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RUSH: Now, the Rush Limbaugh primary. This is Mark Halperin. Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, they are authors, they\u2019re journalists. And we like them here. I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand. Halperin has been everywhere — ABC, well, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s been at CBS or NBC, but he\u2019s been at ABC, been around for a long time. He\u2019s an analyst, he\u2019s journalist, he\u2019s a good liberal, does it all. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s got a new gig. He and Heilemann follow candidates around during a campaign, and they learn all kinds of exciting stuff. They learn really inside stuff during the campaign, and they don\u2019t use it. They wait until after the election and they put all of that that they learned in a book. It comes out months after the campaign, months after it might actually be useful to the voting public. It\u2019s a new technique. Well, I don\u2019t know how new, but it\u2019s becoming more popularized. <\/p>\n

And these books that these guys have written have become somewhat popular, so Bloomberg gave \u2019em a TV show, and the name of the TV show is called With All Due Respect. Cookie will go anywhere she can to find video since I have this ban on MSNBC. So this is one place we get it. CNN is another place we get it. It\u2019s not that we\u2019re showing favoritism to Heilemann and Halperin. It\u2019s just that our choices are limited. CBS, NBC, CBS, but I mean the nightly news, there\u2019s not much. I mean, the stuff that\u2019s happening there is old news whenever it does happen. So if we\u2019re gonna have audio of liberalism, it\u2019s gonna happen on CNN or this place, maybe C-SPAN sometimes. <\/line><\/p>\n

Last night on Bloomberg TV With All Due Respect, Mark Halperin spoke with his co-host Heilemann about the 2016 presidential race, the primary elections. And this is the conversation starter from Halperin to Heilemann.<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: There are a lot of primaries for those who want to run in 2016. There is the New Hampshire primary, the Steve King primary, the Rush Limbaugh primary, the BuzzFeed primary. So, John, of all the Republicans who are gonna run in 2016, which one or ones have a chance to win the pop culture TV primary?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s another primary. So you got the Rush Limbaugh primary, you got the New Hampshire primary, Steve King primary is Iowa, and then there is the pop culture TV primary, and here\u2019s what Heilemann said in response.<\/p>\n

HEILEMANN: One of the things that we\u2019ve noted in the past is that past presidents — Barack Obama, George Bush, Bill Clinton — could all do Monday Night Football, could all do Saturday Night Live, could all do Oprah. There\u2019s not a single Republican in that league. I don\u2019t see anyone who can play at the level of our last three presidents in the pop culture realm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now, put Bush in there? Bush in the pop culture victory column? They called Bush the dumbest guy in office. He was a cowboy, he was a hick, he was a hayseed. Bush, Oprah? Bush could do Saturday Night Live? Bush could do Oprah? We know Clinton and Obama — but this is interesting to me because this is — (interruption) that\u2019s right, but that was before the 2000 election, right? Yeah, okay, that\u2019s right. He did Oprah. Okay, take it back. But he didn\u2019t do Oprah again. (interruption) Well, but the overall point is the pop culture primary, as these guys are calling it, and it\u2019s relevant. It\u2019s what we\u2019re all up against here. It\u2019s what Andrew Breitbart was trying to do when he started Breitbart.com<\/a>, was capture some of the pop culture for conservatism. Obama, Clinton could all do Monday Night Football. What? Anyway, I get their point. I\u2019m not sure I follow the examples. Halperin then said he agreed.<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: I agree. The fact is, none of \u2019em have a young, hip, New Media sensibility sense of humor, at least not that I have seen. You look at the three young senators, Cruz, Rubio, and Rand Paul, they are not laugh riots. You might think, well, who cares about that primary? That primary matters not just for reaching young voters, but it sends a signal to the public, if you\u2019ve got a sense of humor. The other person we didn\u2019t mention who can win that primary, Hillary Clinton. She\u2019s already proven she can do it.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: This is just too much. There\u2019s the automatic inclusion, liberals are just automatically included in the pop culture. Hillary Clinton is one of the biggest dryballs to ever come down the pike. Hillary Clinton is as far away from funny and humorous as anybody I can imagine. Hillary Clinton is Nurse Ratched. What in the world is funny about Nurse Ratched? I mean, even that Arkansas broad beam laugh that she has. Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha. There\u2019s nothing funny about the woman. There\u2019s nothing hip, except her hips. There\u2019s nothing cool. She gets automatically included in that simply \u2019cause she\u2019s a liberal Democrat. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why she didn\u2019t track better against Obama, if she\u2019s the youth veto, the humor vote, the comedy vote. So there\u2019s the comedy primary. There\u2019s the humor primary. There\u2019s the pop culture primary. And isn\u2019t it interesting, there\u2019s not a single Republican that these guys can think of that could make people laugh, but, boy, Hillary Clinton, what a laugh riot she is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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