{"id":29911,"date":"2008-07-23T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:35:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:35:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:35:16","slug":"drive_bys_want_to_make_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/07\/23\/drive_bys_want_to_make_history\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Want to Make History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: The Drive Bys, ladies and gentlemen, are off-track. I just got a note from somebody and, right as the note began, it said that Obama somewhere said that he is on the Senate Banking Committee. He isn\u2019t on the Senate Banking Committee. We are way beyond Clintonesque with all of this. Anyway, folks, great to have you here. Three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.<\/line><\/a>I was watching television this morning in the midst of feverish and devoted show prep. I was watching Fox and they had a PR guy come on. It was just before 11:00. I forget this PR guy\u2019s name, but he was there as an expert on what\u2019s going on here with the media coverage of Obama and he said something that I think is pretty interesting. He did not deny that they are fellow travelers, the Drive Bys and Obama did not deny that they\u2019re in a tank ideologically, politically and all that, but he said there\u2019s something else going on here, too. He said these people are just excited as hell that history is being made here — and we\u2019ve had this referred to as such before as historic — and they, the Drive Bys, want to make history and they want to be able to say they were there and they want to be able to say that they helped. I think it\u2019s a great point that all of that devolves from this whole white guilt situation from the civil rights days of this country. I think it\u2019s a good point. It doesn\u2019t take anything else off the table. This guy, I wish I could remember his name. I should have written his name down, but I didn\u2019t. In addition to the ideological kinship they have — they are all Democrats, they are all liberals — they want to be a part of history — they want to make history, not just Obama to make history; they want to be able to say they did it. And as such this is why they are running around.<\/line><\/p>\n

Yesterday I had what I thought was a pretty good illustration of this, and it is this, that the Soviet leaders from Lenin and Stalin all the way up to Brezhnev and Gorbachev, they never got this kind of fawning press from Pravda and they owned it. I mean, they wrote their own press and they didn\u2019t get this kind of good coverage. The Beatles never got this. Princess Di never got this. Victor Davis Hanson has taken up this theme today at National Review Online in a little post on The Corner and he says they are acting like a bunch of adolescents. The Drive Bys have arrested development. They are just a bunch of teenagers here. The only thing they haven\u2019t done is throw their underwear and bras at the guy when he\u2019s up there on stage, yet. By the way, there is another Judas, and the Judas today is the editorial writer at the Washington Post. We had a Judas among the Obama Drive By disciples yesterday, Dan Balz. We\u2019ve got another one. They wrote an editorial today, a lead editorial that just rips Obama for getting it wrong about timelines in Iraq, wrong about Afghanistan being the central front in the war on terror. It\u2019s a pretty devastating piece.<\/p>\n

Now, I think something is going on here. The Drive Bys, especially the parents of the Drive Bys, the editorial writers and so forth, people on the op ed page, they realize that this is untenable. Did you see the second quarter profits, New York Times, down 82%? Eighty-two percent! Ladies and gentlemen, when you stop doing your job, people stop paying attention to you. I think a bunch of us pseudo-conservatives are still paying attention to the New York Times. Second quarter profit drops 82%, and you can\u2019t blame that on me because my profile in the New York Times Sunday Magazine was in July, which starts the third quarter. You can\u2019t lump me in with the New York Times failure. (interruption) Yeah, I should do another ad for them. That lasted until the NOW gang got a hold of it and they had to cancel the ad.<\/p>\n

Howard Kurtz has a piece today talking about McCain\u2019s gaffes and again wondering, ‘Are these gaffes related to age, a lot of people are very concerned here.\u2019 My friend sent me a note saying, ‘Has Howard Kurtz not listened to the sheer incoherence of Barack Obama? I mean, it\u2019s one thing for McCain to have some of these gaffes like saying Iraq when he meant Afghanistan and Iran when he meant Iraq or whatever. We all do that. But these sound bites, they\u2019re incoherent. Not only that, he\u2019s nothing but a con man. These things, these statements, he\u2019s all over the board with things, he can\u2019t remember who he lied to yesterday and so he keeps telling more and more lies, flip flops, what have you.\u2019 And I wrote back. I said, ‘You\u2019re missing the point. It\u2019s not about what Obama says. It\u2019s how he looks. It\u2019s his presence. It\u2019s the fact that he is alive and that he is walking among his disciples. They don\u2019t care what he\u2019s saying. Doesn\u2019t matter what he\u2019s saying. He\u2019s historic. His is a racial candidacy as far as the Drive Bys are concerned.\u2019 That\u2019s what the historic aspect is. They want history to be made, and the history is a black man being elected President and they want to say they did it. They don\u2019t want to be bystanders to see if he can pull it off on his own.<\/p>\n

