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RUSH: I want to take you back to an Associated Press story, Thursday, December 27th of 2007, a little less than year ago. AP-Obama: ‘Barack Obama declared today that he is the only candidate who can bring true change in Washington, hoping to persuade Iowa voters to give him the first victory in the Democrat presidential race. Making his case against Hillary Clinton without naming her,\u2019 and this is the money part of the story, Obama said, ‘The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result.\u2019 So Obama starts his campaign in Iowa by telling people, (paraphrasing) ‘I\u2019m an outsider and I\u2019m not going to bring people into my administration who have already been in Washington, it would be foolish, that wouldn\u2019t change anything whatsoever,\u2019 and yet his first appointment is Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff. <\/p>\n

By the way, let me say something. I don\u2019t care who he picks as chief of staff. It doesn\u2019t matter to me, because nobody that he picked would surprise me. I\u2019m not arguing here with anybody about his pick, so I\u2019m not trying to turn public opinion against Obama because of his pick. We\u2019re just engaged here in pointing out a little hypocrisy. I love this notion that so many people were duped into thinking big change is coming, and there\u2019s no change coming whatsoever except we\u2019re going to move the country far more left. I\u2019ve been looking at Obama, he\u2019s got a new website up: Change.com. He\u2019s elaborating on what he\u2019s going to do on this website, and it\u2019s pretty much what we would expect if you expect him to move far left. And once again, this is important to me for the simple reason that so many people on our side have got these blinders on, thinking that we\u2019re going to get this great centrist government because economic circumstances are such that Obama will do all that he wants to do and all that, and the naivete after all of these years perplexes me. <\/p>\n

Okay, Rahm Emanuel. Who is he? Well, big-time enforcer for the Clinton administration. This guy is mean-spirited, he destroys people in his way just like Obama does. He is Obama. Obama gets away with being this great mellifluous, soft-spoken whippet, wispy, harmless little guy, almost messianic, while Emanuel here has this reputation of throwing his weight around and getting enemies out of the way no matter where they are. That\u2019s Obama as well. Obama has chosen his mirror image. Obama has chosen somebody to do the dirty work Obama doesn\u2019t wanna have his fingerprints on. Barack Obama, November 7th, 2008, this is ABC News, Brian Ross: ‘President-Elect Barack Obama\u2019s newly appointed chief of staff Rahm Emanuel served on the board of directors of Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at Freddie Mac and the board failed to spot red flags, according to government reports reviewed by ABCnews.com. According to a complaint letter filed by the SEC, Freddie Mac misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.\u2019 Emanuel was on the board. ‘He was not named in the complaint, but the entire board was later accused by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, OFHEO, of having failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So we have a mortgage crisis brought about precisely by Democrats running Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, forcing banks to make loans to people that had no prayer of paying them back, forcing banks through thug behavior from the Clinton administration, Janet Reno promising investigations if they didn\u2019t follow through on these new dictates. And right there in the center, this is entirely a Democrat scandal, and I say this not out of partisanship, I mean, folks, if they could have found a Republican to blame this on, that guy would be in jail today, frog-marched up before Henry Waxman\u2019s committee and then sent to jail. They couldn\u2019t find a Republican. This is Chris Dodd. This is Barney Frank. This is Jimmy Carter. This is Bill Clinton. This is Franklin Raines. This is Jim Johnson. And now Rahm Emanuel\u2019s in this, as member of the board, and he\u2019s now on Obama\u2019s team. And don\u2019t forget, Obama says, going into Iowa before the Hawkeye Cauci, ‘The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result.\u2019 He was telling people in Iowa, ‘I\u2019m not going to have the usual people up there, I\u2019m change, I\u2019m bringing new people in.\u2019 So far, the people he\u2019s talking to are not new. I\u2019ve heard of every one of them and most of them are Democrats. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s listen to the Drive-Bys describe Emanuel. As you listen to this montage we have of the Drive-Bys, keep in mind how they described Karl Rove. Karl Rove was the evil genius, he was manipulative, he engaged in criminal behavior. Karl Rove needed to be frog-marched out of the White House. Karl Rove is the epitome of evil. Here is the Drive-Bys\u2019 assessment of Rahm Emanuel.<\/p>\n

CHETRY: Rahm Emanuel, a Washington veteran known for sharp elbows. <\/p>\n

REID: A masterful politician with very sharp elbows.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Sharp political elbows.<\/p>\n

CARD: I hope he takes his partisan elbows and keeps them close by to his body. <\/p>\n

