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RUSH: Tommy in Brooklyn, I\u2019m glad you waited, Tommy. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Mega dittos from New York City.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I\u2019m really nervous here so you gotta help me out. Talking about Barack, I was listening to — actually I was watching Meet the Press, and I couldn\u2019t believe, when he said that he doesn\u2019t like Christians — actually he didn\u2019t even say he didn\u2019t like \u2019em, he says, ‘we\u2019 didn\u2019t like them, and I take that to mean that the entire Democrat Party doesn\u2019t like Christians.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tommy, I missed that segment. What was the question, do you remember?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I really don\u2019t remember the question. I just heard it and I was like in shock. I couldn\u2019t believe that he actually said that. He didn\u2019t say, ‘I don\u2019t like Christians.\u2019 He says ‘we.\u2019 Like I said, I\u2019m taking it out of context.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I have just been told that it was on a question dealing with reaching out, and Obama said, ‘Democrats need to do a better job of reaching out to people,\u2019 quote, unquote, ‘we don\u2019t like,\u2019 and that\u2019s where he included evangelicals and the Christians?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, Tommy, another way to look at this is: ‘Thank you, Mr. Obama. (clapping) You\u2019ve just been honest. You don\u2019t like Christians.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, could you keep playing that? Because you have to let everybody know. I mean they keep saying how they love everybody, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. We know that\u2019s a crock.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can I ask you one more question?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, of course.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Could you put up the same challenge to CNN that you put out to MSNBC, with Wolf Blitzer and see if he can finally get Hillary to basically — not basically, but, you know — state what position she\u2019s taken on these licenses? Because, you know, I\u2019m still dumbfounded.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no. They\u2019re going to. I don\u2019t need to put the challenge out there. I\u2019ve been there, done that. I did that two weeks ago. At some point, there\u2019s going to be another debate. Somebody is going to ask this question, if not a journalist, one of her opponents will bring this back up. This is not going to go away \u2019til she answers it, and, in fact, I\u2019ve got somewhere here in the Hillary Stack — I\u2019ve started every day, and I\u2019ve got a Hillary Stack. You know, I wade into it very, very carefully because of the potential onslaught of blue funk (sigh), which happened a couple Fridays ago. But somewhere in this stack, when I get the courage to look at it, is somebody — Oh! It\u2019s Dan Balz at the Washington Post on a blog (B-a-l-z, for those of you in Rio Linda: Dan Balz), and he\u2019s going on and on about how Mrs. Clinton\u2019s answer goes on and on for 30 seconds to two minutes, and nobody can understand it, and how it is a excellent illustration of obfuscation, trying to have it both ways. I\u2019ll find that, because it is interesting. It will never see the day in print, but it is on the Washington Post website. Thanks, Tommy.<\/p>\n

This is Reggie in Chicago. Hey, how about Rex Grossman? Ha-ha!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush. I wanted to chime in on the Republicans side of the primary process. I read this morning on the Drudge Report that, they had an article from the New York Sun that Mayor Giuliani is losing his front-runner status to Governor Romney, because Governor Romney\u2019s leading in the polls in Iowa, what else, New Hampshire, Michigan, Nevada, and South Carolina. Is it possible for Mayor Giuliani to lose all those and still win the nomination?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no. You\u2019ve just named… If somebody loses Iowa and New Hampshire, especially if the winner is a surprise — even if the second-place finisher is a surprise in either of those places — the whole thing is shaken up. So, the analysis on that, to lose all those states, there\u2019s so many front-loaded states here, that it would be devastating. No, it wouldn\u2019t be a guaranteed loss just by virtue of the votes there, but it would be the old momentum factor that would then emerge and might lead to performances in future states down the road less than what polling numbers indicate he will do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So what…? I mean, what if Governor Romney just wins Iowa and New Hampshire? What\u2019s going to…? What\u2019s going to happen after that, then? I mean, is he going to get, like, a ton of momentum?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, no. You mean Rudy? Would he lose momentum?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I mean if Governor Romney wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, isn\u2019t he going to have, like, a boatload of free press, or earned press, or whatever you call it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no Republican is ever going to get that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughter)<\/p>\n

