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RUSH: This is North Canton, Ohio. Rick, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hey, thanks for taking my call —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and thanks for doing what you do. I just wanted to make a comment on the whole Hillary appearance issue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I just wanted to say it seems that the left is always willing to embrace appearances, except when it works to their disadvantage, and I\u2019m reminded of the Nixon-Kennedy debate. People that listened to that on the radio thought Nixon was the clear-cut winner. But the people that watched on TV came out with, I think, 60% or just a shade over 60% of the people saying that Kennedy won that debate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No question about it. It\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Strictly on appearance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Strictly on appearance. Don Hewitt, who recently retired from 60 Minutes, made Kennedy up. He applied some makeup and didn\u2019t give Nixon any. Nobody thought to use it. It was on black-and-white TV, and of course Nixon broke out with the sweat on the upper lip there, and it was all over. Look, this is my point. Appearance in the visual arts — and politics is a visual art because it\u2019s on television — matters. It just does. Now, it\u2019s a little less important the smaller the election. In a state election, it\u2019s not that big a deal. In a local election, it\u2019s even less big a deal. Nationally, though? This kind of stuff, when you\u2019re talking about presidents, it matters. I can\u2019t remember the names off the top of my head, but if you go back prior to the advent of television, we had some tubs as president. We had some huge guys, fat guys, Chester Alan Arthur. (interruption) Warren Harding. They were pigs by today\u2019s standards. But back then, it was a sign of success. Overweight men, titans, it was a sign of prominence, a sign of power, a sign of great wealth and success. Today, it doesn\u2019t say that at all as an image. It says something else: no discipline, doesn\u2019t care, slob, all these things.<\/p>\n

No matter how well dressed you are; no matter how neatly coiffed you are, if you\u2019re fat, you\u2019re still a pig — and, if you\u2019re on television and you\u2019re fat, you\u2019re either a character actor and nobody knows your name, but you\u2019re not prominent. Well, a couple of exceptions. Well, yeah, look what happened to Orson Welles when he ballooned up. He ended up selling wine on Monday Night Football. Who else out there? Burl Ives made it for a while. Jackie Gleason, but he tried. Jackie Gleason was roller-coastering up and down. He lost the weight. There was a ‘Jackie Gleason Diet.\u2019 But Jackie Gleason used to eat over at Patsy\u2019s. He had all this sausage and stuff. I mean, he would take the stuff over to where he lived. Marlon Brando, yeah, as soon as he ballooned up, it was, ‘Good-bye, Don Vito Corleone,\u2019 and he got a couple roles after it, but it\u2019s just the way it is, folks. You know, aging on women in public, like presidents, probably has the same effect as men who once were very studly, ballooning up. It\u2019s just the way it is. It\u2019s sad, but that\u2019s the way our culture is. That\u2019s all I was talking about the other day. <\/line> <\/line> BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: I need to correct myself. Warren Harding was not fat. In fact, he was nominated because he ‘looked like a president\u2019 back in those days. It was Taft, and McKinley, and Cleveland, and Garfield that were the fat guys that were elected president. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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