BROWNSTEIN: He has sharp political instincts and sharp elbows. <\/p>\n

BROWN: You mentioned sharp elbows. <\/p>\n

YELLIN: A reputation for sharp elbows. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And once again, the Drive-By Media in unison, deciding to agree on this descriptive phrase ‘sharp elbows.\u2019 Claire Shipman this morning on Good Morning America.<\/p>\n

SHIPMAN: Like all good characters, Emanuel\u2019s got quirks to spare and if you look closely you\u2019ll see he\u2019s missing the middle finger of his right hand. He sliced it off as a teen working at a fast food restaurant but instead of going to the hospital, he went swimming. The wound became so infected he almost died.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow, what a man, what a man! Claire Shipman, ‘This is how tough, this is how manly Rahm Emanuel is.\u2019 He cut off his middle finger in a fast food restaurant and went swimming. He almost died. That\u2019s how committed he is to — what? I don\u2019t know if he sued McDonald\u2019s or wherever else he was working. He salutes with the other hand, obviously. Here\u2019s David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen. Larry King Alive last night, the fill-in host was John King. David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen was asked, ‘What is the role of the chief of staff and what does it say about Obama that he picked Rahm Emanuel?\u2019<\/p>\n

GERGEN: I think it\u2019s an extremely interesting choice. I think — there\u2019s a couple of other things that I think are interesting about this. His close relationship with David Axelrod. And it\u2019s almost like a Karl Rove kind of position. They\u2019re such good friends that when, as you know, at a Jewish wedding, a long tradition is to have a ketubah, where the bride and the groom each sign and then two of their closest friends sign as witnesses. David Axelrod signed the ketubah at Rahm Emanuel\u2019s wedding. That demonstrates their closeness.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa, whoa, man, that means a lot, that is really interesting, David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen said so. That is really interesting. David Axelrod signed the ketubah at Emanuel\u2019s wedding. Are we a lucky country, or what, to have Axelrod and Emanuel so close. Here is Former special counsel to President Clinton on trade, Bill Daley of Chicago talking to Joe Scarbourgh, ‘Is Rahm Emanuel somebody who can reach across the aisle? Your thoughts on that.\u2019<\/p>\n

DALEY: I\u2019ve known Rahm for 20 years. There\u2019s no question he is extremely able, not only to reach against — across the aisle, but be somebody that can drive the agenda for President-Elect Obama and work with all factions that are involved in the issues. One of the most partisan, tough, smart people in Washington over the last 30 years was Jim Baker. Lots of people talked about Jim Baker as this partisan guy who ran the recount in Florida. Tough, smart, yes, he was, very partisan, very direct, but somebody that was able to reach out and be bipartisan and also show that there sometimes are issues that rise above partisanship. Rahm\u2019s given up a safe seat where he could be forever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He wanted to be speaker of the House, but Obama tricked him. He named him before he even asked him to accept it, and Emanuel knew he couldn\u2019t turn it down. It would not look good for Obama, so he may have a job he doesn\u2019t even want. Now, as far as this bipartisanship, I looked it up. Rahm Emanuel has a 98% voting record in the House of Representatives. This is just flat-out BS that he\u2019s bipartisan. I just laugh at this. There are so many people, there\u2019s a little schadenfreude building in me — so many people, by the way, this has to happen. This will happen. There are so many people who are going to be shocked, surprised, and disappointed at Barack Obama, people who supported him and people who elected him. There\u2019s no way around this. His support group is too varied and disparate. He\u2019s got Jew haters that support him and he\u2019s got a lot of Jews that voted for him. Something\u2019s gotta give there at some point. Either the Jew haters are going to hate him or the Jewish people who voted for him are going to be shocked, one of the two. They both cannot be made happy here once Obama gets going. <\/p>\n

Now, CNN has decided to talk about me, ladies and gentlemen, Campbell Brown introducing a story on right-wing rage. Notice no stories on post election stress syndrome. No, no, no, no, it\u2019s right-wing rage. She\u2019s on with Joe Johns, and she said, ‘We all saw the pictures on election night, people all over the world dancing in the streets but some Americans, particularly conservatives, very different feelings about President-Elect Obama. Many of them feeling really, really angry right now, and Joe Johns has been listening to what can only be called right-wing rage. Joe, tell us what these conservatives are saying.\u2019<\/p>\n

JOHNS: There is a certain amount of hand-wringing, and there are those who are already comparing this to the early nineties when Bill Clinton won. As everyone remembers, Republicans regrouped, and it wasn\u2019t long before Newt Gingrich and his conservative army swept to victory in the House. And guess who\u2019s already hammering away at the Democrats? Rush Limbaugh, blasting both Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama hours after the polls close. <\/p>\n

