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RUSH: I made a prediction on this program yesterday. It has already come true. Here is what I said.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: In fact, I have a prediction for you. It won\u2019t be long, mark my words, for the next round of media spin, and it will go something like this. ‘You know, Abraham Lincoln had to deal with lots of distractions. Abraham Lincoln had to deal with a lot of innuendo. In fact, Jesus Christ did, too. Jesus Christ had his problems dealing with people in his immediate orb who were corrupt. He had his own traitors to deal with. This is nothing new. This has happened throughout our human history.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: I predicted yesterday it won\u2019t be long before the same thing was said. Let\u2019s go to the tape. David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen did it. He didn\u2019t use Christ or Lincoln, he used Harry Truman. Last night on Anderson Cooper 180, Cooper said, ‘Even if there aren\u2019t direct connections, do you think in some way, probably in conservatives\u2019 minds, taints Obama, or links him to Chicago-style politics? Clearly there\u2019s a strain of Chicago politics of corruption.\u2019<\/p>\n

GERGEN: It\u2019s important to remember history, Anderson. Harry Truman was a great president. Harry Truman was a product of the Pendergast Machine, a famous machine in 1930s and forties in the state of Missouri. And a lot of people thought, well, he must have the taint of corruption. He wasn\u2019t. He was an honest man who came out of a corrupt system, and I think that we\u2019ve always regarded him as one of our best and most honest presidents, so I think it\u2019s unfair to say to that about Obama, because he comes out of this milieu, which has a lot of this corruption, that he himself, he seems to have come out of this with a lot of innocence. (laugh track)<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. That\u2019s David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen, ladies and gentlemen, basically saying what I said at the open of the program. Obama, he is walking a straight line in a crooked world. He is able to walk on the — (interruption) that doesn\u2019t sound like laughter? Well, you know why it doesn\u2019t sound like laughter? It\u2019s because we had to download it from the Internet because our sound effects guy can\u2019t be found. Oh, you got a couple more? Here, let\u2019s just audition the laugh tracks right now, play a couple more. (playing of laugh tracks) You like number two? Okay, we\u2019re going to put this to the test now. Play number two, play Mr. David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen again and put these laugh tracks in when appropriate. I shouldn\u2019t have to tell you when that is. (replaying of Gergen bite) See, my problem is this stuff does not sound like laughter to me at all which is why I got fooled by the first one. So you guys are going to have to tell me because this just sounds like applause to me, I can\u2019t tell anybody is laughing in this bite. <\/p>\n

My question about Gergen is, is CNN paying him to be a joke? Or does it just come naturally to him? See, what\u2019s happening to the Drive-Bys, they are all becoming jokes. They are making abject fools of themselves, just like David Shuster today with Anne Kornblut. They don\u2019t know beans yet about what happened. All they\u2019ve got is the various denials. But now they\u2019re spreading the rumor, they\u2019re spreading the word that Blagojevich is insane, that he\u2019s a sociopath, and then to take the cake, to explain why Valerie Jarrett, who Obama really wanted to get his Senate seat and who really wanted the Senate seat, why she pulled out. (paraphrasing) ‘Well, it\u2019s obvious,\u2019 they don\u2019t know anything, ‘it\u2019s obvious she got wind of what was going on, that Blagojevich was trying to charge money for this and she\u2019s so up and up and she\u2019s so smart, that she wanted no part of this, and she ran straight to Rahm Emanuel, and Rahm Emanuel said, ‘Well, that\u2019s outrageous, that is not done in the Democrat Party. We do not pay and charge people for Senate seats and patronage and I\u2019m going to go to the US attorney and I\u2019m going to get this shut down.” And Kornblut said, ‘Well, we\u2019re just guessing here, Mr. Shyster, but that sounds entirely plausible.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So they\u2019re making jokes of themselves, and this is going to continue. They wonder why they are losing circulation, why they\u2019re having to file for bankruptcy. The half of their audience in newspapers and network news that still have jobs and therefore earn money to patronize advertisers are the people they are alienating, the people that don\u2019t have jobs, that people that can\u2019t patronize their advertisers, and the businesses that no longer want to advertise in the papers because it doesn\u2019t work are the very people being alienated by the Drive-By Media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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