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RUSH: When I look at some of this post-debate analysis and when I look at some of these idiots that these focus group people find to play with their little gadgets and meters during the debate, you know what I think? I think there\u2019s so much psychology in this. I think people go in — and this would be true for some of the post-debate media analysts as well — and they think Obama is going to win so he won the debate. The two just naturally flow. ‘Well, I think Obama\u2019s going to win. Yes, he won the debate.\u2019 I think that mind-set is messing with some people\u2019s objectivity. So I think Obama is being judged by where he is in the polls today. I don\u2019t think people want to say McCain did something a little better than his opponent when he\u2019s behind in the polls, especially if you\u2019re a pundit analyst and so forth.<\/p>\n

Now, to prove my point, I would give anything to have a focus group being taken into the little room before the debate starts and tell them, ‘McCain is up by ten points. Okay, focus group, you are real Americans. You\u2019re the undecided. You\u2019re the ones on whom this election is going to hinge, and the results as we have them now, according to the latest polling data. It\u2019s McCain 51, Obama 41, and we\u2019re going to watch the debate. You tell us what you think.\u2019 I\u2019d love to know if the results would be, ‘Oh, McCain, he cleaned up. He kicked butt this afternoon, kicked butt tonight. He\u2019s up by ten!\u2019 I wonder. I think that this is a factor in a whole lot of people\u2019s analysis of this. All right, this is Hattie in Lynnwood, Pennsylvania. Hi, Hattie. Nice to have you on the program. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hatti, where is Lynnwood? Is it in western Pennsylvania or eastern, or central?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s eastern, about 45 minutes south of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so you\u2019re not in the racist part of the state, then?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just wanted to establish that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct. (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just started listening to you in the summertime, and it was a result of hearing your name mentioned on television on Fox News. And I saw you for the first time on the air. And then people have mentioned about you and said things about you, so that got me interested in your program. I do appreciate you and how informative you are, and I worked for one of the top six banks that are out there now, and I was listening last night, and I was one of the undecideds. And they tried to make us believe that, you know, ‘you are where you are now,\u2019 and the undecideds, they made us seem like we were useless, going nowhere, and if we went anywhere, it\u2019s probably going to go to Obama\u2019s side. But…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. Who made you feel that way?<\/p>\n

CALLER: On Fox News a couple of times when some of the people talked. The undecideds were the ones that they were weighing everything on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: After the debate?<\/p>\n

CALLER: After the debate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Their analysis after the debate?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So they started telling you…? I just want to understand how you saw this. That you\u2019re undecided, you\u2019re watching it as an undecided voter.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re talking to you as an undecided voter telling you, ‘Well, there\u2019s no question here, McCain didn\u2019t pull it off. This is Obama\u2019s night\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And see, the thing is, I didn\u2019t vote in the primaries at all because I was just disgusted with the whole mess, you know, between Republicans and Democrats. At that time, you know, I just said, ‘I\u2019m waiting for this bus for a long time.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Pennsylvania primary was only Democrats. It was Obama-Hillary.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. Well, a long time before McCain finally came out at the end. But the thing is, I listened to the Democrats, and that I went on and on like an old story, like an old lady going down the pike, so to speak. And the thing is the taxes. When I worked for the bank, and I just recently retired two years ago, the thing was, when anything good went along the pike, so to speak, we got rewarded with it. And when things weren\u2019t going so well, we also did not get rewarded. And there were incentives in the company. When the bank was doing well, things were going well. But every time you turned around, check would get smaller with taxes, or the bank would have to up for the insurance. Even though they paid a lot of it, they\u2019d have to up, you\u2019d have to pay more, and the thing with taxes, that\u2019s the thing that got me. When McCain would talk about the taxes, even though he doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019s real forceful sometimes, I just listened to him like my grandpop when he was in his seventies and all. He was older, filled with a lot of wisdom.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, McCain was great on taxes last night. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, he was!<\/p>\n

RUSH: He said, ‘Why would you want to raise taxes on anybody right now?\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right, he should not. My mother went through the Depression, and she\u2019s the one who was also talking to me behind the — \u2019cause I told her I wasn\u2019t going to vote. She said, ‘You gotta vote. I went through the Depression. I was only ten years old,\u2019 and my father-in-law, he ended up losing a job, and then he had to work in gardens and whatever like that, and rent all many, many years before he could even own a house again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it was the taxes and McCain that forced you to decide last night?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, he did, because I kept looking at him. And the other one, he\u2019s good at delivery. He\u2019s good at speaking. He gets an A+ in school for standing up before groups and delivering very well. But it\u2019s the same old routine.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, he didn\u2019t say anything. Now, let me —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me guide you here. You\u2019re watching the debate —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — all of a sudden when the tax issue comes up, lights go off, ‘Okay, McCain\u2019s my guy,\u2019 then you turn to the Fox All-Stars afterwards, and they\u2019re trying to tell you, ‘What you saw, you didn\u2019t see.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you think about, ‘Oh, maybe I\u2019m wrong here. I\u2019m going to change my mind back to undecided\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I was thinking that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, well, then what was it that kept you decided for McCain after watching the Fox All-Stars?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because throughout my years of — I started out in a project when I was a young child. I was one of five, and my father worked two full time and two part-time jobs when he came out of the Navy, and I\u2019m so proud that he did serve our country, and he saw a lot of things —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so you just reflected on your own life, and even after your decision that you made last night was — you got a lot soft on it watching the post-debate analysis, you finally realized that you were right and you trusted your own instincts. That\u2019s so, so crucial. I\u2019m glad you did that. I wish more people would trust their instincts instead of trying to imagine what everybody else is thinking and agree with them, especially when you don\u2019t know, and especially… You know, in the old days when I was growing up watching post-debate analysis, my dad, we would watch anything political and here would come the Drive-Bys analyzing it. My dad particularly despised Sander Vanocur who was both NBC and ABC. My dad got close to throwing things at the television, and he would shake his finger at my brother and I. <\/p>\n