RUSH: He is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug. On the night of the Clinton election Rahm Emanuel was so angry at the president\u2019s enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, Rahm Emanuel grabbed a steak knife, and he began rattling off a list of betrayers. And as he listed their names he shouted, ‘Dead! Dead! Dead!\u2019 and he plunged the steak knife into the table after every name. This is not a bunch of people that are going to govern from the center. <\/p>\n

JOHNS: So if you were thinking the country is now unified, think again. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Where was the rage? I want to know, where was the rage? They set that bite up as right-wing rage. Where was the rage? I simply told a story about Rahm Emanuel that they will not tell. ‘If you\u2019re thinking the country is now unified, think again.\u2019 Look at the election returns!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, Rahm Emanuel used to tell people that he lost his middle finger while fighting with the Israeli Defense Forces. That was the old story. Now it is that he sliced it off working at a fast food joint and was so manly and so fearless, he went swimming — and almost died due to infection. Also, this is somewhat humorous, too. From Obama\u2019s own book, The Audacity of Hope. After paragraph after paragraph castigating the Republicans for being so damn partisan, we get this paragraph: <\/p>\n

‘Of course, there are those within the Democrat Party who tend towards similar zealotry [as the Republicans], but those who do have never come close to possessing the power of a Rove or a DeLay, the power to take over the party, fill it with loyalists, and enshrine some of their more radical ideas into law.\u2019 It just happened! (laughing) It just happened, folks. And it happened actually long before Obama came along. Obama is the stamp. He\u2019s the dotted ‘I\u2019; he\u2019s the crossed ‘T\u2019. I just have to laugh. So many people have been fooled! So many people have just been swamped by what has happened here. And I do. I eagerly anticipate the day where the lights of realization go on inside the dimwit skulls of so many of these people who unwittingly and for the stupidest of reasons, voted for Obama. Now, you think it\u2019s bad that I call Obama an Emanuel Chicago thugs. Let\u2019s go to CNBC Squawk Box this morning. Carl Quintanilla and Becky Quick are talking with CNN correspondent Steve Liesman and Mesirow chief financial economist Diane Swonk about the Obama transition.<\/p>\n

QUINTANILLA: The few people who have been named to his team — Emanuel, Podesta, Pete Rouse from Daschle\u2019s office — aren\u2019t exactly a post-partisan party. I mean this is hard-core Chicago politics from the Democratic side.<\/p>\n

LIESMAN: Why isn\u2019t Bill Ayers at the table?<\/p>\n

(crosstalk)<\/p>\n

QUICK: Remember what he said …<\/p>\n

LIESMAN: Why isn\u2019t Bill Ayers in the administration?<\/p>\n

QUINTANILLA: John McCain and Palin…<\/p>\n

LIESMAN: Why isn\u2019t Bill Ayers at the table?<\/p>\n

LIESMAN: Hey! Time-out. Time-out. No, I don\u2019t want to hear about Bill… All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Why isn\u2019t Bill Ayers….? He is. Bill Ayers is a silent advisor. Don\u2019t think he\u2019s not. So is the Reverend Wright. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I\u2019m going to go back and play an audio sound bite here. This is Campbell Brown introducing a story on ‘right-wing rage\u2019 last night on CNN talking to Joe Johns, the reporter. This is crucial here to understand how it is that the Democrats and the Drive-By Media distort things. ‘Dissent\u2019 when the Democrats are in power is rage. It is derangement, it is unbalanced. <\/p>\n

We all know that the real hatred, the real rage in this country for the last eight years (if not longer) has been the exclusive property of insane, lunatic fringe Democrats. As I so brilliantly asked on Wednesday of this week, ‘Where is that rage going to go?\u2019 It has to go someplace. It doesn\u2019t vanish. People who live their lives enraged and angry all the time need to be enraged and angry to feed off of it. People who are pessimistic have to be pessimistic all the time. They\u2019ve got to find something to be unhappy about. There are people like this. People who are happily miserable, the Democrat Party is full of them. And where in the world is that rage and hatred going to go? It may be tamed for the moment. But some of it\u2019s going to go right to Obama when he doesn\u2019t pull out of Iraq, when he doesn\u2019t close Club Gitmo, when he doesn\u2019t do some of the things they want. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s going to do some things that will satisfy him, though. I\u2019ve been looking at his Change.com website. Wait \u2019til you hear the community service he has planned for every damn one of us, so-called volunteer community service. But this notion that right-wing rage is now out there. There is no rage. I\u2019m not mad. I\u2019m laughing! I\u2019ve been laughing since Wednesday. What they call ‘rage\u2019 is nothing more than dissent. Now, remember, one of the ways they\u2019re going to go after talk radio is call it hate radio, rage. They just distort these things, and they call it dissent or disagreement, things that they are not. If you dissent from liberal prescriptions, ‘Why, you must be insane! You must be enraged. You must be hate-filled and so forth.\u2019 This is the Stalinist type of mentality that they have. So here\u2019s Campbell Brown introducing this piece with Joe Johns as the correspondent on right-wing rage. It contains a clip of me from earlier in the week, and I want you to listen to this and tell me: Where is the rage?<\/p>\n

