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RUSH: To the audio sound bites, NPR, All Things Considered, during a report about the 2010 midterm elections in Ohio, the coanchors Robert Siegel and David Greene have this exchange about your host.<\/p>\n

SIEGEL: Here\u2019s an oddity that I heard about last week. Do you remember what Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Operation Chaos was?<\/p>\n

GREENE: I do. How could I forget it? I was actually covering the Clinton campaign at that time, Robert, and that was when Rush Limbaugh was out there telling even Republican voters to get involved in the Democratic primary, go vote for Clinton so he could prolong that fight between Clinton and Barack Obama as long as possible.<\/p>\n

SIEGEL: Well, it turns out in Ohio, if you vote in a primary you become registered as a voter in that party. So now, Democratic canvassers going door-to-door keep on turning up the odd Republican who\u2019s registered as a Democrat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) The lingering effects of Operation Chaos still screwing up the pollsters in Ohio. They continued with this.<\/p>\n

SIEGEL: In fact, one of the people who wanted to run as a Republican in that district, Kathy Eshelman, lost the nomination when it was pointed out that she was a registered Democrat. These are the Operation Chaos voters from two years ago. She told me today that she cast a vote to try to prevent Barack Obama\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

GREENE: Rush\u2019s legacy lives on.<\/p>\n

SIEGEL: Indeed. And that D next to her name stands a lot more for Dittohead than for Democrat.<\/p>\n

GREENE: Interesting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Well, they\u2019re NPR people. I mean there\u2019s no malice, just reasonable intelligent civil discourse. We are, after all, NPR. And at NPR we engage in pledge drives. Without your Pledge we cannot dust. NBC Nightly News Kelly O\u2019Donnell reporting on Christine O\u2019Donnell, Obama, and me.<\/p>\n

KELLY O\u2019DONNELL: Today, Rush Limbaugh said O\u2019Donnell\u2019s past is getting unfair scrutiny.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: We know more about Christine O\u2019Donnell right now than we know about Obama.<\/p>\n

KELLY O\u2019DONNELL: Today the president said the Tea Party should offer answers, not just anger.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The challenge, I think, for the Tea Party movement is to identify specifically what would you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. This is a straw dog. That\u2019s not what the Tea Party movement has to do. It\u2019s not incumbent upon the Tea Party movement to say what we\u2019re going to do even though we have definitive ideas. The Tea Party movement is a protest against what is happening, pure and simple. On the basis of that it\u2019s already known what the Tea Party wants to do. This is just an attempt to derail, ‘Okay, well, what do you stand for? What are you going to do?\u2019 The exact opposite of what you\u2019re doing, pal, pure and simple. We believe in the Constitution. ‘Well, give me some specific ideas.\u2019 We\u2019ll be glad to. The Tea Party has said what its intention is, and that\u2019s to stop Obama. That\u2019s the first thing that has to happen. You know, there\u2019s a new show up coming up on CNN, replacing John King USA. It\u2019s going to be called ‘Parker Spitzer.\u2019 It\u2019s Kathleen Parker, conservative columnist, with Eliot Spitzer, Client No. 9. I kid you not. <\/p>\n

You know, I\u2019m thinking of all of these young, ambitious anchors and reporters in television who are working in Oshkosh and Lincoln, Nebraska, St. Louis, Denver, Omaha, Columbia, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Sebastopol, California, San Luis Obispo, Chico, California, any number of media markets, and they\u2019re following the tried-and-true recipe. They are honing their craft trying to get better, working in the smaller media markets, going out and reporting the news, covering the police blotter stuff, covering the blood-and-guts stories, anchoring on the weekends, and then hoping someday to be hired at one of the networks or at CNN, maybe MSNBC, and then realize that it all is for naught because the pathway to a show on CNN is to have an ongoing relationship with sluts, with prostitutes and whores, after you have tried to bring down the Republicans in your state with phony, false charges while you\u2019re attorney general and governor. Then you run around, you become Client No. 9, a national joke, sex with your socks on, everybody learns about it, and who snaps you up but CNN. <\/p>\n

And you in Chico and Omaha and Denver say, ‘God, what do I have to do in order to advance in this business? Do I have to go out and have a relationship with prostitutes?\u2019 That\u2019s how you get a gig now in primetime at CNN. And then they pair Spitzer with Kathleen Parker, who is a conservative columnist, approved conservative, rubber stamp Washington Post conservative because she attacks conservatives. So now they\u2019re a new team and it\u2019s time to preview this show. They put \u2019em on last night on John King\u2019s America. Parker Spitzer is the name of the show, premieres October the 4th on CNN, and during a discussion about Obama, Parker and Spitzer have this exchange. This is what everybody\u2019s waiting for to debut October 4th on CNN.<\/p>\n

SPITZER: This is the issue of biting too many apples simultaneously. President Reagan, who was an amazing communicator, also had a very linear communication strategy, one issue at a moment. He was brilliant at it.<\/p>\n

PARKER: Right.<\/p>\n

SPITZER: And he didn\u2019t deal with health care and then foreign policy and then the Middle East and then let\u2019s get the Olympics and then a beer summit, all these other things, and health care. And so all these things that distract —<\/p>\n

PARKER: And not to mention attacking people who aren\u2019t even part of the Hill. I mean going after Rush Limbaugh. Yes, he is an influential radio host, but he\u2019s not part of the Republican Party to the extent that the president has suggested he is.<\/p>\n

SPITZER: Maybe the problem is that we, the public, need to cut him some slack.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who, me or Obama? That\u2019s your new team on CNN. Those of you anchors and reporters in the smaller media markets in the country who just — I mean, they have their dreams. Their dreams include working at CNN, and now what must they all think? And that exchange, that is a promo. This is supposed to make everybody want to tune in on October 4th to watch ‘Parker Spitzer\u2019 on CNN. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to hear something funny? Joy Behar on The View yesterday, about Christine O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n

BEHAR: Here\u2019s a girl who says that, you know, she didn\u2019t masturbate, she doesn\u2019t believe in masturbating, either, and she wants to make public policy about other people\u2019s sex lives. She\u2019s a witch who doesn\u2019t masturbate who has never had premarital sex. Why is she running for office?<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have your responsible, reasonable, tolerant, intelligent left, Joy Behar. They are just so jealous, they are just so jealous, they cannot stand it whatsoever. <\/p>\n

(playing of Client No. 9) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Coming next to CNN, October 4th. <\/p>\n

(continued playing of song) <\/p>\n

RUSH: You know if there\u2019s ever somebody that was wrongly named it\u2019s Joy Behar. There\u2019s no joy there. <\/p>\n

(continued playing of song) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Coming soon to CNN, October 4th, eight p.m., CNN. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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