‘Boys, you are going to be slaves someday if we don\u2019t get a handle on these people in the media and the Democrat Party. You\u2019re going to be slaves,\u2019 and my brother and I would laugh at him. Slaves? I mean, here we were. We had just gotten a new car, I\u2019m angling for a TV set in the room, and he\u2019s telling me we\u2019re going to be slaves! But the point is, we would watch all this political stuff, and here would come the Drive-Bys telling us what we saw, and they tell us what we saw we didn\u2019t see — and they\u2019re always ripping Republicans and always raising up Democrats. My dad said, ‘They ought to be shut down. They ought to be shut down. People ought to not have to put up with what these people have to say after the debate. We saw it. We can make up our own minds.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I said, ‘Dad, it\u2019s the ‘off\u2019 switch.\u2019 You know, but he loved getting mad at \u2019em. I would suggest, folks, from now on out, whenever there\u2019s anything like this (and there aren\u2019t any more debates) don\u2019t watch this stuff. Trust your own instincts. You know what you saw last night. You know what you saw, but Fox is your station in many of your cases, you tune it on and you\u2019ve got a 180. You got somebody telling you the exact opposite; you start questioning yourself. Question them! Question them. Why is it we anoint expert status to these people, especially when they haven\u2019t demonstrated any expertise in a long, long time. It\u2019s not just at Fox. It\u2019s all these pundits… See, everybody\u2019s trying to be different. By the way, when you work for two places — when you work for the New York Times and Pinch Sulzberger and you work for Fox News — you\u2019ve got a little balancing act there (ah, ah, ah, ah!) in terms of your on-TV post-debate analysis, if you want to hold onto your New York Times column. <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t serve two masters. And we here at the EIB Network, we serve one master, me; and I serve you; and you serve yourselves; and in the process, we make progress. If I could have one debate wish, it would be that nobody would watch this post-debate coverage from ‘the spin room.\u2019 It\u2019s all so damn predictable! ‘Okay, now we\u2019re going to go to our expert panel that watch and we\u2019re going to bluh, bluh, bluh, bluh, bluh. After that we\u2019re going to do the expert panel then we\u2019re going to go to the spin room where another one of our brilliant correspondents is going to talk to representatives from both campaigns,\u2019 and we know we\u2019re going to get spun with lies like, ‘Well, I thought McCain sucked,\u2019 said the Obama people, and the McCain people with, ‘My, Obama is an honorable guy, but we thought our guy really did well tonight,\u2019 blah, blah.<\/p>\n

And then we go to the host of the next show who is in the same room telling us the same stuff that happened, and then we\u2019re going to go to some other correspondent somewhere else and we\u2019re going to — and it\u2019s all formula. Every one of these people (I\u2019ve been there, folks; I\u2019ve done it) when you are on one of those shows, the pressure, or the desire is to come up with something nobody else is going to say, to be unique, to stand out. Of course, if you happen to be a conservative elitist media person, one of the greatest ways to stand out is to rip your own party, rip your own candidate, rip your own ideology, and then the Drive-Bys (the majority in town) notice you and so forth. But there\u2019s a lot of pressure to be unique — and look at what that pressure brings gives us! It gives us sameness! <\/p>\n

The pressure to be unique gives us 35 journalists all using the word ‘gravitas\u2019 to describe the selection of Cheney as Bush\u2019s VP. All this quest, all this action for individuality results in sameness. If you thought last night Obama was masterful, that\u2019s fine. I didn\u2019t. Before I watched other people\u2019s reactions, who are supposedly much smarter than I am, I had totally different thoughts than they did. But as I say, I looked at Obama, and I thought he was stumbling around. I thought he was defensive. I thought he was getting a little frustrated. When the camera is on him when he\u2019s not speaking, he\u2019s kind of doing an Algore. He\u2019s doing everything but sighing and shaking his head. ‘No, no, no, no, no.\u2019 He starts writing down furiously notes that he wants to make the next time he speaks. I thought McCain, when he was on camera not speaking, was awesome! He was looking at Obama with total disbelief for some of the things he was saying and couldn\u2019t wait to get back in there to correct him. I thought it was McCain\u2019s best night of his political career, and I know that I am not wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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