\u2019s this sort of trick that explains why people are so polarized about her. She\u2019s running for president on the basis of her ‘experience,\u2019 her perceived experience, most notably her stint as co-president. But now she\u2019s refusing to release relevant records that would enable scrutiny of those years. It\u2019s this way with the Clintons. They expect the world will let \u2019em have things both ways, in the sense of entitlement and royalty that is the essence of the Clintons\u2019 entire life, the desire on the part of Democrats that they be Camelot II. It\u2019s similar to when she runs around as a feminist but makes Bill tag along to everything because she can\u2019t pull it off without him there, or during the White House years when sometimes she was hailed as the smartest woman policy expert, and when things got tough she had to hide behind the apron of first lady in the traditional sense, and they let her get away with both of these contradictions. She\u2019s a shape shifter, if you will, and it\u2019s scary, because there\u2019s no ‘there\u2019 there. There\u2019s no substance. We don\u2019t know what it is, and this leads to her negatives that are 49% that Karl Rove referred to, and that\u2019s based on a likeability factor that\u2019s not very high. Now, here\u2019s the ad that I asked Karl Rove about. This is the audio to the ad. It\u2019s Mrs. Clinton\u2019s first ad running in Iowa.<\/p>\n

HILLARY (screaming): As I travel around America, I hear from so many people who feel like they\u2019re just invisible to their government.<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: Hillary Clinton has spent her life standing up for people others don\u2019t see.<\/p>\n

HILLARY (sappy music): If you\u2019re a family that is struggling, and you don\u2019t have health care, well, you are invisible to this president. If you\u2019re a single mom trying to find affordable child care so you can go to work, well, you\u2019re invisible, too. And I never thought I would see that our soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan would be treated as though they were invisible as well. Americans from all walks of life across our country may be invisible to this president, but they\u2019re not invisible to me and they won\u2019t be invisible to the next president of the United States!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. The White House called the ad outrageous and absurd and Karl Rove reacted to the ad — well, I would say strenuously — about 20 minutes ago. By the way, the transcript and audio of the interview with Karl Rove will be posted as soon as we can get it up on RushLimbaugh.com, so the Drive-Bys can look at it and take it out of context. We\u2019ll have it up there for you to be able to see it and listen to it. If you missed it, if you\u2019re just joining us, you must hear this, because I asked him what\u2019s ‘fatally flawed\u2019 about Hillary Clinton, and while saying he didn\u2019t want to answer, he did. This ad specifically he responded to in an amount of detail that I would describe as a full frontal. So they asked Mrs. Clinton about it, ‘Mrs. Clinton, the White House says that you\u2019re just being outrageous and you\u2019re absurd with this ad of yours in which you say that so many Americans are invisible to them.\u2019<\/p>\n

<\/a>HILLARY: The White House just attacked me a few minutes ago saying, how dare I say that Americans were invisible to the President. Well, not only have I said it and am saying it now, I will keep saying it, because I happen to believe it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s at a campaign rally, and she was in Dubuque, Iowa. So she runs an attack ad. The White House responds to it, and she goes (whining, ‘They\u2019re attacking me! They\u2019re attacking me! Wah-hah-hah! Well, I\u2019m going to keep saying it! I\u2019m going to keep saying it!\u2019 It\u2019s… (sigh) I don\u2019t know. That ad is sophistry because it is so flawed and untrue. (laughing) With this roiling economy going great guns, consumer confidence what it is, people\u2019s lives reported to be 94% satisfactory or better, according to the latest Harris poll. I want to take you back. I told Karl I was going to play this sound bite from June 14th. We played audio of President Bush\u2019s kind remarks about President Clinton and Hillary at the unveiling of their official portraits in the White House, and I issued this command to Cookie. <\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Cookie, we\u2019re going to keep these sound bites handy, and every time Hillary or Bill or somebody in their direct orb rips into Bush, we\u2019re going to play what Bush said about them at the unveiling of their portrait and we\u2019ll just let the side by side, A-B juxtaposition speak for itself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, Ed, here\u2019s what I want you to do. I want you to go back, and I want you to play the audio of Hillary\u2019s ad, cut one, and right back-to-back, play cut four. Are you ready? This is what we\u2019re going to do. We\u2019re going to play for you this ad again, and then immediately following will be what the president said about both of them — well, about Hillary — at the unveiling of their portrait in the White House.<\/p>\n

