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RUSH: Mark in Reading, Kansas. Nice to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s my great privilege to join the program today. I would like to say that my osmotic absorption of the techniques of advanced conservative studies have lent me a special skill with truth detecting and the tone and the tenor of our liberal female candidate, and unfortunately I believe project chaos is having even greater success during the appearances of her younger ingenue, her daughter. After 70 softball appearances at which she apparently doesn\u2019t receive any hard questions about her parents\u2019 political careers, finally she received a question to which she responds, it\u2019s none of our business.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I have two sound bites here from Chelsea Clinton. And, you\u2019re right, she was off limits, nobody was allowed to talk to Chelsea Clinton, report on her. And of course the press dutifully followed the demands of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton. No such courtesy afforded the Bush twins. So Chelsea has had a charmed life in terms of not having to deal with any kind of press that is especially critical or probing. But yesterday at Butler University in Indianapolis, she took questions from students at a campaign event for her mother. One of the students, Evan Strange, asked Chelsea her opinion on the criticism of her mother and how she handled the Lewinsky scandal might be a sign of weakness, and that she might not be a strong enough candidate to be president. And this is what Chelsea said.<\/p>\n

CHELSEA: Wow, you\u2019re the first person actually that\u2019s ever asked me that question in the, I don\u2019t know, maybe 70 college campuses that I have now been to. And I do not think that\u2019s any of your business.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, she told that little dork. The apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree, does it? Here\u2019s Chelsea Clinton, it\u2019s none of your business, I\u2019ve never been asked this question, who do you think you are? The way my mom handled the Lewinsky thing, might mean she\u2019s weak, well, who do you think you are? And then on the Early Show today, CBS\u2019 Harry Smith interviewed Butler University student Evan Strange and the student paper editor Brock Benefiel. Smith said, ‘Evan, let me ask you, why did you ask that question?\u2019<\/p>\n

STRANGE: I\u2019m a supporter of Hillary, I\u2019m a Hillary — I love Hillary, so when I talk to my friends, I tell \u2019em that, one of their constant, you know, questions to me is, ‘What makes her such a strong leader,\u2019 and they always bring up, you know, that scandal, and it\u2019s not something that I asked to cause trouble. It was to show those people, you know, what makes Hillary so strong. It was basically an opportunity for Chelsea, you know, to show all the doubters, you know, how strong Hillary is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, obviously Chelsea didn\u2019t see that opportunity. Why didn\u2019t Chelsea see that opportunity? Why do you think Chelsea didn\u2019t see the opportunity to portray her mother as very strong and so forth on all of this? Now, folks, I understand, Chelsea doesn\u2019t want people to ask these questions. She was the one that was scarred by this. Hillary was the one that knew all of this was going on for all these years, but this had to be a shock to Chelsea — maybe it wasn\u2019t, who knows. I\u2019m being kind and compassionate and assuming so. But the fact that she did not seize the opportunity to portray her mother as a strong figure in all of this is quite interesting. So the next question from Harry Smith was, ‘So you were trying to give her an opportunity, then. How surprised were you by her response?\u2019<\/p>\n

BENEFIEL: I mean, I was very surprised. I can see where she\u2019d get a little defensive because of the question, you know, and just hearing ‘Lewinsky\u2019 over and over and over again, I mean I can see where she would react that way, but I mean I would have liked to hear her say something about her record or something else like that instead of just dismissing the question.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But she hasn\u2019t heard about Lewinsky over and over, she admitted that this is the first time in 70 college campus visits that anybody has ever asked her that question. Do you think they really didn\u2019t assume at Clinton, Inc., that at some point Chelsea was going to get that question? It seems to me that there would be a little bit more preparation on this rather than to say, ‘None of your business.\u2019 Anyway, I gotta take a brief time-out, folks. In normal circles yeah, ‘none of your business,\u2019 but her mom\u2019s running for president. That changes the dynamic on this stuff. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sally Quinn on the CBS Early Show today. Harry Smith talked to her. He said, ‘Should Chelsea Clinton be off limits? I mean, so many of us have tried to ask her or roll the camera while even approaching her and, ‘Turn it off or I\u2019m not going to talk to you,\u2019 is always what we hear.\u2019<\/p>\n

QUINN: What happened yesterday is Bill Clinton\u2019s legacy, and it really is heartbreaking that his daughter at this age, almost 30, is going to be confronted with this question for the rest of her life. As for whether she should be off limits, she\u2019s an adult, and she\u2019s campaigning for her parents. So she should not be off limits. And I think that anyone has the right to ask someone who\u2019s campaigning anything. You don\u2019t have to answer it, but you certainly should be prepared to be asked these questions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. That was my whole point. But this is a brilliant analysis, I hate to say this, Bill Clinton\u2019s legacy. Monica Lewinsky will never escape it, and everybody\u2019s going to want to ask Chelsea about it, and they\u2019ve been trying to rewrite his legacy every moment since they left the White House. They haven\u2019t succeeded. One more. Harry Smith says, ‘As the press, though, we basically said, ‘Okay, those are the rules, that\u2019s fine.\u2019 Have we sort of laid down for the Clintons on Chelsea?\u2019<\/p>\n

QUINN: Well, Harry, I don\u2019t understand why the press is being suckered like this, frankly. I mean, there are all these cameras, and they say turn off the cameras. And what happens if everybody gets together and just says, ‘We\u2019re not turning off the cameras?\u2019 And so if you don\u2019t want to be on the campaign trail, fine, but we\u2019re going to cover you. Frankly, in all of my years of journalism, I have never seen the press lie down like this before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s talking about for Chelsea Clinton during the eight years that Bill and Hillary were in the White House. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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