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RUSH: Sarah Palin closed out her career as governor of Alaska yesterday. We have three sound bites from her remarks.<\/p>\n

PALIN: You have such important jobs reporting facts and informing the electorate and exerting power to influence. You represent what could and should be a respected, honest profession that could and should be a cornerstone of our democracy. Democracy depends on you. And that is why our troops are willing to die for you. So, how about — in honor of the American soldier — you quit making things up. (cheers and applause) And don\u2019t underestimate the wisdom of the people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what elected official do you hear talking that way to the media about the media? There is a reason why this woman drew huge crowds during the campaign last summer and into last fall. And she\u2019s exactly right. They\u2019ve met their Waterloo, as I said last week, and it\u2019s Barack Obama. They have sacrificed integrity (whatever little they had) their character, their professionalism, to prop this guy and his administration up. They are stenographers for Rahm Emanuel. They\u2019re propagandists for the White House and, increasingly, the Democrat Party at large. Here, Sarah Palin warns Alaska to resist big government.<\/p>\n

PALIN: We must value and live the optimistic pioneering spirit that made this state proud and free, and we can resist enslavement to big central government that crushes hope and opportunity. Be wary of accepting government largesse. It doesn\u2019t come free, and often accepting it takes away everything that is free. Melting into Washington\u2019s powerful, caretaking arms will just suck incentive to work hard and chart our own course right out of us — and that not only contributes to an unstable economy and dizzying national debt, but it does make us less free.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is there another elected official talking that way about big government? Sadly, no. This next bite is one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

PALIN: Please, let\u2019s not start believing that government is the answer. It can\u2019t make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise. What can? It is the wisdom of the people and our families and our small businesses and industrious individuals, and it is God\u2019s grace helping those who help themselves. (whistles and cheers) And then this allows that very generous voluntary hand up that we\u2019re known for enthusiastically providing those who need it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is… (laughs) That\u2019s good. ‘Government can\u2019t make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise.\u2019 Is there an elected official saying these things? Now, remember, we\u2019ve got all kinds of people on our side thinking this woman\u2019s stupid. She\u2019s an idiot. You know, she\u2019s unsophisticated and so forth. I\u2019m always asked what I think of Sarah Palin. Greta asked me in the interview, and we\u2019ll play the sound bite of what I said. The question: ‘[F]rom an ideology point of view, who do you think is the smartest or best candidate in your mind now?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I\u2019m looking right now who can win. And I\u2019m looking who excites crowds. And also I think, Greta, that the State-Run Media and the Democrat Party will go a long way in telling us who they are most afraid of. And I don\u2019t think they\u2019re afraid of Mike Huckabee, because they never talk about him. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re afraid of Mitt Romney much, although if he surfaces, they\u2019ll go after his religion again. But they\u2019re trying to destroy Sarah Palin. They\u2019re literally trying to destroy, not just her career, but her reputation. Now, if they\u2019re not worried about Sarah Palin, why do this? I think they, the Democrats, are telling us who right now they are most afraid of, who they think can beat Obama. It\u2019s not hard to understand why. You covered Palin a lot during the campaign. Largest crowds on the Republican side, the most enthusiasm. People were revved up and fired up, in some cases even more than Obama rallies. And the Obama rallies were just cult people. They were just showing up to be part of the story. They didn\u2019t care what Obama was saying. It\u2019s just he was Obama. Sarah Palin was exciting people on substance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, to illustrate my point about the media and their fear of Sarah Palin, let\u2019s go to MSNBC Live. The anchor, Carlos Watson, was speaking with the White House correspondent Norah O\u2019Donnell and the Financial Times\u2019 Chrystia Freeland about Governor Palin. They had this exchange.<\/p>\n

WATSON: We talked in the nineties a good deal about the ‘angry white male\u2019 and ‘angry white men.\u2019 Instead of the face of that maybe being a Rush Limbaugh, that the face of it could become a Sarah Palin. Interesting to me. What\u2019s…? Uhhh, what\u2019s your take on her political opportunities in the near term?<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: No doubt! Yesterday these lines were tough. They would never make it in a general election campaign, but to her supporters, it was exactly the kind of political red meat that people love. It\u2019s the kind of red meat that her supporters love. It\u2019s the kind of red meat that has gained her some 13,000 people that have made small donations that have gotten — helped her bank this more than a million dollars. So, you betcha, she\u2019s got a political future! You betcha she\u2019s going to be out there traveling around.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now they\u2019re starting to make fun of her. ‘You betcha, you betcha.\u2019 They\u2019re clearly worried, and reviving the ‘angry white…\u2019 Once again another prediction I made. We have a black president and racism is going to be exacerbated. It\u2019s not gonna get better. It\u2019s not gonna go away. We\u2019re not going to get rid of our original sin. I said all that during the campaign, and now look. Now she\u2019s an angry white woman. Now they\u2019re bringing her race into this, replacing me as the ‘angry white guy,\u2019 which, of course, was a myth. It\u2019s just how they tried to characterize people that were opposing them who have success. So if you listen to them, they will tell you who they\u2019re really afraid of by who they try to destroy, who they criticize, who they keep talking about. And they\u2019re worried about her, and making fun of her and so forth. It\u2019s going to be interesting to see all this fallout.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, four years ago the angriest white man in America was Howard Dean. Today the angriest white man in America is Chris Matthews. And they\u2019re both Democrats. What\u2019s the point? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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