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RUSH: I have to read some of this stuff from the blog that exposed CNN\u2019s duplicity and phoniness and fraud in portraying six people as undecided, independent registered voters. That whole debate was totally in the tank. We know that Wolf Blitzer was warned by the Clinton campaign not to do a Russert, and that means don\u2019t ask her any substantive questions. They didn\u2019t follow up one time on the driver\u2019s licenses for illegal immigrants. But this is Doug Ross @ Journal, which is his blog, ‘CNN hits bottom and digs: All six debate questioners appear to be Democratic Party operatives. So much for ‘ordinary people, undecided voters.\u2019 To paraphrase Junior Soprano, CNN is so far up the DNC\u2019s hind end, Howard Dean can taste hair gel. In a nutshell, CNN\u2019s six ‘undecided voters\u2019 were: a Democratic Party bigwig, an antiwar activist, a Union official, an Islamic leader, a Harry Reid staffer,\u2019 who\u2019s not even old enough to vote yet, and ‘a radical Chicano separatist,\u2019 and it goes on, and on, and on, the story. Much too long to read to you here, but it\u2019s got pictures and some of the graphics that CNN used to describe the undecided voters. A lot of them were students, of course, some of them, but they\u2019re all operatives one way or the other. <\/p>\n

All right, let\u2019s go to the phones. Stacy in Temperance, Michigan. Never heard of it. Where\u2019s Temperance, Michigan, Stacy?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Temperance, Michigan is just about five miles — just a couple miles north of Toledo, Ohio, so we\u2019re just over the border.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, great. Okay, well, great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, listen, I\u2019m a public high school teacher, and I just want you know I\u2019ve been listening to your program since I graduated from high school in 1989.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re a Rush baby!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I guess so, yeah, my dad turned me on to you and I spoke with you ten years ago and I am the teacher who uses your dad\u2019s Fourth of July speech in my government class.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, wow, really?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I use it every year when I\u2019m teaching about the Declaration of Independence and my students love it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you very much. I\u2019m glad that lives on in that way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, it does. Listen, I wanted to talk to you about the debate. I watched the whole thing the other night, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: My condolences.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to be entertained, and I was. I really thought that the audience was very favorable towards Dennis Kucinich, and every time he spoke, when he had the opportunity, the audience loved what he said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true, but there are two reasons for this. Number one, an audience at a debate like this in the Democrat Party debate is going to be made up of the base, and the Democrat Party base right now is really fringe lunatic.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And so Kucinich is speaking their language. Now, here\u2019s another thing, and this is more important reason. Kucinich was the only — well, maybe Biden a little bit — Kucinich was the only guy who was authentic. Kucinich, you had no doubt what he believed, did you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I didn\u2019t. In fact, I thought that he was — like you said, he and Biden were the guys who really were who they are, and John Edwards, what a phony. That guy makes me cringe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. But Mrs. Clinton is inauthentic, too. And none of this matters. Mrs. Clinton is going to be the nominee, but I had a lot of people tell me they thought Kucinich was the most interesting to listen to, despite what he was saying, doesn\u2019t matter. What I\u2019ve always said, folks, passion, you can listen to people talk about something you would consider the most boring topic in the world. If two people are talking about it passionately, you will be drawn to it. It\u2019s like a magnet. Kucinich was passionate because he was talking about what he believed in. He wasn\u2019t trying to camouflage it, like Mrs. Clinton does. He wasn\u2019t trying to shelter it from anybody. He wasn\u2019t masking who he was, and he wasn\u2019t trying not to offend. He was just open, and when you\u2019re talking about things you really believe, and people ask, ‘Rush, do you still get butterflies when you make a speech?\u2019 No, because I know what I\u2019m going to say, and I\u2019m very confident that I know what I\u2019m going to say. I\u2019m very confident what I\u2019m going to say is right, and I like hearing myself speak, so no. I might get little butterflies hoping the performance aspect of it is okay, but passion and knowledge of subject and so forth is automatic in making people listen to you. That\u2019s what Kucinich had, but it\u2019s not going to translate to votes. We\u2019re getting to the point where he\u2019s not going to be in some of these debates. They\u2019ll narrow \u2019em down after some the first series of Hawkeye Cauci and the New Hampshire primary. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bob in Jackson, Michigan. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Thank you. When I watched the first hour of the Democratic debate, I didn\u2019t catch the second hour, I noticed that Bush-bashing didn\u2019t go over very good. Democrats in front of Democrats, they just got sparse applause and didn\u2019t — I\u2019m one of those Democrats that is starting to realize, hey, this is real, do these guys really know what they\u2019re doing, who does know what they\u2019re doing, who do I really want to vote for? I noticed there wasn\u2019t much reaction — good reaction towards Bush —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, look, I\u2019m gonna tell you something. That debate was interesting for only one reason, and it didn\u2019t happen so the debate turned into a disaster, and a bore, and a bomb. Four million people watched it, but you know why? Because they were waiting for the Hillary Clinton train wreck. Wolf Blitzer had been warned by the Clinton campaign that he should not do a Russert, which means ask tough questions, or just ask questions, period. And so the people were waiting for Mrs. Clinton to see if she could do her comeback, which she did. The whole thing was just a — CNN went in the tank for the Clintons. That\u2019s why Dennis Kucinich was probably the most popular guy there, as we talked about earlier, because he\u2019s the one that was most passionate, the most articulate, and the most authentic. Mrs. Clinton is not authentic at all because she\u2019s trying to hide what she really intends to do, her agenda, and her plans. Whether they bash Bush or not, that\u2019s going to keep up, at least through the foreseeable first quarter of next year. <\/p>\n

I have a prediction that these Democrats that are running around now trying to secure defeat in Iraq, once they have their nominee — and it may happen by February 5th; there\u2019s so many front-loaded primaries, it may happen by mid-February — once they have their nominee, don\u2019t be surprised if the Democrat Party tries to turn into the biggest pro-American foreign policy country that you have seen under the banner of Hillary Clinton. Don\u2019t be surprised. They might continue to run against Bush, but that\u2019s primary period stuff. You\u2019re going to see a marked change. I predict you will see a marked change in direction in a lot of issues once Mrs. Clinton has secured the nomination and is out trying to secure the votes of real people, not the lunatic-fringe kooks that populate this primary process or attend these debates. They\u2019re all plants anyway. The six kids, people that asked questions in the second half, the hour that you didn\u2019t see, they\u2019re all Democrat Party operatives. One of them is an actual intern for Dingy Harry, she\u2019s not even old enough to vote and she\u2019s portrayed there as a registered independent undecided voter. She may be 18 by the time the election comes around. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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