{"id":30319,"date":"2008-09-04T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:25:07","slug":"pbs_drive_bys_discuss_your_host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/09\/04\/pbs_drive_bys_discuss_your_host\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Drive-Bys Discuss Your Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: On PBS coverage of the Republican National Convention, speechwriter and historian Richard Norton Smith had this to say about the Sarah Palin speech.<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: This will be a huge hit among Rush Limbaugh Republicans. It will be fascinating to know if this plays as well among particularly independent voters out there who are watching this convention, to find out not only what this party is against &#8212; we heard a lot about that tonight &#8212; but what they\u2019re for.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: David Brooks of the New York Times, who earlier this week opened a column in the New York Times by declaring that I am not an idiot, then had this to say in response to that comment, a question from Jim Lehrer. &#8216;Do you think that they\u2019ll have some impact on people who were wavering one way or another?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125116.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignright\"\/>BROOKS: I didn\u2019t think this was a Rush Limbaugh speech at all. One of the great lines I thought she had was being a mayor of this town is like being a community organizer with responsibilities. That\u2019s not the Rush Limbaugh type of humor. It\u2019s a much more personal &#8216;I\u2019m just regular folks\u2019 kind of humor than the biting, belittling Rush Limbaugh type of humor. There were no social issues as far as I could tell, there\u2019s no character &#8212; or no cultural war issues. She was tough and partisan in a political sense, but I didn\u2019t think she was tough in a culture sense the way Limbaugh is.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Biting, belittling humor from the New York Times conservative columnist, David Brooks. My humor is biting and belittling. I\u2019m not so sure he\u2019s right about there\u2019s no culture war. I think the culture war is probably back. I think because of her speech last night there is a vestige of the culture war that has been revived here. Richard Norton Smith said the question is going to be, &#8216;Will this speech appeal just beyond the Republican base?\u2019 Last night, Charles Krauthammer said, &#8216;This is going to go way beyond the base. Her appeal is way beyond the base.\u2019 Sarah Palin is Sarah Palin, she\u2019s who she is and she\u2019s great, she\u2019s unique because we don\u2019t see a woman like her in politics, but we see Sarah Palin\u2019s all over the country. There are Sarah Palins in every neighborhood and in every town in this country with their families and taking care of the kids and so forth, and they\u2019re not rock stars, and they\u2019re alternately called soccer moms, hockey moms or whatever. But I mean she\u2019s an ordinary woman who\u2019s done extraordinary things, she, I think, relates to all kinds of American women and mothers, and inspires them, too. I don\u2019t think the Democrats still, they know they\u2019ve been hit, they know they\u2019ve got a lot to fear today, but I still don\u2019t think they quite understand just how hard they have been hit. Evidence for that is they don\u2019t know how to deal with this. <\/p>\n<p>Their traditional way of dealing with people like Sarah Palin is destroy them, clear the playing field with them. They\u2019ve tried that, and she fights back. They can\u2019t destroy people in the arena of ideas because they don\u2019t want to talk about ideas. I think the next thing they\u2019re going to rely on is what Jonathan Alter mentioned and that is the press is going to try to just berate her and belittle her and ask her all kinds of esoteric questions: Who is the third Marine captain of the 4th Batallion of the All-American Amazon Cavalry Battalion in Zirkistan? You know, stupid little questions like that. Do you know what the Saharan subcontinent or the African subcontinent or the Indian subcontinent is? These guys are going to try all these things, and they\u2019re going to be stunned at how much she knows and how much her experience is translated into knowledge. Look, this is the best way to say it. You put a bag of manure on the ground, and the Democrats will eventually find it and step in it. (interruption) Sarah Palin? That\u2019s a good question. I wonder if she knows how many states there are. Obama thinks there\u2019s 57 or 58, but he hasn\u2019t been to all of them. He might be confusing his Muslim upbringing because there are 57 something or others, Alaska will make 59. You know, so we\u2019ll keep a sharp eye. I think she\u2019ll be able to identify all 58 or 59 states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: On PBS coverage of the Republican National Convention, speechwriter and historian Richard Norton Smith had this to say about the Sarah Palin speech. SMITH: This will be a huge hit among Rush Limbaugh Republicans. 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