RUSH: If Romney wins either of those states, there will be articles about, ‘Hmm, maybe people are willing to overlook the MORMON factor.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because the whole point of the Republican primary process, as far as the media is concerned, Reggie, is to destroy \u2019em all so that whoever wins it doesn\u2019t have a prayer during the general election. If Rudy happens to win, ‘Hmm, it must be that Iowans and people that live in New Hampshire don\u2019t mind a guy who had three THREE WIVES AND HIS KIDS HATE HIM,\u2019 that that will be the focus of the stories in June. If it\u2019s Huckabee, well, I guess the people of Iowa are not concerned that somebody else from Hope, Arkansas, might win the Republican nomination, and who\u2019s had a weight problem. He lost a hundred pounds a long time ago. Can he keep it off?\u2019 Things like that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. But Huckabee —<\/p>\n

RUSH: If Ron Paul wins — which, who knows? The guy raised $4 million bucks in one day. Nobody can figure that out. If Ron Paul wins, then the press coverage would be, ‘Hmm, maybe the Republicans in Iowa and in New Hampshire really aren\u2019t worried about mental instability.\u2019 Whatever, they will never give free and open-ended coverage and fawning coverage to the Republican nominee. If Ron Paul goes Libertarian — you know, he ran as a Libertarian some years ago until he joined the Republican Party. If he goes Libertarian and forms essentially a third party vote, then the press will be giddy. ‘Ron Paul, unhappy with treatment in Republican primary, savages party, sabotages party by going third party, guaranteeing Hillary another president elected with less than 50% of the vote just like her husband twice. Yay!\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Am I still on, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you\u2019re still on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I was going to say: ‘Has anybody ever lost those states and went on to win a nomination?\u2019 is what I\u2019m asking you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s not what you asked in the first place? (laughs) That\u2019s not what you asked. ‘Is there anybody that\u2019s lost those states and gone on to win?\u2019 I\u2019m sure there is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There has been? Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, look, at this time 2004, Howard Dean, was roiling the race, he had all the money, supposed all the money, Internet contributions, goes into Iowa and loses it — and then I endorsed him, and that was it. Bill Clinton came in second in New Hampshire and was the ‘Comeback Kid.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: But Rudy —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was after the 60 Minutes fiasco with the lamp falling on him. Staged. But yeah, you can lose those and still win.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But Rudy\u2019s not going to come in second in Iowa. He (cell phone glitch).<\/p>\n

RUSH: What?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rudy\u2019s polling fourth or fifth in Iowa. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to win Iowa, for sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He can withstand a loss in the Hawkeye Cauci. He can come in second in New Hampshire. Look, if you come in fourth or fifth in Iowa, and you finish second in New Hampshire, (gasp!) ‘Look at the move Rudy made after fourth or fifth,\u2019 and then they\u2019ll get into the bit about how, you know, people in New Hampshire must be turning a blind eye to somebody who recommended a guy who has just been indicted, for homeland security. They\u2019ll come up with all sorts of spin. Trust me on this. Don\u2019t doubt me. The Drive-By Media\u2019s objective is to destroy every Republican candidate, except the ones who cannot win.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, Mike, you got audio sound bite 23 delivered into your confines yet? Well, have it standing by. We\u2019ve got the Barack Obama bite that was referred to by previous caller. This is Obama on people that, quote, unquote, we don\u2019t like. Russert\u2019s question, ‘You had a group of supporters on a Bible tour in South Carolina, headed by a singer called Donnie McClurkin, who said that homosexuality was a curse, and that he had been cured by prayer. Do you believe homosexuality is a curse? Do you believe it\u2019s something that you are born gay or that you can change your behavior?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I do not believe being gay or lesbian is a choice, and so I disagree with Reverend McClurkin, but understand, Tim, part of what I hope to offer as president is the ability to reach to people that I don\u2019t agree with, and the evangelical community is one where the Democratic Party, I think, we have generally seen as hostile, we haven\u2019t been reaching out to them, and I think that if we\u2019re going to make significant progress on critical issues that we face, whether it\u2019s education, or health care, or energy, or our foreign policy in this country, we\u2019ve got to be able to get beyond our comfort zones and just talk to people we don\u2019t like (pause) or just talk to people we like, or people that we agree with on every single issue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Might have been a slip-up there. I think it was a little faux pas that he tried to gracefully cover, ‘Reach out to people that we don\u2019t like.\u2019 But you know what strikes me here, ‘The evangelical community is one where the Democrat Party I think we have generally seen as hostile.\u2019 Do you ever stop to think that they, Mr. Obama, might see you and your party as hostile? You think maybe they were minding their own business one day, you came along and started insulting them, and they might look at you as hostile? Anyway, that\u2019s Barack Obama. That\u2019s what that controversy was about.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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