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RUSH: Greg in Marana, Arizona, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Tribal dittos, Mr. Big.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The reason I was calling up, my comment is when I was watching the weekend news shows and they were interviewing the Republicans, they all talked about how Rahm Emanuel had sharpened elbows and they hoped he would keep them tucked in. Well, why isn\u2019t somebody on our side develop the testicular fortitude to sharpen their elbows and get in there and mix it up with him?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve been getting this question for 15 years. I don\u2019t know why our side doesn\u2019t do this stuff. I\u2019m watching our side disintegrate right in front of our very eyes. I\u2019m watching a bunch of the smartest people in our room, supposedly, pointy headed intellectual advocates who got what they wanted in this election telling us that Reaganism is over; conservatism is over, all these things. Why they don\u2019t get in there and mix it up? Your guess is as good as mine. I think part of it is they live in Washington and part of it is they want the media approval. Part of it is they\u2019re afraid of being called angry and enraged partisans and this sort of stuff. Who the hell knows?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Between now and the inauguration, he\u2019s probably honing his elbows with a serrated edge just to inflict more damage. We need to get real and be ready.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, here\u2019s the things that Republicans would tell you. See, the difference is that when Tom DeLay has sharp elbows they call him The Hammer and they try to get him indicted and thrown out of Washington and put in jail. When they describe Rahm Emanuel as having sharp elbows, they do it admiringly, and they think what a great guy Rahm is, in there fighting for what he believes. I mean, that\u2019s what they\u2019re afraid of. None of them want to be categorized and characterized as DeLay was. <\/p>\n

Karen in Humble, Texas. I\u2019m glad you called. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Well, my question is what do you think is going to be Biden\u2019s role in the coming term?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have no clue right now, but the first thing they\u2019re going to try to do is to make sure he says as little as possible that\u2019s not written down on a teleprompter. The second thing is they will probably try to use him as a liaison between the White House and the Senate because he\u2019s loved by the Senate Democrats up there. And I suspect that he\u2019s going to get into a battle with McCain over that, because people in the Obama campaign have also suggested reaching out to McCain for this role as well. So there could be an argument there between McCain and Biden over who is the best liaison from the Obama administration to the Senate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the reason why I ask is because they kept pulling him off the campaign so many times \u2019cause he kept putting his foot in his mouth, so I\u2019m just figuring he\u2019d be in the shadows more or less.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He might even be the court jester. I expect that before this is all said and done Obama\u2019s going to need a jokester to come in the Oval Office and make him laugh now and then because not much else will and they\u2019ll bring Biden in to sort of do that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know you\u2019ve been taking a lot of slack about the thug thing, but can you still call him a squirrel?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, I\u2019m surprised nobody\u2019s caught up on that yet. The thug business they\u2019re focused on — look, let me explain something to you. I got a note that makes a lot of sense here just a moment ago. You and I, we look at the media, we look at this orgasm, and it\u2019s what it is, this unending, multiple orgasm that the media particularly is having with Obama, and we say, ‘How in the world do they see things differently than we do?\u2019 Folks, it\u2019s not really complicated. When you\u2019re young — remember the first time you fall in love or even think you fall in love? You hope as you get older that that happens to you, you would love to recapture it. The first time of anything and the media right now is trying to recapture Camelot and they think they have. They\u2019re in the midst of recreating Camelot and capturing it. They\u2019re trying to relive their youth, all these Drive-Bys are, and the thing about love is that you know you can\u2019t talk anybody out of it. If you have a kid who loves somebody who\u2019s a reprobate and you\u2019re terribly scared about it and you try to talk him out of it you know it just drives them further into the arms of the person that you don\u2019t like. So there\u2019s no talking them out of this, and there\u2019s no changing their mind about it. They\u2019re going to love Obama for as long as he\u2019s around.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: A lot of us think that the left is humorless. But, ladies and gentlemen, I found evidence over the weekend that they are hilarious, at least one of them is, a guy named Rick Stengel. This is a CBS MarketWatch story. The headline: ‘How Obama Can Win Over The Media.\u2019 They do have a sense of humor. They\u2019re actually making a joke here, aren\u2019t they? ‘Rick Stengel, the managing editor of Time magazine, didn\u2019t hesitate when I asked him what advice he would have for the nation\u2019s next president. It was around 9 p.m. on Tuesday night, and Stengel was weaving his way through the throng at the CNN Grill. … ‘There has to be a new era of transparency,\u2019 Stengel told me, raising his voice to be heard over the din. I asked Stengel what the next president\u2019s priority should be. ‘Communicator-in-Chief,\u2019 Stengel said animatedly. ‘That\u2019s his main job.\u2019 Speaking for the media, who have been frustrated by outgoing President George W. Bush\u2019s infrequent public pronouncements over his eight years, Stengel urged Obama to be a constant presence in our lives.\u2019 (laughing) <\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s a love affair, and it\u2019s not so much with him. It\u2019s a love affair with the past. They don\u2019t even know him. They\u2019re admitting they don\u2019t really know who he is. We do. They don\u2019t. They\u2019re in love with Camelot. They\u2019re in love with unfulfilled promise. They are in love with an unfulfilled destiny, and they see Obama completing it. And that\u2019s what they\u2019re in love with. So of course the guy from TIME Magazine says, ‘His main job is to be communicator in chief.\u2019 Man, that\u2019s not good. And then, ‘He needs to be a constant presence in our lives.\u2019 And if he does that, Stengel says if he does that, Obama can win over the media. You know, I don\u2019t know if you people noticed this or not, Obama has a really hostile media that he deals with and this election is an amazing triumph. We haven\u2019t discussed this much, but this media that he faced, I\u2019ve never seen a more vicious, a more brutal, a more bigoted, a more unprofessional journalistic malpractice campaign aimed at Barack Obama. I\u2019m just stunned that nobody charged the Drive-Bys with racism here the way he was treated, and so now the Drive-Bys I guess are feeling a little guilty here because they\u2019re now putting out a story how Obama can win over the media. I saw this and I said, ‘This has to be in The Onion. This has to be Scott Ott. This has to be some satirist writing this.\u2019 I read it and they are damn serious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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