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RUSH: Gideon in Greenwich, Connecticut, glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What\u2019s Hillary\u2019s equivalent of Karl Rove? Harold Ickes? Somebody like that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a second. Run that by me again.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was wondering who… I guess I\u2019m trying to imagine Hillary —<\/p>\n

RUSH: There is no equivalent to Harold Ickes. Karl Rove is not a scheming slime ball.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m sorry. No, you\u2019re right, I understand. I\u2019m just talking about in terms of her top political advisor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it would be Harold. In fact, Harold Ickes… The Clinton campaign decided that they had to go out to Iowa. They couldn\u2019t manage this campaign from a thousand miles away in Washington. Harold Ickes said, ‘Don\u2019t do that. You have a bunch of people flying into Iowa and it\u2019s going to look like Panic City.\u2019 So they went to Chicago. But, yeah, Harold Ickes is big, Howard Wolfson is —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wolfson, right. There\u2019s another one. I was just imagining those two, they\u2019re not unsophisticated. They know what they\u2019re doing, and I have to believe that if they feel the need to put out some dirt on Obama, that they will do so in a clever way. They\u2019ll try to float it out through a Republican — perhaps ‘Republican stooge,\u2019 as they might say — so that then Hillary can condemn the information when it comes out and say, ‘Well, this is Republicans.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a little late for this. The Hillary campaign\u2019s already got both feet hip deep in it here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, but they care so — you know how you say they always accuse us of being like them, of what they really are. They desire power so greatly and I just can\u2019t believe she\u2019s going to let this slip through her fingers because of Barack Obama and Oprah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, one of the problems, one of the mistakes that you are making in formulating your hypothesis and your thesis, is that they are indomitable; that they are flawless; that they never screw up; that everything that they do — whenever it looks good, looks bad — is planned, that nothing ever goes wrong for them, and this is not the case. Lots goes wrong for the Clintons. You just don\u2019t hear about a lot of it. It\u2019s like I said the other day: Clinton doesn\u2019t help anybody when he goes out to campaign for them. This guy Shaheen\u2019s already stepped in it. ‘Why, Obama might be selling drugs.\u2019 Then they\u2019re out there since last summer. They got people going around to Obama supporters, ‘He\u2019s running a slush fund. When the Republicans get hold of these things…\u2019 They\u2019re the ones putting them out, and it\u2019s hit the light of day now. The newspapers today are filled with how the Democrats are screwing everything up, from the Democrats in Congress and their Iraq war resolutions, their inability to pass any meaningful resolution. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re the majority, but they can\u2019t get any legislation passed. They lost. They\u2019re going to cave on budget items. They caved on the AMT. USA Today says that the Democrats are a party lost when it comes to Iraq, because the surge is working. They are a party adrift, and they are lost. They don\u2019t know where they are. You\u2019ve got the Democrats in the House blaming the Democrats in the Senate for nothing getting done and vice-versa. When you get to the presidential level, it\u2019s too late for Mrs. Clinton to blame the Republicans for this. Now, I don\u2019t discount your theory that they will maybe try to find some Republican stooge to say something, and I doubt that we\u2019ve heard the last of the dirty tricks from the Clinton campaign, because they are desperate. Make no mistake about this: They are desperate. This is not part of some orchestrated plan that\u2019s designed to make them look like she\u2019s really overcoming a battle. I think that was part of the original strategery<\/emphasize>, but this is almost spiraling out of their control now. It\u2019s not working. It\u2019s not bringing Obama down. Obama\u2019s numbers are not plummeting during all of this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Doug in Atlanta, I\u2019m glad you called, sir. It\u2019s nice to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Great honor. Great honor. Hey, I wanted to just briefly mention an LA Times article from December 10th that — and for two points, one for fund-raising scandal possibilities with Hillary Clinton, and then the second point was just the fact that I have not seen this mentioned in any of the media outlets anywhere. So it\u2019s kind of a story that seems to be buried. It was a story actually titled ‘Clinton Rolls a Sizable Pork Barrel,\u2019 and it talked about her being, and I quote, ‘Hillary Clinton does earmarking on a different scale from most senators, and she\u2019s made an aggressive pay-to-play earmark game,\u2019 and then they also tie a lot of those recipients of those earmarks back to them giving funds for her campaign, and you don\u2019t hear about this anywhere in the media. I don\u2019t know if you saw the story or not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I saw it. I had it in the stack a couple days ago and didn\u2019t have a chance to get to it. They never, ever, talk about the Clinton fund-raising scandals in the context of them being ‘scandals.\u2019 They just, say, ‘Oh, got some Chinese dishwasher in Chinatown, and they make like eight grand a year and they\u2019ve donated a thousand to Hillary? Oh! They must care about America. Isn\u2019t it great they\u2019re involved in the political process?\u2019 Norman Hsu! No, they\u2019re just like that. You know what? People expect it. That\u2019s why I say, ‘Put crime scene tape around Clinton headquarters.\u2019 People just know this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I mean, it\u2019s unbelievable. They\u2019re saying over a million dollars in contributions from the people that were recipients of earmarks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what they know. That\u2019s how much they know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I appreciate it, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, I\u2019m glad you called. I\u2019m not trying to bring you down. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not important. We talk about it here. I\u2019m just saying that as far as the Drive-Bys are concerned, that\u2019s one of those areas that remains that they still marvel at how the Clintons do it. They get away with it. It\u2019s because they look the other way. It\u2019s just expected. It\u2019s no different than the sun coming up every morning: The Clintons are going to have fund-raising irregularities. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Roger in Coquille, Oregon, welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a big honor, Rush, big honor.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just wanted to say that you\u2019re the one that told us that nothing the Clintons do is by accident — and I\u2019m glad you did, because we had to look at everything they do, and see if they did it on purpose, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I said, ‘Nothing that happens is a coincidence.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Coincidence. <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s basically the same thing.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: I didn\u2019t say it always works.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think that she probably has too many pots on the stove or something, and too many people doing things for her, making comments.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Here\u2019s the difference. This is being done against a black Democrat. If this were the general election and these tricks were being played against Mitt Romney, I\u2019ll give you the difference. Let\u2019s say this guy Shaheen in New Hampshire went someplace and said, ‘Do you know what? This Mormon stuff with Romney? This guy smoked marijuana. He was actually distributing this stuff during the Olympics,\u2019 the Drive-Bys would then run to Romney and demand: ‘What do you mean you were distributing drugs during the Olympics?\u2019 They would accept the premise.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When it\u2019s a black Democrat that this stuff is being said about… I mean, these libs, you know, ‘Race! Race!\u2019 big Drive-By Media, ‘Civil rights! Race!\u2019 When you\u2019ve got somebody saying this guy is selling <\/emphasize>drugs, and when you\u2019re out there trying to sabotage this guy by saying he\u2019s got a slush fund when you have crime scene tape around your headquarters… Hillary will get away with every bit of this and more against whoever the Republican nominee is, but he\u2019s not going to get away with it here — and that\u2019s<\/emphasize> their miscalculation. They\u2019re overly confident that the Drive-Bys will bend over and grab the ankles and do whatever the Clintons want, but not in this particular case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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