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RUSH: Yesterday on MSNBC\u2019s New York Times Transition Edition (laughing) the cohost Tamron Hall interviewed Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Tamron Hall said this.<\/p>\n

HALL: I was in a car the other day with a gentleman from another country, and he said, ‘I just really feel the — the weather is better because of Barack Obama.\u2019 He said, ‘I think he\u2019s on the good side. Look at the weather as proof,\u2019 and I pointed out that it was snowing and 34 degrees that day in Chicago and cold, but beyond the obvious black and white rhetoric which we seem to get caught up in a lot in the country, what about the impact overall? You hear people saying this is a good thing globally. Take us past the black and white that may be happening in Washington, DC, and talk about the global impact this could have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What a source to ask this question of Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. And here\u2019s what she said.<\/p>\n

DOWD: It\u2019s almost like the whole W, my image is that he took the family station wagon and crashed into the globe. Then he backed it up and crashed into the economy, and at that point it was such a mess that they said, ‘Hey, let the black rookie have a chance. He can\u2019t make it any worse,\u2019 and already he\u2019s made it better because already we feel this wonderful hope that perhaps things that are illegal like torture and domestic spying and Gitmo, you know, that these things can be rectified by a constitutional law professor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is just insane. Maureen, you\u2019re in the news business. Did you not read the AP-Obama yesterday celebrating the fact that many of these executive orders that guarantee the president the right to spy on the bad guys are going to remain in place because they will offer Obama flexibility in fighting the war on terror? I know she sounded like a complete idiot. She normally doesn\u2019t sound like a complete idiot. She sounded like an idiot. Had this wonderful hope that perhaps things that are illegal — torture, domestic spying, Gitmo — what a narrow tunnel vision here. And, by the way, this economy, if it hadn\u2019t been for George W. Bush, would have crashed five years ago, if it hadn\u2019t been for the Bush economic policies. But, look, let\u2019s talk about Gitmo for just a second because Obama does want to close it, and there are 250 really bad, bad guys at Club Gitmo. I mean these are the bottom of the barrel dregs. These are genuine human debris that are at Club Gitmo. The Democrats want to get them out of there and bring them to the United States for trial in the US court system, giving them full access to constitutional rights. <\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s take this a little step further. Let\u2019s go to the actual trial. Bring in one of these shreds of human debris, a trial in a US court has all kinds of requirements. The prosecution has to have evidence, there has to have been Miranda warnings, all these kinds of things. Can you imagine testimony from the defense and witnesses about what happened on the battlefield when this terrorist was nabbed, how his rights were denied him? And remember now, he\u2019s in the US court system, he has access to US constitutional rights. I can see a jury acquitting, based on our judicial system, I can see a jury acquitting a whole bunch of these 250 dregs of society. Then, after they are acquitted, they are innocent, what do you do with them? Do you just let them stay in town? Do you let them stay in the country? Or do you kick \u2019em out? If you kick \u2019em out, on what basis? You just found that they\u2019re not guilty. And on the other hand there are all kinds of people living here who do not have legal papers. No countries want these people back. You can\u2019t send \u2019em back to where they\u2019re from because where they\u2019re from doesn\u2019t want them. These are the dregs of society. We do not have 250 angels down at Club Gitmo. The legal team that\u2019s going to be in charge of devising the strategery here is led by Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe, which is hardly governing from the center.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, folks. We have to get a grip. We have to get a grip out there. Look, we survived four years of Jimmy Carter, and that was bad. We survived Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society and the war on poverty. I mean, we\u2019re still paying for it, and it didn\u2019t work, and it\u2019s destroyed a whole lot of people\u2019s lives in this country. But we\u2019re still here and we\u2019re still progressing and we\u2019re still improving our lives, and we will still be able to do so. It\u2019s just gonna take lot of work. Let me give you a quote. Samuel Adams: ‘It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.\u2019 Now, what this means in the current context is, the assault that an Obama administration will make on liberty is precisely where we aim in trying to tell people what\u2019s happening to them, why it\u2019s happening, and how to change it and how to stop it. <\/p>\n

