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RUSH: Now, a couple words here about Bobby Jindal. There\u2019s a great disconnect, ladies and gentlemen, between the Beltway pundits in the Drive-By Media — and I, sadly, have to include the Fox News All Stars in this. We live in a world obviously where style counts for more than anything else, and that\u2019s not good. Obama\u2019s a great stylist, a great orator, who gave great speech last night. But if you listen to it, it was meaningless. It had all kinds of lies. <\/p>\n

Those of us who studied Obama know exactly what he\u2019s going to do. He\u2019s going to grow the government as big as he can. He\u2019s going to expand the government sector. He\u2019s going to do it at the expense of the high end of the private sector. He\u2019s going to do this. He\u2019s got the votes, by the way. If his speech created a bump in his approval numbers, he\u2019s got the votes to do anything he wants. He can do cap-and-trade, and he can do health care reform in 30 days. He can do socialized medicine. He can do whatever he wants as soon as he wants depending on the bump and the bounce he gets out of this speech, and I fully expect that the Drive-Bys will run polls showing that his approval numbers are way, way up. But the market is way, way down. <\/p>\n

Again, the people with skin in the game heard the speech last night, and they don\u2019t like it. The market is down. It\u2019s vacillating around 150, minus 150 today. It\u2019s been around 180 or 122. It started out at minus 14. Now it\u2019s at minus 151. So the people with skin in the game, the people who invest their money to try to grow the economy are not digging what they heard last night. That continues to be the case with real people who make the country work. So we have a great stylist, a great orator who makes a great symbolic speech, wows everybody with his style. Everybody is falling all over themselves last night to praise Barack Obama in new ways that they think he hasn\u2019t been praised. ‘Elegant,\u2019 he was… I forget some of the things. But I\u2019m sure you were frustrated listening to it. Then Bobby Jindal came on, and everybody trashed Bobby Jindal. ‘That was the worst response I\u2019ve ever seen. Why, that was horrible! Well, this is embarrassing. Why, get him off! This is rotten. He blew his chance,\u2019 and so forth. It\u2019s very mistaken to have that impression of Bobby Jindal. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me just say it right out. I love Bobby Jindal and that did not change after last night. I respect Bobby Jindal; I have great enthusiasm for Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, and nothing that happened last night changed my mind. Now, these answers to State of the Union speeches have been silly since I first became aware of them after Nixon was giving speeches in the early seventies and the Democrats had to come out. I almost got fired from a music station. I was doing a morning show in Pittsburgh, and maybe it had happened before this, but it had to be 1972, and I\u2019m watching a response to a Nixon speech, and I\u2019m on the air the next day, ‘What the hell was that? It\u2019s not in the Constitution, where is this response stuff?\u2019 And it\u2019s always been silly. I remember Jim Wright, Fort Worthless Jim, the speaker of the House from Houston, or somewhere in Texas, responding to Reagan. ‘We only want to help the president. We only want to work with the president.\u2019 You shifty-eyed, lying, you never intended — all you wanted to do was destroy. But I never heard the Drive-By Media talk about what a rotten, horrible, stupid speaker Jim Wright was. In fact, they built him up. <\/p>\n

And then I remember Rosty Rostenkowski, he answered a presidential speech at one time, and John McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Group went nuts, ‘Do we have a new Democrat spokesman, Rosty!\u2019 So the Democrats go out there and give their responses, be it to Bush 41 or 43, and nobody dumped on them because they understand it\u2019s a lose-lose. Here you\u2019ve got the big pomp and ceremony with live feedback, stand up, standing ovation, applause after applause after applause in the House chamber, and then you get some dinky little anteroom or even a governor\u2019s mansion in front of a staircase where there\u2019s no laugh track, there\u2019s no applause track, there\u2019s none of this. But I never heard, I have never heard the media, both sides, conservative, liberal media, dump on a responder in all my life until last night. They dumped on Jindal in ways that are damaging and make no sense. I hear from all of you in e-mail or on phone calls, you\u2019re sick of style, you\u2019re stick of phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 rollers who lie through their teeth and tell people whatever they want to hear, but they do it so well. You\u2019re sick of it because it\u2019s destroying the country. Well, we got that big time last night. <\/p>\n

We got lie after lie after lie spoken as well as it\u2019s ever been said. We had nothing said last night, unless you knew who this guy is, and are willing to admit it, then you could walk out of that room last night scared to death for your country. But if you don\u2019t know who the guy is, you walk out of there feeling great because, man, he sounds smart, and it looked good, and, wow, everybody loved him, and, oh, it\u2019s sort of like the faith people have in God. You can\u2019t prove it, but you know it. You can\u2019t tell anybody why, but you know it. Same thing here. People who don\u2019t believe in God believe in Obama. Agnostics, atheists, because believe me, a planeload of atheists on a jet on the way to Hawaii and three of the four engines go out, the atheists start praying to who? God. Not the ocean, to save \u2019em. Everybody believes in God at some point, but not until they face their mortality. Everybody does. They have some God. Very few people think they\u2019re it. Obama is one. I think when Obama prays, it\u2019s to himself. Those of us who know him know this. Those of us who don\u2019t care about that, who just want symbolism, feel so good. <\/p>\n

