{"id":29013,"date":"2008-04-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:00:11","slug":"the_high_concept_primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/04\/16\/the_high_concept_primary\/","title":{"rendered":"The High-Concept Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Yesterday on this program, we spent quite a while in the third hour of the program discussing Obama\u2019s phrase, &#8216;We are the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for\u2019 and how these hicks in the small towns of America don\u2019t understand it after they come home from their second job of banging the cash register. They turn on the TV for a little news and they see Obama saying, &#8216;We are the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for,\u2019 and they go, &#8216;Huh?\u2019 We found the roots of this. I don\u2019t even remember what the roots are, but you could interpret it in one of two ways. &#8216;We are the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for,\u2019 the official interpretation of the so-called author of the phrase is, we\u2019re smarter than everybody else, and we see things other people don\u2019t; it\u2019s time for us to take action. The conservative view, &#8216;We\u2019re the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for,\u2019 would be, you know what, it\u2019s time to stop waiting for everybody else to get something done, we have to do it, we have to do it ourselves. You have two interpretations of this, the Barack Obama interpretation of &#8216;We\u2019re the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for\u2019 is just an extension of the elitism that populates the Democrat Party. We thought we would call Barack Obama headquarters and see how the phrase is used there. <\/p>\n<p>(playing of Barack Obama spoof) <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125110.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Have you ever heard the term high concept? I have, ladies and gentlemen, because I\u2019m very worldly. I\u2019ve been around. High concept is a Hollywood term. High concept is the new way to pitch a movie, one- or two-sentence story line showing why it\u2019s new, why it\u2019s different, why it will attract a large audience. So it is it is fitting, ladies and gentlemen, that this Democrat primary is inspired not by reality, but by Hollywood and the high concept. Now, the high concept, as a Hollywood term, is used for fiction. It is not used for documentaries or reality. And, of course, high concepts rarely work, but it is still a term that is used in Hollywood. How many stories have you heard about the Democrats\u2019 two great candidates? It\u2019s not the candidates, it\u2019s the concepts. Check the box office. The turnout in the Democrat primaries is not the candidates, it\u2019s the concepts, the high concepts. These candidates are not the ones that were generating this. This is the supposed high concepts here. <\/p>\n<p>High concept number one. A former first lady gets a shot to be the first female president. She\u2019s smart; she\u2019s experienced\u2019 she\u2019s ready to serve from day one. That\u2019s high concept number one that is being pitched to not just Democrat primary voters, but to all Americans. Now, remember, this is not about reality, it is about fiction. High concept, as a business term in Hollywood, refers to fiction movies. It\u2019s a story line. High concept number two. An African-American gets a shot to be the first black president. He\u2019s well spoken; he\u2019s smart; he\u2019s able to unite us all; he\u2019s able to fulfill all of our needs; he\u2019s able to bring us together and restore our prestige around the world. Remember, this is not about reality. We\u2019re talking a Hollywood movie here. We\u2019re talking high concept, which is about fiction, it\u2019s a story line. So where does this lead? <\/p>\n<p>Well, tonight we have another debate. Yes, we do. Not between Hillary and Barack Obama. The debate tonight is between high concept number one, former first lady getting a shot to be the first female president; smart, experienced, ready to serve from day one, versus high concept number two, and that is an African-American gets a shot to be the first black president; well spoken, smart, able to unite us all, fulfill our needs, bring us together, restore our prestige in the world. Which fiction will win, because both of these candidates\u2019 concepts are utter fiction, which is my point. Neither of the story lines of these two candidates are factually accurate at all. Which fiction will win out tonight, and can the fiction play out against real for six months? With the Democrat Party there will always be a rewrite because the Democrat Party lives in fiction. They cannot live in reality because to live in reality would be to expose who they are. This is one of the great things about Operation Chaos. It is bringing forth precisely who they are. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go back to the audio sound bites to illustrate. This is this morning on Morning Joe MSNBC, columnist Mike Barnicle says this about an Obama rally.<\/p>\n<p>BARNICLE: Congressman Bob Brady from Philadelphia put on an enormously successful rally. They appeared separately, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama back-to-back, Hillary Clinton came out and she sounded like the substitute teacher who comes in and makes sure you finished your homework, and Barack Obama literally, you know, lit the crowd on fire. He\u2019s an incredible speaker. I don\u2019t think that all the recent flap about people being bitter or whatever, it seemed to have no impact at least in the areas of Philadelphia where we went on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Of course not. This is not going to have any impact until the general election. Nobody expects it to have any impact here in the primaries. But this is a great illustration. Hillary Clinton, a substitute teacher coming out to make sure we\u2019ve finished our homework, and Barack Obama, a great speech. 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