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RUSH: My friends, I want you to know that I had easily 30 sound bites today in the roster. We have played four or five. Most of the sound bites were of Drive-By Media types discussing Operation Chaos. I did not share them with you today because yesterday was filled with that, and as you know, I hate making this show about me. Unfortunately, Operation Chaos is about me, and the Drive-Bys are talking about me. (interruption) It\u2019s about the volunteers, but the Drive-By Media analysts are not talking about the volunteers. They are talking about me. Let me give you one example here. This is from MSNBC\u2019s Race for the White House. David ‘Stretch\u2019 Gregory and TIME Magazine\u2019s Jay Carney have this exchange about Operation Chaos.<\/p>\n

GREGORY: There\u2019s been a lot of talk about the so-called Operation Chaos, Rush Limbaugh calling on Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in order to prolong the Democratic fight. Many Democrats have scoffed at the idea, but a new poll may give credence to the chaos theory in Indiana. The latest Suffolk University poll has Hillary Clinton beating Barack Obama 49-43. It also has 38% of voters saying they will vote for John McCain in the fall if their candidate doesn\u2019t win the Democratic nomination. Do Indiana Republican voters hold the key on primary day, Jay? It\u2019s not just about moderate Republicans who may want to vote for Obama or Clinton. Could they be meddling here?<\/p>\n

CARNEY: I think based on what we\u2019ve seen, there is some meddling going on. The risk here is that Republicans who are trying to meddle — Rush Limbaugh included — ought to be careful what they wish for. <\/p>\n

GREGORY: Ha, ha, ha!<\/p>\n

CARNEY: Hillary Clinton could very well be a much more powerful candidate in the fall, uh, than Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was David ‘Stretch\u2019 Gregory and Jay Carney of TIME Magazine speculating on the effects of Operation Chaos. Look, we have just loads and loads of sound bites like this today, and that\u2019s just echoing Hillary\u2019s line because Hillary is the one who also when asked about Operation Chaos way back when, not by name, on Fox &amp; Friends, said, ‘Be careful what you wish for, Rush.\u2019 She threatened me! She threatened on national TV. But I didn\u2019t want to load you up today with these sound bites, because it\u2019s been that way every day. The Hardball discussion last night was just over the top, but… (interruption) Well, okay. Snerdley is demanding to hear it. Let me find them. The roster is all out of order. I need the roster here in front of me because it may not just be five. No. Grab number six, because Chris Matthews introduced the piece. They did a whole section in Operation Chaos, and Matthews plays tape of me on yesterday\u2019s program talking about the objective of Operation Chaos. He gets it all wrong in setting it up, and then he goes to Mike Barnicle. ‘Mike Barnicle, let me have your thoughts on Rush Limbaugh. How many Dittoheads does it take to change a primary?\u2019<\/p>\n

BARNICLE: He\u2019s a fabulous entertainer, and he\u2019s entertaining himself. Chris, I was in your home state for more than a week, talked to a lot of people; never encountered a single person who was switching registration in order to, uh, participate in Operation Chaos. So I — I imagine there\u2019s a residual effect to Rush because he\u2019s a powerful guy, but I think it\u2019s minimal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re just in denial. They\u2019re just in denial. Let\u2019s see. Cynthia Tucker was on this show, too, but we don\u2019t…. Let\u2019s go to cut number nine, Mike Barnicle again, and Matthews said, ‘Mike. If we get more votes for Hillary Clinton than are honestly cast for her, in other words, more than reflects her popularity, doesn\u2019t Rush succeed even if he only adds a little bit to this mess?\u2019<\/p>\n

BARNICLE: You know what Rush is missing here? As I said earlier, he\u2019s a great entertainer, and he\u2019s a great American entertainer, and he preaches largely three hours a day to the American heartland — and they listen to him, and they respond. And he\u2019s missing a truly great American story, I would submit, and it is this. A black guy from Chicago running for president of the United States who two years would have difficulty getting a cab in a rainy Friday afternoon in Midtown Manhattan, is this close to securing the nomination of one of our two political parties. That\u2019s a huge story that Rush — because he\u2019s bound to ideology — has missed, and he\u2019s not the only one who\u2019s missed it.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: We have an African-American with a real chance to be president!<\/p>\n

BARNICLE: Right.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: We have a POW with a real good chance to be president! It\u2019s all to our benefit, this diversity! We\u2019re pushing back on Rush Limbaugh!<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘We\u2019re pushing back on Rush Limbaugh.\u2019 There we go: ‘diversity.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t matter what Obama stands for, he\u2019s black. And, of course, to set it up, I\u2019m missing that we\u2019re missing that? Who is it that has been defending Obama against Democrat attacks on his race from the get-go? Who is it, Mr. Barnicle? If you guys would take the time to listen, when the LA Times and other people were doing stories on ‘Is Obama authentic? Is Obama black enough?\u2019 it was I, El Rushbo, who decried that and asked that the Democrats in the media and the liberals stop looking at this plan on the basis only of the color of his skin and how dark was he and what was his parentage. It is I, early on, who stood up for Barack Obama and advised him on how to deal with this. But now the bloom\u2019s off the rose and we have learned that Obama, regardless of skin color; is just your average, ordinary, run-of-the-mill liberal politician who\u2019s doing his best to camouflage and mask what he believes and what his policies are. A few hours remain in Operation Chaos. Operatives who have not yet followed orders are hereby instructed to get in gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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