JOHNS: There is a certain amount of hand-wringing, and there are those who are already comparing this to the early nineties when Bill Clinton won. As everyone remembers, Republicans regrouped, and it wasn\u2019t long before Newt Gingrich and his conservative army swept to victory in the House. And guess who\u2019s already hammering away at the Democrats? Rush Limbaugh, blasting both Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama, hours after the polls close.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: [H]e is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug. On the night of the Clinton election, Rahm Emanuel was so angry at the president\u2019s enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign; Rahm Emanuel grabbed a steak knife and he began rattling off a list of betrayers. As he listed their names, he shouted, ‘Dead! Dead! Dead!\u2019 and he plunged the steak knife into the table after every name. This is not a bunch of people that are going to govern from the center. <\/p>\n

JOHNS: Soooo, if you were thinking the country is now unified, think again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So where\u2019s the rage? If there\u2019s any rage in that story it\u2019s what you conjure up Rahm Emanuel doing: grabbing a steak knife and plunging it into the dinner table, and each time he plunges it he shouts ‘Dead!\u2019 and then mentions a betrayer\u2019s name. ‘Dead! Dead! Dead!\u2019 The rage in this story is Rahm Emanuel. There is no right-wing rage in this story. I\u2019m smiling now even though I\u2019m talking about it, but this is how they\u2019re going to be mischaracterizing and how they\u2019ve always done it, and have their willing accomplices in the Drive-By Media to help spread the myth. Here\u2019s more from Joe Johns on Obama and me from last night on CNN.<\/p>\n

JOHNS: Hours after Barack Obama was elected, Rush Limbaugh — known on his show as the Man Who Runs America — was back on the radio breathing fire, taking Obama and his now-named chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, to the woodshed.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: [H]e is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug.<\/p>\n

JOHNS: So if you were thinking the country is somehow unified, think again. There are still deep divisions. Just because the president-elect says he\u2019s going to listen to conservatives, they say, doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s going to govern from the middle.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: You can listen all day long and do nothing about it, right? There\u2019s no unity with Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what they left out of that was, Obama said, ‘I may not have got your vote. You may not have voted for me, but I\u2019m going to listen to you.\u2019 Yeah, Fairness Doctrine. You\u2019re going to listen to us while shutting us down? And that\u2019s what good old Joe Johns did not include in his reports. They\u2019re out ‘breathing fire\u2019 again, hear that? (laughing) Breathing fire. Anderson Cooper could not let this go. He also spoke to Joe Johns, and says, ‘So much for any honeymoon there for Barack Obama.\u2019<\/p>\n

JOHNS: It\u2019s sort of all over the place on Obama. You heard Rush Limbaugh, that\u2019s one view; and the RNC chimed in as well. David Keene, the guy in the piece from the American Conservative Union, makes a point that, hey, Barack Obama was elected the very same way Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. You gotta give a guy a chance, before you go after him, at least — and when he does something you disagree with, you go after him then. The point is, Rahm Emanuel is one of the things conservatives would go after Barack Obama about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but why, Joe? There\u2019s a reason for it. We\u2019re not just going after the guy to go after the guy. You guys cut it under the rug. You\u2019re the guys that did not tell anybody about Obama. We know who Obama is. We know who is associates are; we know who his alliances are with, and so forth. You guys didn\u2019t. We\u2019re not trying to… Maybe we are. Maybe we are trying to define Obama since you guys, Joe, didn\u2019t. And now we got Brokaw and Charlie Rose saying, ‘I don\u2019t know anything about him.\u2019 That\u2019s the last sound bite in the list. Let\u2019s play that again. There\u2019s a new tune-in factor, so some of you people may not have heard this. This is a great example of Drive-Bys covering their rear ends now, folks, because if Obama goes way off the deep end on the left, they don\u2019t want to get any blame for it and so… This is illustrative of the kind of thing I\u2019m talking about here with Joe Johns. Of course we\u2019re going to try to define Obama for people, so they have some idea what\u2019s coming. We live in the United States of America; it\u2019s going to be governed by a bunch of far leftists, extremists, and radicals. It\u2019s not like he picked Lieberman as chief of staff, by the way, could have reached across the aisle found a Democrat, found Lieberman, could have made him secretary of defense. He\u2019s thinking of Chuck Hagel, for that, by the way. Chuck Hagel\u2019s name is on the list. Anyway, here\u2019s Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose from one week ago on Charlie Rose\u2019s show on PBS.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t know what Barack Obama\u2019s worldview is.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: No, I don\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t know how he really sees where China is.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: We don\u2019t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Yeah, it\u2019s an interesting question.<\/p>\n