HILLARY (screaming): As I travel around America, I hear from so many people who feel like they\u2019re just invisible to their government.<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: Hillary Clinton has spent her life standing up for people others don\u2019t see.<\/p>\n

HILLARY (sappy music): If you\u2019re a family that is struggling, and you don\u2019t have health care, well, you are invisible to this president. If you\u2019re a single mom trying to find affordable child care so you can go to work, well, you\u2019re invisible, too. And I never thought I would see that our soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan would be treated as though they were invisible as well. Americans from all walks of life across our country may be invisible to this president, but they\u2019re not invisible to me and they won\u2019t be invisible to the next president of the United States!<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: From the earlier days of her youth in Park Ridge, Illinois, Hillary Rodham impressed her family and friends as a person of great ability and serious purpose. At Maine Township High School South, at Wellesley College and at Yale Law School, classmates saw her not just as an achiever, but as a role model and as a leader. She inspires respect and loyalty from those who know her, and it was a good day in both their lives when they met at the library at Yale Law School. <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (Laughter.)<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Hillary\u2019s commitment to public service continued when she left this house. Listen, New York politics is serious business. <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (Laughter.)<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: It\u2019s rough business. It takes an extraordinary person to campaign and win the United States Senate. She has proven herself more equal to the challenge. She is the only sitting senator whose portrait hangs in the White House. <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (Laughter and applause.) <\/p>\n

RUSH: I ask you: Of those two, who exhibits the more class? Who exhibits the more general sense of kindness and manners, just listening to those two things back to back? We\u2019re going to keep these bites. We\u2019re going to keep these. Every time they get personal like this in the Clinton campaign, with Hillary and the ad, we\u2019re going to run the juxtaposition. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, folks, as a personal aside to Mrs. Clinton, I would rather be invisible to the government, quite frankly. Then it\u2019s not pursuing me all over the place and telling me where I can and can\u2019t smoke, and what I can and can\u2019t eat. I would love to be invisible to people like you!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ed in Dayton, Ohio, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us. I\u2019m glad you waited.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, a point I wanted to make — and I\u2019ve been thinking about this for quite some time — by Bush and the others of his administration not responding every time the Democrats have called him just about every name under the sun, what piece of audio or videotape are they going to play as they get into this campaign when they start talking about the evil administration that has divided America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not only that. You know, I can tell you I\u2019ve asked the president about it. I\u2019ll tell you one of the things that he told me, and I think Karl Rove referred to it in the interview. This is really true. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a political calculation to this, although there might be. Well, it goes without saying there is. His reverence for the office is such that he\u2019s not going to do anything in public, adopt a public demeanor or shrink, slink down to the level of gutter partisanship because he thinks it will denigrate the office and he\u2019s not going to do that. He has such reverence for it. That, by the way, has a tie to history. You heard what Rove said in the first half of the interview last half hour. He said, the president says to Rove when Rove gets all hyperventilated by the latest Washington Post or New York Times editorial, the president says, ‘Don\u2019t worry about it, Karl. History will get it right, and we\u2019ll both be dead anyway. It won\u2019t matter.\u2019 So he\u2019s got a historical perspective, as all presidents do, and he\u2019s not going to be writing a legacy when he leaves the office because it\u2019s being written now and he\u2019s content to let historians write it. That\u2019s very Reaganesque, by the way. That was Reagan\u2019s attitude about things, and it\u2019s rooted in optimism. It\u2019s rooted in good cheer, and this president has it, too. So there\u2019s a historical aspect to also not getting down in the dirt, as well as the political thing you mentioned about not giving opponents in a political race sounds for TV ads. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: John in Lincoln, Nebraska. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Mega dittos from a Nebraska Army National Guard Cavalry Scout.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you, sir. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. We salute you!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. I\u2019m glad to be following a caller that set the bar so low.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) Okay. It just worked out that way. (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling because I heard Hillary Clinton\u2019s comments about the soldiers being invisible to the president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I realized the ultimate example of that: her and her husband walking onto the Marine Corps helicopters and acting like those Marine Corps guards weren\u2019t standing there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amen, bro! Amen. Ignoring them in the White House? Yep. Absolutely. It\u2019s a great, great point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The entire country has seen this on TV already, and it\u2019s her husband, not George Bush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. (Clinton impression) ‘Don\u2019t forget that letter to Colonel Holmes I sent out there. ‘I loathe the military,\u2019 man. Ha-ha-ha.\u2019 These people have made no secret of the fact that they\u2019re anti-military. That\u2019s a great point. I\u2019m glad you called, John. Thanks much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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