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RUSH: Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, I asked for Joe Biden. I pleaded with The Messiah, the Lord Barack Obama the Most Merciful, to give me Joe Biden. And he came through in a botched text message announcement, supposed to come at 3 a.m. I don\u2019t know where to start. I do not know where to start today, folks. I really don\u2019t. Pelosi on Meet the Press said the Catholic Church is unsure when life begins. You can\u2019t even categorize this, how stupid it is. There\u2019s not an English word made to describe the lack of energy in the brain of Nancy Pelosi. ‘Stupid\u2019 doesn\u2019t cut it. ‘Silly\u2019 doesn\u2019t cut it. She doesn\u2019t know that natural gas is a fossil fuel. The Democrats are trying to put out fires between the Obamas and the Clintons. Bill is all upset over his assigned speech topic. He wants to talk about his great record, his great economy and contrast that with Bush\u2019s, and they want him to talk about something else. After picking Biden at three in the morning — and, by the way, these text message people did not get their messages first. The media found out about it about 40 minutes before the text message went out. But what kind of thinking is it to make this announcement at three o\u2019clock in the morning? I mean, I know it\u2019s supposed to be, ‘I\u2019m ready at 3 a.m. I\u2019m ready to make a decision at 3 a.m.\u2019 I mean, that\u2019s what this is, but that\u2019s defensive. That was silly. It was like you\u2019re trying to hide the pick. <\/p>\n

Then CNN went out there and breathlessly did a poll Saturday and Sunday after Biden had been announced, and guess what? Obama lost ground. He and McCain now tied 47-47 in a CNN poll. We learn from none other than the New York Times that Biden\u2019s son is a lobbyist and is involved in business dealings overseen by his father, Joe, in terms of passing legislation or authoring and supporting legislation favorable to his kid. On Saturday morning we had a story in the New York Times — I have to laugh at this, too — on Saturday morning we had a story from the New York Times about how, damn it, every year we hear politicians say that we\u2019re going to get the big money out of politics, get the special interests out of it, and then they talked about how much money was going to be spent just at Invesco Field at Mile High on Thursday night for Obama\u2019s big acceptance speech and how all the corporate suites are going for millions of dollars and Obama is going to be up there rubbing elbows before and after, and I got to thinking, how does this happen? It is part of a media template that every year we\u2019re going to get rid of Big Money and that every year we\u2019re going to get rid of the special interests, and we never do. It\u2019s never, ever going to happen, either party. Money is the mother\u2019s milk of politics. It just flabbergasts me to see the same old wizards of smart in the Drive-By Media continue to report every four years something that\u2019s never going to change and then write complaining. This story was sort of complaining about Obama and there\u2019s nothing new here in terms of change. <\/p>\n

And, of course, with the selection of Biden, Biden\u2019s been in the Senate longer than McCain\u2019s been in the Senate. Change? We all know what this pick was about. This pick is about two things. Well, it\u2019s actually about three. It\u2019s about the failed intern trip to Europe. It\u2019s about the fact that Obama demonstrated he has no clue on foreign policy, and they need to give him some substance, some gravitas on foreign policy, so they\u2019ve done this with Biden. How do you pick a guy who didn\u2019t get 1% in Iowa in two different presidential runs? And how do you say it\u2019s a good pick, and how do you not pick Mrs. Clinton, who got all those votes, and could certainly shore up areas that Obama is weak? Well, we know why they didn\u2019t pick the Clintons. I thought for sure when I asked them to give me Biden that they\u2019d see that as a sign, ‘Don\u2019t do it, don\u2019t do it, Limbaugh is prepared, don\u2019t do it,\u2019 but they came through. I don\u2019t know if you saw their speech on Saturday afternoon, their coming-out party where Obama introduced Biden as the next president and Biden started making fun of his wife\u2019s education and then said he was just joking. They used the term Scranton, Pennsylvania, five times, between them. Do you see that? You know why? <\/p>\n

Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He hadn\u2019t lived in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 55 years, but if you go back to the Democrat primaries because of Operation Chaos, Obama lost Pennsylvania by ten points with six weeks to campaign there with no major primary. He loses it by ten points and Scranton is typical of the areas in Pennsylvania that Obama lost, so they think that Biden being from Pennsylvania, from Scranton, is going to somehow get the Pennsylvania vote. This is a stretch and it\u2019s a reach. Folks, it\u2019s breathtaking here. Tim Kaine said today, I think this morning on Fox, get out your maps. Tim Kaine, The Eyebrow, governor of Virginia said that, you know, Delaware borders Virginia, and that will help Obama with the Virginia vote. Well, it\u2019s nowhere near Virginia. It borders New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Maryland. It\u2019s part of Delmarva Peninsula, but it doesn\u2019t border Virginia, and the governor of Virginia said it did. Then we\u2019ve got Ben Affleck. Now, Ben Affleck\u2019s going to the convention along with a lot of other celebrities, and his PR guy said, (paraphrasing) ‘Hey, you know, I know celebrities showing up at these things, it\u2019s kind of a strange thing, really is, but the fact is it\u2019s not our fault that Ben Affleck is more well read and 98% smarter on foreign policy and domestic issues than the rest of us.\u2019 I read that, and I said, ‘Don\u2019t you understand that\u2019s the problem? Affleck is a dunce, and he\u2019s 98% smarter than the rest of you people in the Democrat Party on this, and you\u2019re looking at this as a crowning achievement.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Then Madonna, with her, ‘Look at me, I\u2019m a new whore at age 50 tour,\u2019 comes out and compares McCain to Hitler and Obama to Gandhi, and the McCain camp\u2019s right in there fighting back. And then Ted Kennedy is going to show up tonight. He\u2019s in Denver. They\u2019re going to have a big video. This night — tonight — is going to be big. They\u2019re going to have Michelle (My Belle) and I\u2019m wondering — no, I\u2019m not going to mention this. That would be totally sexist to mention this. I\u2019m just not going to do it. Is she pregnant? She\u2019s wearing stuff that makes her look pregnant. I\u2019m just wondering if she\u2019s going to announce it tonight in her speech at the Democrat convention. It\u2019s just a wild guess, ladies and gentlemen. And then, we all remember that the Senate, the House government congressional hearings have been looking into baseball and steroids. The reason is that they\u2019re unnatural, that they\u2019re cheating, all these athletes using steroids to give themselves an unfair advantage over the non-cheaters. Why are Joe Biden\u2019s hair plugs any different? Joe Biden now has an unfair advantage in the game of politics with hair that is not where God intended it to be. It\u2019s just so unfair to Dick Cheney, for example. It\u2019s all the more reason for McCain to rise above all this and pick a vice president with lots of hair. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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