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Two of them! I don\u2019t know what books he\u2019s read.<\/p>\n

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?<\/p>\n

BROKAW: There\u2019s a lot about him we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?\u2019 (laughing) Well, Jeremiah Wright. We know a lot about them, and so did these guys. They knew about it all along. And how about that stuff yesterday we had from the Newsweek guys? Evan Thomas and Jon Meacham? That stuff yesterday is priceless. Cookie, you gotta grab that stuff, people need to hear that again, because here\u2019s all this right-wing rage being aimed at people like me and so forth, and the Drive-Bys are trying to act like we\u2019re trying to take Obama down before he has even been inaugurated. We\u2019re not trying to take anybody down here. We\u2019re just trying to define him for people since you people like Joe Johns and others refused to do so. Here. One more bite before we go to the break, also Anderson Cooper 180 last night. He spoke to former Clinton advisor David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen, and they had this exchange. They were talking about me.<\/p>\n

COOPER: Does Obama need to worry about what conservatives like Rush Limbaugh are saying about Rahm Emanuel right now?<\/p>\n

GERGEN: Not very much. I think he\u2019s going to get a good honeymoon from Republicans, unlike the situation that faced George W. Bush and very unlike what faced Bill Clinton. Neither man had a honeymoon. But in this case, you know, with the first African-American going to the White House, this deep reservoir of support from the country. Republicans know it would be suicidal to start attacking him from day one on — on an all-fronts basis.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think it would be suicidal, but we\u2019re not ‘attacking him on an all-fronts basis.\u2019 And, by the way, Mr. Gergen, if I may just make this clear: Barack Obama is my president of the United States. He\u2019s not black. He\u2019s not white. He\u2019s not Asian American. He is not Mexican. He\u2019s not Chavez\u2019s brother. He is not Islamic. He is my president of the United States. It is his ideas I am terrifically, tremendously worried about. I couldn\u2019t care less where he was born. I couldn\u2019t care less what his name is. I couldn\u2019t care less how old he is. I couldn\u2019t care less about the color of his skin. I couldn\u2019t care less about his family. I don\u2019t care where he lives. I don\u2019t care where he plays basketball. I don\u2019t care about any of that. I don\u2019t see Americans the way you do, Mr. Gergen. I don\u2019t see groups of people say, ‘Oh, there\u2019s the women and there are the blacks and there are the Hispanics and there are the poor, and there is the homeless.\u2019 I see Americans. I see human beings. He\u2019s a human being, and now he\u2019s president of the United States. He is attempting to consolidate the most radical, left-wing policy makers and administration in my lifetime. I am going to oppose his ideas. I\u2019m not going to wait until you people in the Drive-By give your approval as to when this can happen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, a little side note here to David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen of CNN, you better get on the phone and tell some of these left-wing kooks that it\u2019s too soon to criticize Obama. Some of these people out there like the Daily Kos and the Democrat Underground and even that nut cake rabbi up there, Michael Lerner, remember the Politics of Meaning that Hillary glommed onto? They are livid, Mr. Gergen, about the choice of Rahm Emanuel. Now, you better get on the phone tonight or better get on CNN and say, ‘It\u2019s too soon for the left to be criticizing Obama over this as well.\u2019 By the way, we\u2019re digging out of our archives to remind you, Mrs. Clinton literally screeching, this is back in the days when she thought she was going to be president, and she sounds like your first and second ex-wives, yelling and screaming, redefining patriotism. Cookie is digging it out of the archives even as we speak. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to the first hour, not going to play the sound bites, but CNN did a whole story last night on right-wing rage aimed at me for my criticism of Emanuel as choice. There was no rage in the sound bite they played, but this is what the left does. Any dissent is called hate, is called rage. This is how they attempt to discredit it. But let\u2019s remember Mrs. Clinton. A couple years ago she got all mad and upset because she was ripping Bush every day and people were saying it sounded a little bit unseemly, and this was her reaction.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: (screeching) I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you\u2019re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, ‘WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So the Hillary definition of patriotism is standing up and screeching and shouting your disagreement with the administration. I think I\u2019m a new patriot here, according to Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party, I am exhibiting the new patriotism that they have defined. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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