Because I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re brown, black, green, from Mars; if you\u2019re old, young, whatever: the one thing that every American believes in and will fight for is freedom. And when that freedom is under assault, particularly by a government, Americans will rally; and our freedom — if Obama is able to implement much what he has stated, much of what his past indicates, there will be great assaults on freedom. The government is already taking over a number of businesses, or at least getting their hands in them. That always leads to restrictions on freedom, and this is where the battle I think will be joined over the concept of liberty, over the concept of freedom. Now, we survived Jimmy Carter. We survived Lyndon Johnson. I mean, we even survived Watergate. That was — as far as the party was concerned — a debacle, and we came back much sooner after Watergate than anybody thought. <\/p>\n

Now everybody is comparing the party plunge this year to the same thing that happened after Watergate. Okay, fine. The lesson from Watergate is you come back, and you can come back. When the going gets tough, people start working harder. The people that accept the responsibilities of life in this country will continue to be the ones that make the country work. There will be obstacles placed in the way, larger in some cases than ever before, but that will just inspire a lot of people to overcome them. That inspiration, by the way, will be forthcoming from this hallowed microphone (tapping mic) each and every day. ‘Cause we\u2019re not going to sit around and let the institutions and traditions that have defined this country\u2019s greatness simply be destroyed without any effort to stop it. <\/p>\n

So right now it\u2019s… I get kind of amused when I look at the way the media is covering this guy. I\u2019ll tell you something else about Obama. You heard the concept. Remember when Donald Trump was in financial trouble, he couldn\u2019t pay back all the loans at this point in time that he owed various banks? So the banks had to rewrite and redo the loans, because Trump was too big to fail. If they let Trump fail… That whole philosophy… It\u2019s come back now — and, by the way, Trump paid it all back. He\u2019s cool, fine, but that whole philosophy is operative now. ‘Citibank? Too big to fail. Big Three automakers? Too big to fail. American Express credit cards? Too big to fail.\u2019 I don\u2019t know about that, but I\u2019ll tell you: as far as all they have invested in Obama, he\u2019s too big to fail — and I\u2019m talking about the media. <\/p>\n

They have invested so much in this guy. If you are expecting the media to ever turn on this guy in toto, it ain\u2019t going to happen. You might see a story here or there critical of something as these people just try to keep themselves appearing honest. But there is so much invested in this guy. He represents so much more than just the presidency now. He represents things that (to the Drive-Bys, to the Democrats) are beyond human. He\u2019s too big to fail. So do not expect the standard build-\u2019em-up-and-then-tear-\u2019em-down from the Drive-By Media on this guy. It will not happen. He\u2019s going to have to screw up so bad — he\u2019s going to have to mistreat a reporter so bad; something is going to have to go so bad that we can\u2019t even visualize what it is — to force the press to do a 180. He\u2019s too big to fail. Remember the Drive-Bys think they got him elected. The Drive-Bys sheltered the truth about this guy. <\/p>\n

The Drive-Bys helped create and present this image, this charismatic demagoguery. They helped write the script. They made it happen, and they are proud. They are happy. This was historic. In their minds they have made history. It\u2019s Camelot again, folks. It\u2019s Camelot! Camelot cannot fail. Camelot cannot end up being a bad thing in the history books. Barack Obama cannot and will not be allowed to go into the history books as the guy who destroyed the notion of Camelot, \u2019cause the Camelot thing is tied to the Kennedys. It ain\u2019t going to happen. He\u2019s too big to fail. So do not get your hopes invested in the press turning on him. It isn\u2019t going to happen. He\u2019s too big to fail. Now, I\u2019m talking about image-wise. He can bomb out as a president, it\u2019s just they won\u2019t report it. He can bomb out. He could… (sighs) I don\u2019t even want to speculate on things, but there are ways. I have nothing in mind; I was just going to make something up. He could make a series of blunders like no president\u2019s ever made; they will cover. They\u2019ll find a way to cover for him. He\u2019s too big to fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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