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RUSH: Bob Tyrrell, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. who writes The Continuing Crisis column at American Spectator, it\u2019s his magazine, just came up with a whole new way to describe Begala, The Skull, not The Forehead, The Skull, so emaciated that he needs so much makeup before he goes on TV that you can\u2019t tell whether he\u2019s laughing or frowning. So it just really dices up Paul Begala. Begala was on Anderson Cooper 180 last night and Cooper said, ‘Are you working with Carville, perhaps Emanuel, others in the White House, as part of a concerted effort to target Limbaugh?\u2019<\/p>\n

BEGALA: I don\u2019t know what you mean by concerted effort. I guess the short answer is, no, I do what I do, James. I\u2019m — he and I agree. My best friend. I\u2019ve been — we\u2019ve been in business, informally at least, or formally, for 25 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He doesn\u2019t know. Depends on how you define ‘concerted.\u2019 Now, The Politico said that it\u2019s happening. By the way, Stephanopoulos denies that there are conference calls every morning, or even any morning. He says there\u2019s never been a conference call with him, Begala, Carville, or the ballerina, Rahm Emanuel. So Anderson Cooper said, ‘More people didn\u2019t like Rush Limbaugh than Reverend Wright in your poll. You guys put out that Reverend Wright\u2019s positives are higher than Rush Limbaugh.\u2019<\/p>\n

BEGALA: In fairness to the data, a whole lot fewer people knew who Reverend Wright was. A lot more people liked Limbaugh as well as disliked him. So — so, you know, it probably averaged out where the net might have even been better for Rush, but the negative rating, that is the disapproval of Limbaugh, was 58.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it sounds like their polling data, might have shared this with the ballerina and was the reason they came up with the White House strategery to focus on me. So they put out the original data — remember the original news story went out that my favorabilities were lower than Reverend Wrights\u2019. Well, how about this now. ‘We must admit a lot fewer people ever heard of Reverend Wright.\u2019 I wonder why that is? I wonder why so few people have heard of Reverend Wright. Could it be because the Drive-By Media, the butt boy media just swept aside any reference? You gotta let me use it once a day before you criticize me. They swept aside any reference in the media of the Reverend Wright. And then Paul Begala here says, ‘Might have even been better for Rush.\u2019 Well, of course I\u2019m going to have higher numbers than Reverend Wright. Anyway, next question from Anderson Cooper. ‘Clearly you\u2019re talking to Rahm Emanuel every day on the phone, and this lightbulb\u2019s gone off in your head, and James Carville said, ‘I find it hard to believe you don\u2019t say to Rahm Emanuel, ‘guess what, look at our poll numbers on Limbaugh.”\u2019<\/p>\n

BEGALA: I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t keep careful notes of these things. My view is I keep private conversations private, Anderson, and that\u2019s part of — of what I do to try to figure out what\u2019s going on in the world. But also, I mean, I — I talk to my friends about any number of things. But here\u2019s the secret: I don\u2019t like Rush Limbaugh. Here\u2019s the other secret: He is the most powerful person in the Republican Party today, bar none.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Paul Begala, The Skull, does not know if he discussed me with Rahm Emanuel. He didn\u2019t take notes, private conversations. Anderson, what you need to ask these guys, ‘You work for us, you work for CNN. I know as commentators and so forth, but are you participating in a White House strategy targeting a political opponent?\u2019 Me. Let\u2019s go Carville. Wolf Blitzer talking to Carville last night on The Situation Room, they had this exchange about me.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: Is this all a conspiracy, James? You, Paul Begala, Rahm Emanuel, to create this whole Rush Limbaugh situation?<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Well, I think that — that honestly I want to — I don\u2019t want to take credit away from — from the great Rush Limbaugh who — who did it on January the 16th when he said he wanted to — the president\u2019s policies to fail, and that\u2019s what started the whole thing, so I don\u2019t — don\u2019t give Paul and I or Rahm credit where it\u2019s really due to the great Rush Limbaugh. He — he\u2019s the one that really started all this, so my hat\u2019s off to you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Blitzer said, ‘They\u2019re also saying that way back during the campaign in October, you, among others, were putting Limbaugh in polling questions to try to test if this would be a good strategy to pit the Democrats against him, if you will.<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: We\u2019ve put Rush Limbaugh in our polls for a long time. He\u2019s been unpopular in every one. In fact, we\u2019re in the field right now with a poll with Rush Limbaugh, and we\u2019ll be releasing those results, I don\u2019t know what they are, maybe he\u2019s gotten more popular, but we\u2019ll find out. You know — I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a plot, a conspiracy, or what, but we poll all the time, and none of this would have happened without — without Rush being the one that started it all by saying that he wanted the president\u2019s policies to fail.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, right, it started back in the nineties with Clinton, the same bunch of people. Dick Morris was on with O\u2019Reilly last night, and O\u2019Reilly, ‘What about this effort to link the Republican Party to Limbaugh and the White House taking out this attack? What do you think about this, Dick?\u2019<\/p>\n

MORRIS: Carville, Emanuel, and Stephanopoulos have a mind meld.<\/p>\n

COOPER: Okay. But is it smart —<\/p>\n

MORRIS: It\u2019s a smart strategy. I did the same thing when I worked for Clinton. I didn\u2019t like running against Bob Dole \u2019cause he was a decent guy. And we didn\u2019t have anything to say about Jack Kemp, his running mate, so we made Newt Gingrich his running mate, and we said vote against the Dole-Gingrich proposal and we basically put Gingrich on the ballot even though he wasn\u2019t because back then a lot of people didn\u2019t like him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s the mind meld, it\u2019s the strategy. I don\u2019t know why Carville or Begala wouldn\u2019t just man up and take credit for it. I don\u2019t know why they won\u2019t. Politico had the story, Jonathan Martin. These guys are hanging behind, they didn\u2019t take notes in the phone call, private phone calls here. I\u2019ll tell you why they\u2019re not manning up and taking it. I can tell you why Carville is not saying, (doing Carville impression) ‘Yeah, yeah, we did it, I did it between bites of gumbo, that\u2019s how I did it. What do you mean? I\u2019ll be glad to take credit. Rush Limbaugh, great Rush Limbaugh. Hell, he started all this.\u2019 The reason that they\u2019re not willing to take credit for it yet is \u2019cause they don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to work. They don\u2019t know. They\u2019re not confident it\u2019s gonna work. They\u2019re polling me again now. ‘Hell, I don\u2019t know, he may be more popular, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know what the results are. We\u2019ll have \u2019em soon.\u2019 That\u2019s why they\u2019re not manning up, Mr. Snerdley, \u2019cause they don\u2019t know yet whether this has worked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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