So after that little exchange with my buddy, I came across this Alessandra Stanley story in the New York Times. She\u2019s a TV critic. This might make some of you people hurl out there. ‘It\u2019s not pro-Obama bias in the news media that\u2019s driving the effusion of coverage, it\u2019s the news: Mr. Obama\u2019s weeklong tour of war zones and foreign capitals is noteworthy because it is so unusual to see a presidential candidate act so presidential overseas. Mr. Obama looks supremely confident and at home talking to generals and heads of state. … When posing for an official photograph with a foreign leader, Mr. Obama often places his hand paternally on the other man\u2019s arm, subliminally signaling that though a visitor, he is the real host of the meeting. Touring ruins of the Citadel in Amman, Mr. Obama strode confidently with his jacket crooked over his shoulder in classic Kennedy style. … McCain aides haven\u2019t been nearly as creative on his behalf: their stagecraft has been notably unflattering to the candidate. While Mr. Obama was shown striding across military tarmacs and inspecting troops standing at attention, Mr. McCain on Monday was seen being driven around in a golf cart by former President George Bush in the resort town of Kennebunkport, Me.\u2019<\/p>\n

So my friends, it isn\u2019t what he\u2019s saying. We are the ones pointing out what he\u2019s saying. (interruption) I know it\u2019s an orgasm certainly. You don\u2019t have to tell me. It\u2019s not a news story. It is an orgasm. It is a replay when Clinton was out there on Catalina Island off the coast of San Diego and power crackling from his jeans, except that a guy wrote that one. Alessandra Stanley, a female. It\u2019s an orgasm. But the point is they are not reporting what he says. They don\u2019t care what he says. It doesn\u2019t matter what he says. It doesn\u2019t matter what he stands for. He\u2019s history. He represents something that will make the Drive Bys respect their country and respect themselves. So we\u2019re the ones, ladies and gentlemen, we\u2019re the ones who are reporting to you what Obama says. We are playing his own words to you and we are giving you deft analysis. It does matter what he\u2019s saying, those of us who care about policy and character of people. It certainly does matter, and we are doing again the job the Drive Bys should be doing and maybe at one time used to do.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This morning, right before 11:00 Fox News had a guest try to explain why the media\u2019s doing what they\u2019re doing, and he really made some great points. His name is Eric Dezenhall and he is CEO of Dezenhall Resources in Washington DC. We have two sound bites. The hostette and the infobabe Megyn Kelly said, ‘According to the numbers, 49% of the American people believe the press is trying to help Obama win this election. Fourteen percent think that they are trying to help McCain. Is that true?\u2019 <\/p>\n

DEZENHALL: Oh, I\u2019ve never seen anything like it. I\u2019ve been doing this for 25 years and I think what\u2019s really happening here is the media are motivated more than anything else right now by the sense that they are making history. It\u2019s more about them than it even is Obama, and everything that Obama does is framed in the context of being visionary, and I think that the desire to personally help make history, to say you were there when it happened, probably is even more of a motivator than political bias, which I do think is part of it. <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s an important point. He didn\u2019t throw the political bias, the ideological simpatico out the window, but it\u2019s an excellent point because these people, it almost is more about them than Obama. He is the vehicle for them to be able to say they made history. Not he made history, they did, because they got him elected. He continued with this. <\/p>\n

DEZENHALL: It\u2019s about narratives. In a Disney movie, the little blonde girl is not going to be the villain. She is going to save the day. And Obama really owns the Hollywood narrative right now. He is the one who has the more exciting story. It genuinely is a history-making event, regardless of what your political bias is. And that really is what I mean by the media\u2019s devotion to what the narrative is, what the exciting story is. <\/p>\n

RUSH: See, I think we\u2019ve been sold a bill of goods on how exciting this is. I\u2019m not arguing with the racial aspect of this being historic. Nobody can. But there\u2019s nothing new about this guy, nothing special about this guy other than that. This is a pure racial campaign. They\u2019re trying to make it anything but that there\u2019s nothing unique about him. He is a leftist. He is an avowed leftist. He runs around with leftists and Marxists. That\u2019s not new. There\u2019s nothing unique. There\u2019s nothing exciting about who Obama is. That\u2019s all been manufactured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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