{"id":33953,"date":"2009-11-13T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:40:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:40:34","slug":"mark_halperin_swerves_into_truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/11\/13\/mark_halperin_swerves_into_truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Halperin Swerves Into Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Now, you gotta hear this sound bite. Mark Halperin from TIME Magazine (he\u2019s their editor-at-large) was on with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, on her MSNBC show. And she said, &#8216;Mark, you recently traveled outside of Milwaukee under the radar. Sarah Palin went to Milwaukee. Nobody knew it. No cameras that most people know about. What kind of crowd? What was the excitement there for Sarah Palin in Milwaukee?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>HALPERIN: A big event at the state fair grounds, about 4,000 people who paid &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>MITCHELL: Four THOUSAND people! A week ago this was?<\/p>\n<p>HALPERIN: This was like a Friday night, I think, one week ago. They showed up really early. I got there three hours early, and I was not the first person in line, by any means. The line stretched over half a mile, and they love her. I\u2019ve never seen anything like this in my career. The gap between&#8230; We say casually, &#8216;She has support amongst the grassroots.\u2019 She truly does, and we\u2019ll see it on the book tour next week. People at the grassroots love her personally. They want her to run for president. The gap between that and what people in this city say, people we know say about her prospects couldn\u2019t be wider.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, in this sound bite, Mark Halperin swerves, stumbles upon the truth. Sarah Palin represents the disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. Now, I don\u2019t want to take anything away from Sarah Palin, but 4,000 people who paid 30 bucks. He\u2019s never seen anything like that? He\u2019s never seen anything like that? Has a never been to a Sean Hannity freedom concert? Does he not know what happens out there when conservatives get together and rally? Has he never been to a Rush to Excellence Tour stop? Has he never heard about one of those? Two thousand in Washington! It was capacity. Right where he lives. Ditto Detroit, all over the country. I don\u2019t do them very often, but, you know, Hannity, Levin, the guys are out there. Beck goes out and draws crowds all over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061939897?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061939897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>And Sarah Palin, I\u2019m not taking anything away from her, because he\u2019s right: This book tour starts next week and Washington is going to be stunned. The one thing he\u2019s really right about is they don\u2019t get it. They haven\u2019t the slightest clue how disconnected they are from the base of this country. They have no idea in Washington how disconnected they, in the media are from not just grassroots people, but the people who make this country work. Why do conservative books sell so well? Do they ignore that? No, they don\u2019t ignore it, because over at the Huffing and Puffington Post, they want the New York Times to set up a conservative-only list because the lib books are getting shellacked. <\/p>\n<p>There are two reasons that a Democrat is in the White House today. Well, maybe three, but I\u2019ll focus on two of them. We had the wrong candidate in 2008, and we had a Democrat candidate who just pulled the biggest scam on the people &#8212; the innocent people; the people that are not actively, daily involved in politics. He pulled the biggest scam on them ever, making them think that he was something never before seen: A messiah that was going to come and get rid of all the angst, get rid of all the arguments, get rid of all the partisanship. We\u2019re going to lower the sea levels. We\u2019re going to be loved and we\u2019re going to have jobs! <\/p>\n<p>Everybody is going to be rich and there\u2019s not going to be any poverty and so forth. And of course who wouldn\u2019t want all that? And you have some guy with some supposed skill at oratory, that\u2019s actually reading a prompter who was able to make that pitch. The third reason is, the Bush administration just refused to defend itself. I mentioned that to Governor Palin in my interview with her yesterday after this show for the newsletter, because we were talking about this. In her book she has the same question that I\u2019ve always had: How do you respond and when do you respond to baseless, totally fabricated, made-up criticism? You know, we had a discussion about it, and she said something. I don\u2019t remember specifically what it was. <\/p>\n<p>My reaction to it was, &#8216;We weren\u2019t helped by the fact that we had all kinds of people in this country willing to go to the mattresses over this, but the administration and leader of the party just did not want to get political, because Bush felt that it was lowering the prestige of the office to respond to all these attacks and critiques,\u2019 and so therefore all the lies were allowed to stand. The media and the Democrat party did a pretty good job of ginning up even more people who hate this country, who think this country is guilty. Because people at the highest levels of the Republican Party were not refuting it. Their strategy was, &#8216;The story will last a day and move on to other things.\u2019 But if it takes 4,000 people at a Sarah Palin rally for these guys to understand their disconnect, so be it &#8212; and she is going to set records with her book sales. I think she probably already has. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Mark Halperin was blown away by Sarah Palin in Milwaukee a week ago: 4,000 people paid 30 bucks each to see her. They weren\u2019t any cameras there so the Drive-Bys didn\u2019t know about it. So I thought to myself, &#8216;Okay, what is it that impresses about this? Is it the 4,000 people or is it that they paid 30 bucks?\u2019 And I started to ask myself, &#8216;Wait a minute, now. Did he not see the tea parties that happened in Washington where he lives? Did he not see those?\u2019 And I ran the question by Snerdley. &#8216;Oh, they didn\u2019t see those. They didn\u2019t see these town halls, didn\u2019t see the tea parties. They don\u2019t watch Fox. They watch MSNBC, CNN, but they don\u2019t watch Fox. The only thing they saw at the tea parties was a picture of a guy outside carrying a gun,\u2019 and I guess that\u2019s true. 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