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RUSH: The second ad by this group called Americans United for Change. It\u2019s basically a bunch of left-wingers and union people. The ad is hilarious. I was minding my own business. I was doing show prep last night while filling out an application to join yet another club to which I have been invited, and all of a sudden I get this note from Jonathan Martin at The Politico. ‘Hey, Rush. That same group is back with a new ad focusing on you. Do you have any comments?\u2019 I normally hate watching video on computers because I cannot hear them, and it\u2019s frustrating as it can be. I just don\u2019t. This one was about me, or had me in it somewhere. So I decided to give it a shot, and I was able to hear this one. This is the audio of the ad.<\/p>\n

WHISPERING ANNOUNCER: (dramatic music) An economy in crisis! A president determined to act. But what did Republican leaders say to President Obama\u2019s jobs and recovery plan?<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: No.<\/line><\/line>WHISPERING ANNOUNCER: What did they say to 3.5 million jobs?<\/line><\/p>\n

BOEHNER: No.<\/p>\n

WHISPERING ANNOUNCER: What did they say to tax cuts for 95% of working Americans?<\/p>\n

CANTOR: No.<\/p>\n

WHISPERING ANNOUNCER: What did they say to rebuilding roads, bridges, and schools? <\/p>\n

CORNYN: No.<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: No.<\/p>\n

BOEHNER: No.<\/p>\n

WHISPERING ANNOUNCER: So who are Republican leaders listening to?<\/p>\n

LIMBAUGH: I want him to fail!<\/p>\n

WHISPERING ANNOUNCER: Tell them America won\u2019t take ‘no\u2019 for an answer anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I played it two or three more times, and I remembered James Carville all week and last Sunday out in the TV shows (Carville impression), ‘Mr. Rush Limbaugh is leading the Republican Party. Mr. Rush Limbaugh is a grand pooh-bah. He is Mr. IQ. He is the leader of the Republican Party.\u2019 So Jonathan Martin says, ‘Do you have any response?\u2019 I said, ‘Look,\u2019 and I sent him back an obscene response that I knew he couldn\u2019t use. He said, ‘Look, do you want me to run this? I can doctor it.\u2019 I said, ‘No, no, no.\u2019 Here\u2019s what I told him. ‘Look, the left needs demons. They need demons to distract everybody while they\u2019re trying to implement what they\u2019re trying to implement — and Bush is gone, so I\u2019m it. Because I\u2019m the only one, apparently, not backing down on anything.\u2019 <\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing. Folks, I say this again. What is so damned important about the Democrats getting Republicans to join \u2019em on any of this? If this munificence, the Obama spending, is going to result in such magic — if we\u2019re going to end up with that great utopia that the leftists of the world have always dreamed of — why in the world would they want to credit Republicans for helping create it? Wouldn\u2019t they much prefer after this utopia is created to be able to point to me and to Boehner and to Newt and to Eric Cantor and say, ‘They didn\u2019t want you to be happy. They didn\u2019t want this utopia to succeed. Then try to stop us!\u2019 That would end the Republican Party forever. They could wipe out the Republican Party by going this alone and having it work as promised and then pointing fingers of blame at us. Instead, they want to demonize us. <\/p>\n

The game has become not, ‘What is Obama doing?\u2019 not, ‘What are these abhorrent ideas?\u2019 not this major restructuring of the American compact. The all-out assault on liberty, freedom, and capitalism that is underway now under the leadership of Barack Obama, that\u2019s of no interest to them at all. What\u2019s of interest to them is, ‘The Republicans are opposing! The Republicans are stopping. The Republicans don\u2019t agree.\u2019 The Republicans this and that. It\u2019s breathtaking to watch. Remember, they want ‘bipartisanship.\u2019 Bipartisanship only happens after one side has been defeated. Ask the Japanese in World War II. Ask the Germans. Bipartisanship is the same as the Limbaugh Doctrine. The only way to really get peace anywhere is when one of the combatants loses and has to surrender and is forced to change their ways. <\/p>\n

Well, we conservatives have not been defeated. We have not lost. We will not be defeated. We will not give up. We\u2019re not going to cave in, and we\u2019re not going to respond to all of this pressure being brought to bear to get us to join this debacle. Because that would truly be the end of us, and that is what they know. If we make the mistake of joining this boondoggle, that\u2019s when we are finished with our own voters, of whom there are 55 to 58 million. It\u2019s an all-out assault designed to get us to basically commit political suicide — and, of course, we\u2019re not going to do so. Now, not all of the left is unhappy about this. The next sound bite is from Tina Brown, who at one time ruled the New York glitterati media establishment when she was the editrix at Vanity Fair. <\/p>\n