So, where are we? We as conservatives are in the wilderness, and many of you are hopeless. So we have a guy, Bobby Jindal, 37 years old, first time on the national stage, shows up last night to make a response to The Messiah. All he did was articulate what we believe. All he did was articulate opposition to what Obama is doing, with the obligatory when he\u2019s right, we\u2019ll work with him, just like we worked with Clinton on NAFTA, just like we worked with Clinton on welfare reform after we brought him in. These things happen. It doesn\u2019t mean that we lose our distrust. All Bobby Jindal did was tell us what conservatism is; he used his own life story to do it; he talked about the American people making the country work. He had it all. Now, he may not have done it in the same stylistic way as Obama. I can understand the Democrats trashing the man, just as they trashed Sarah Palin. They are mean-spirited, heartless, horrible winners. But the people on our side are really making a mistake if they go after Bobby Jindal on the basis of style. <\/p>\n

Because if you think people on our side, I\u2019m talking to you, those of you who think Jindal was horrible, in fact, I don\u2019t want to hear from you ever again if you think that what Bobby Jindal said was bad or what he said was wrong or not said well, because, folks, style is not going to take our country back. Solid conservatism articulated in a way that\u2019s inspiring and understanding is what\u2019s going to take the country back. Bobby Jindal\u2019s 37 years old. I\u2019ve spoken to him numerous times. He\u2019s brilliant. He\u2019s the real deal. I\u2019m not coming here to defend him, he doesn\u2019t need that. We\u2019re going to have to figure out what we want. Do we want to have somebody in our party who can sound as smart as Obama regardless what he says and convince people to vote for us, or do we believe in a set of principles that defined this country\u2019s founding and will return it to greatness again? And if we do, we cannot shun politicians who share those beliefs simply \u2019cause we don\u2019t like the way they say it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. One more thing about Bobby Jindal here. Two years ago, if you had taken a poll among people who know Bernie Madoff, he would have had a 99% approval rating, and the guy who had blown the whistle on him would have had a 1% approval rating. Today, Bernie Madoff has a 0% approval rating and the guys who blew the whistle on him are now being asked, ‘Why didn\u2019t you speak up louder?\u2019 Barack Obama has whatever his approval rating is. Somebody told Bobby Jindal to act like he was talking to first graders last night. I don\u2019t know who advised him to do it. That can get fixed. But don\u2019t throw this guy overboard, and our side is doing this, and it is a huge mistake. If we\u2019re going to start throwing genuine conservatives overboard for some of these specious reasons, we deserve to get our butts beat every election. <\/p>\n

Greetings and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. 800-282-2882. One hour from now, our Female Summit<\/a> begins; instructions to callers to come in due course. Bobby Jindal and this whole business here of his speech and how it was not delivered in such a great, stylish way. How about the story he told? During Katrina, people on their rooftops, line after line after line after line of rescue boats, federal bureaucrats would not let \u2019em leave without proof of insurance. A local sheriff told a bureaucrat, ‘Sue me. Arrest me. I\u2019m going to rescue people.\u2019 Jindal heard him, said ‘What are you talking about, sheriff?\u2019 The sheriff told the story. Jindal gets on the phone to the bureaucrat and says, ‘I\u2019m Bobby Jindal, congressman, Louisiana. You can arrest me, too,\u2019 and they set out on the boats and they said to hell with FEMA, and they went and got the job done. <\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t wait around for the bureaucracy. That story is the antithesis of where America is today, and it\u2019s the kind of story that America needs to hear and understand that made the country great. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Bobby Jindal on the Today show this morning. Meredith Vieira says, ‘You just heard the vice president take you to task for some of the words that you brought up last night. He said, basically, he\u2019s heard about all the criticism, but you never say what you\u2019re going to do.\u2019<\/p>\n

JINDAL: The Republicans have laid out a plan, for example, rather than spending a billion dollars on the Census, $300 million to buy federal government cars, instead of all the wasteful spending in the stimulus, why not do what they first said they were going to do: let\u2019s do targeted infrastructure investments, let\u2019s do tax breaks, let\u2019s lower permanently the tax, lower tax breaks on the lower tax brackets in the income tax, let\u2019s cut taxes on capital gains, let\u2019s give a more aggressive net carry forward of losses for small businesses. Here\u2019s the fundamental disagreement. We think we do need to work to get the economy moving. We think it\u2019s more important to get the private sector moving rather than just spending government money. We need to focus on getting our businesses to hire people to create jobs. That will help to address the challenges that our country is facing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s Bobby Jindal expressing conservatism in a clear and articulate way, direct contrast to that coming out of the mouth of Obama. So the guy is good, folks. Don\u2019t throw him overboard. By the way, speaking of Bobby Jindal, as you know, he said he doesn\u2019t want to take some of the stimulus money because it will wreck the law and the budget on unemployment compensation benefits in Louisiana. Guess who\u2019s joining him? The Democrat governor of Tennessee says he might reject a portion of his stimulus out of concerns it would force the state to raise taxes on business in the future, exactly what Jindal said. This caused Chuck-U Schumer to come on and say, you can\u2019t just take a la carte here, you gotta take it all or take nothing. But a Democrat governor now parroting Bobby Jindal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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