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HEMMER: Hillary Clinton losing support from a longtime family nemesis. For months now, Rush Limbaugh urged listeners to cross the party lines in open primary states and vote for Hillary Clinton during an effort called Operation Chaos. Well, that move aimed at keeping the nomination fight alive and to — in Rush Limbaugh\u2019s words — bruise up Barack Obama a bit. Obama\u2019s campaign now blaming Limbaugh for Clinton\u2019s narrow primary victory in Indiana on Tuesday. What does he have to say for that? Rush Limbaugh on the phone now in Florida. Good morning, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bill, how are you? It\u2019s great to follow those little crumb crunchers. Thanks.<\/p>\n

ANCHORS: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks for the lead-in.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: You call \u2019em crumb crunchers? Cute. Listen, this is the first time we\u2019ve had you on television to talk about this reaction from the Obama campaign. What are you saying about this, Rush?<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: You know, two days after the Pennsylvania primary when I think Operation Chaos was indeed a major factor, I advised the Obama campaign, ‘Look, if you guys want to shut this down, all you have to do is acknowledge it and simply say that a number of Mrs. Clinton\u2019s votes are tainted because they come from people who actually have no intention of voting for her in November,\u2019 and they didn\u2019t take that advice then. They coulda shut it down. As the commander-in-chief, Bill, I\u2019ve told everybody in advance what we\u2019re going to do and how they can stop it, and they haven\u2019t been able to. And finally the Obama campaign did come out and say, ‘Hey, this operation is responsible for seven bumps, seven points that Hillary got, and that pretty much tainted some of her victory. It was very close.\u2019 So, it\u2019s actually a very smart political move on the part of the Obama campaign.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: You know, Rush, a lot of your listeners have called in — and we have heard them say — that this was an effort by you to help Hillary Clinton, and they — they — they — Well, they were opposed to that because they thought this was helping her. And you said all along that no, this is counterintuitive. But yesterday you said support Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I\u2019ve gotten up today and I\u2019ve been doing my Show Prep here. I\u2019m amazed at the number of Drive-By Media outlets who totally missed what I said yesterday. Operation Chaos is not over. The whole purpose of Operation Chaos was not to get either of these two particularly nominated. It was to create the chaos and get Obama bloodied up. Now, remember, when this started, it was right before Texas, Ohio, Mississippi. The McCain campaign, Republican Party, made it clear they weren\u2019t going to be critical of Obama — and he was a messiah at that point. He was saying nothing better than anybody else has ever said nothing in my life. People were fainting. I said, ‘This guy\u2019s going to have to be bloodied up politically, and who better to do it than the Clintons?\u2019 And she couldn\u2019t do it if she weren\u2019t in the race. So the point was to keep her in just to keep the Democrat Party in chaos, not to get her the nomination. I mean, he was the fait accompli nominee way back then anyway. So everybody\u2019s missing it. I\u2019ve been as open about this for months as I can be, and the reluctance of people in the media to understand it is striking to me and is a great lesson to me on just how much their agenda drives reporting rather than facts.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: You know, Rush, you said something yesterday I think that was very interesting. I\u2019ll just take your words here. ‘The Republican Party doesn\u2019t have the guts to do Operation Chaos,\u2019 you say, and Senator McCain, ‘will not be critical of Obama because they\u2019re afraid of racial charges.\u2019 Explain that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. Well, Mark McKinnon — who is a friend of mine, I\u2019ve met him a couple times — actually said a couple months ago that if the McCain campaign wants to produce ads critical of Obama along the lines of Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers or whatever, that he\u2019s going to quit the campaign. The Republican Party is — I guess understandably — scared to death of being charged with racism, and McCain is obsessed with running this ‘honorable campaign\u2019 filled with integrity; not talking about these kind of things. And if they do that, they\u2019re going to lose 49 states. You know, political campaigns are what they are; liberals are who they are; and while Obama may try to stay above the fray, his team is going to be out there attacking. I don\u2019t think Senator McCain has any idea what\u2019s going to hit him in this general campaign, so yeah.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: You know, before we get to that point, what do you think Hillary Clinton does now? I mean, what\u2019s your theory about yesterday coming out and saying, ‘I\u2019m going to stay in this race until there is a nominee\u2019?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t have a whole lot of time here. I mean, you don\u2019t. Let me make this as brief as possible. <\/p>\n

HEMMER: Sure.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Hillary Clinton has spent the last two and a half decades of her life for this moment. Everything that she\u2019s done, everything she\u2019s put up with is for this moment. She controls the rules and bylaws committee that meets on May 31st to decide Florida and Michigan; and if she\u2019s smart, she\u2019ll say, ‘The Democrat Party has engaged in the greatest disenfranchisement of voters since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.\u2019 If she\u2019s smart, she will say that the only way Barack Obama can get the Democrat Party nomination is if the Democrats do not count all the votes — and she can extend this for as long as she wants, and I think she should, if she really wants it. Ted Kennedy went to the \u201980 convention down 700 delegates. You know, the media wants this over with because they want a new story line. They want a new action line. They\u2019re bored. But I think she should stay in it \u2019cause this is everything in her life. This is what she\u2019s lived for.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: Rush Limbaugh, thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. Thanks. It\u2019s always a pleasure to be with you guys, even after following the young kids.<\/p>\n

ANCHORS: (laughter)<\/p>\n

HEMMER: Crumb crunchers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Future anchors. They all looked like they wanted your jobs, you guys.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: And someday, they\u2019ll get them! See you, Rush, on the radio later.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks much.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: Okay.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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