And then she moved over to the New Yorker. I can remember when I first got to New York, people that I had great respect for, if they got a phone call from Tina Brown, they may as well have gone and had an orgasm. ‘Tina Brown wants to have lunch with me!\u2019 Who\u2019s Tina Brown? ‘Well, she\u2019s Vanity Fair, Conde Nast.\u2019 Oh, okay. I never understood it, other than she was at the top of the perch in the literary circles of the Big Apple. So I got to know her very briefly. I met her maybe twice. She dispatched one of the other writers at Vanity Fair, Peter Boyer — a great, great guy — to do a profile of me in Vanity Fair in the early nineties, and it was a good profile. It was a good story. <\/p>\n

Boyer has since to be heard from. I think he does some stuff at PBS, but he took a hit. I saw Tina Brown last year. Remember when I was in New York? A year ago January, Cindy Adams of the New York Post had invited me to go to dinner and she said, after I\u2019d agreed, ‘By the way, we gotta stop by for a screening of a Susan Sarandon movie at HBO.\u2019 I said, ‘Oh, wonderful.\u2019 So I couldn\u2019t pull out of this. So we went to this thing, and got there and the line of people at the coat check saw Tina Brown and Harry Evans, her distinguished, savoir faire husband. So I said, ‘Hi, how are you guys?\u2019 They were as nice as they could be. ‘You remember the profile by Peter Boyer and Vanity Fair?\u2019 ‘Oh, yeah. Very, very nice.\u2019 Then somehow I end up… <\/p>\n

She\u2019s got this new website, and every time they put something up on the website I get an e-mail from her; ostensibly to plug it and promote it, which I haven\u2019t done. So, nevertheless, despite this, I have been sweet as I can be. I have been nice. I have been a gentleman. I have been respectful. The only time I really hit Tina Brown on this program was during the funeral of Princess Di when she made some Oprah-like statements about Tony Blair. I don\u2019t remember what she said. He feels the concrete. He feels the soil on which these people are showing up to pay their respects. I said, ‘Whoa, whoa.\u2019 I had a little fun with this. So she\u2019s on Scarborough\u2019s show today on MSNBC. The cohost Willie Geist is talking to Tina Brown. They play this ad that you just heard, and Geist says, ‘The ‘party of NO\u2019 has become the buzz term of the last couple of days.\u2019<\/p>\n

BROWN: I think it\u2019s wonderful. The only thing I do regret, though, is this, you know, giant blowhard bullfrog — <\/p>\n

GEIST: (cackling)<\/p>\n

BROWN: — you know, Rush Limbow (sic) is being turned into this big icon. I mean, this is a great ad for Rush Limbow, too, so. You know, I love the party of ‘no\u2019 but I\u2019d love it making Rush into this giant… <\/p>\n

GEIST: (cackling)<\/p>\n

BROWN: He\u2019s a bullfrog with a bullhorn. What can I say?<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re all jealousy. Tina, I have been a giant and an icon long before these cheap imitators at Americans United for Change came along. (laughing) It\u2019s just getting vicious out there. It\u2019s getting vicious. Bush Derangement Syndrome is now Rush Derangement Syndrome, and they are deranged. They need demons. They need a demon to get everybody\u2019s attention focused away from what they are doing. Liberalism cannot flourish in the free market. Liberal talk shows demonstrate this. Liberalism cannot… ‘Now, Rush what about television and…?\u2019 I wouldn\u2019t call it a free market. Those people can force-feed whatever they want, and if they have a monopoly, for example, on television — which they don\u2019t, the monopoly is gone, but liberalism doesn\u2019t flourish in the free market. <\/p>\n

Liberals do not even argue. Liberalism, as Karl Rove wrote in the Wall Street Journal this week, set up straw men. It\u2019s like Obama and his speech. (doing Obama impression) ‘And to those who say, we must do nothing…\u2019 Rove is saying, ‘Who says do nothing? There\u2019s nobody saying we should do nothing,\u2019 and he used about ten or 12 of these straw dog arguments during the campaign. He claims to the brain-dead, IQ-less minions watching him that there are all these mean, rotten SOBs trying to stop him from making this utopia; and he characterizes them. ‘These people who say we should do nothing. These people who say X…\u2019 There are no people saying what he\u2019s claiming are being said, but it doesn\u2019t matter because the people watching him think there are people saying so \u2019cause The Messiah just said there were. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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