Posted on 03/07/2008 6:55:55 PM PST by Yosemitest
Don't Doubt the Limbaugh Effect
March 5, 2008
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RUSH: Last night on DNCTV's Decision '08, political analyst Norah O'Donnell reported this about the exit poll data.
RUSH: But CNN had a little bit different take on their Election Center last night. Soledad O'Brien and their political analyst Bill Schneider had this exchange about the effect in Texas.
SCHNEIDER: Mmm-hmm?
O'BRIEN: What did you find?
SCHNEIDER: Nooooot much. (laughter) Only 9% of the Texas Democratic primary voters were self-described Republicans and they voted for Barack Obama, 53... 46%, almost half, voted for Hillary Clinton so maybe that was some influence from Mr. Limbaugh.
RUSH: But not much.
So PMSNBC and CNN disagree with their numbers. Then on PBS last night, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Amy Walter of the Hotline took a neutral position. She's not sure about the Limbaugh Effect.
RUSH: Hmm. Hmmmm. Sounds like the conclusion here is rather unmistakable.
Moving on now to Chris Matthews, Election '08, PMSNBC; here is an apoplectic Chris Matthews describing to a T why we needed Hillary to win in this primary to continue.
VOICE: Mmm-hmm!
MATTHEWS: -- in a state you absolutely, positively have to carry?
It's not good news to spend seven weeks in Pennsylvania blasting each other, if you're Democrats. This country's in a rut on the war in Iraq and pending wars elsewhere in the Middle East, the economy! Everything! We're in a rut! We can't fix anything, whether it's Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security! We can't fix our health care system! Nothing's done since '65 when we did the civil rights bill.
People want something done. Will that something get done if we have an election that bogs down in Pennsylvania with seven weeks of Democrats killing each other?
RUSH: Aside from the gibberish about nothing getting done in this country, does that not make my point (laughs) of what we are trying to accomplish here? This is the last thing the Democrats wanted to see, and they're going to have to see it,
and it's not just Pennsylvania. Forget Pennsylvania, forget April 22nd. You are talking June the 7th, Puerto Rico and beyond!
Now this business about "nothing having gotten" done since the Civil Rights Act.
Here's the problem. Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, the health care system:
RUSH: I rest my case!
Carl Bernstein, of Woodward and Bernstein fame, talking to a Clinton strategerist.
Pete in Woodbridge, Virginia. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Just fine, Rush. How you doing?
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: There's at least eight or nine different reasons for voting for Hillary, and you've enumerated some of them for almost two hours. First of all, fear is Hillary's most effective message against Obama, and that's also McCain's message. So as long as she's running her 3 a.m. ad, she's helping to make McCain's point about the importance of experience and national security experience.
RUSH: That's right. This is actually a great ad for McCain.
CALLER: Oh, absolutely.
In addition, the Democrats should be thanking you.
This screening process really helps them to ensure that they aren't going to have a Gary Hart or a Michael Dukakis running against McCain in the fall.
As far as on our side, it extends the time, as you said earlier, for Hillary to get the press to scrutinize him.
RUSH: Well, not only that, but there's another thing that's possible. I don't know how likely it is. But Senator McCain...
I heard Karl Rove last night. Karl Rove was doing analysis on Fox, and he had a good point. He said,
"I'm going to do whatever I can. If he wants me to campaign against him, if it will help him, that's what I'm going to do."
"Well, where are you going to campaign for him? Where are you not going to campaign for him?"
McCain was standing there, you know, asking the reporters for the next question, and the questions always went to President Bush.
President Bush can help him with fundraising, and I'm sure that was on the table today when they had their luncheon. But this is an opportunity here for McCain to actually solidify who he is because he's not going to have to run any contests against Huckabee anymore. He's not going to have to go out and get votes and get delegates in any of these remaining states
-- and then on the other side of this, everybody is talking about the momentum that Hillary has.
The momentum to where?
You've got Wyoming, the Wyoming caucus this Saturday. I think Obama expects to lose that.
You have got Mississippi next Tuesday. Obama's probably going to win that going away.
But, yeah, Hillary may have some momentum, but to where? The next big state is not for six weeks! Whatever momentum she has is not going to sustain her that long. So she's going to have to try to keep the momentum alive by doing exactly what Carl Bernstein said, and that is, they gotta mess Obama up. That's Carl Bernstein's word.
My word is they gotta bloody him up -- politically, of course. Don't misunderstand.
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RUSH: Do you want to hear the babes on The View discuss this? Do you want to hear what they have to say? I literally marvel, I really do, at the obtuseness, the dim-wittedness, the no "there" there-ism of some of these women.
Who do we have here? We've got Elisabeth Hasselbeck, we've got Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd, discussing Hillary's chances in the primary voting. This is yesterday, this is Tuesday morning. And Hasselbeck says,
GOLDBERG: Is that why he's encouraging people to vote for her? Because he's saying that voting for Hillary will unsettle the Democratic Party, and that can only help Republicans.
SHEPHERD: Yeah, he said,
HASSELBECK: You know, I don't agree with him, just so you know, like I'm not --
BEHAR: The thing about Limbaugh, I don't totally trust anything Limbaugh says, because -- I worked with him, right?
GOLDBERG: Did you?
BEHAR: Yes. I know him. And after -- when I was at the radio station with him, Clinton won. And he was so happy, because he could now be funnier on his radio show. It has nothing to do with real patriotism or whatever he's talking about. It's about his show.
HASSELBECK: So he feels as though he'd have more ammo against Clinton--
BEHAR: Yeah, he has more fun with Hillary. That's all he cares about.
RUSH: You know, Joy Behar saw me every day, and, folks, I do know about you, we were miserable.
I don't want to go through that again.
I do not want to live through the misery.
I mean, to say that we wanted Clinton to win because it was more fun, that I was happy when Clinton won?
And then this poor old Elisabeth Hasselbeck is the conservative on this program and is going out of her way -- it's pathetic. This program has the potential to be doing more damage to women than Oprah is doing. Good Lord, it's insulting. There have to be executives at ABC that understand the literal ignorance that's being broadcast on their network signals each and every day. I guess they know their audience.
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ONLY about 20 MILLION VOTERS a day.
Dude, you’re an idiot. Go back to DU.
At the convension in Denver, the republicans need some smart people to pretend to be Democrats to mix with the crowds and try to stir up hostility if Hillary steals the election. I was thinking that maybe Freerepublic people should do this but I hate to advocate it since every website has it's 1% following of lunatics who will just draw attention to themselves and blow it. The republicans need some smart people like the "Do my laundry" people Hillary used to win New Hampshire.
I hope the republicans are busy with their plans right now to play as dirty as possible. I like to think that Carl Rove gave Rush a call and told him to have is followers vote for Hillary in Texas. I just hope they are smart and have this thing thought out.
And yes, Richard Nixon was cool. Time for more Rat F%@*^ing.
You know that phrase was created by a liberal columnist from the West coast and that he is pointing out the hypocracy of the left when he plays the song, don’t you?
No one else will play that song because no one else wants to point out that hypocracy like Rush for fear of criticism (like the misinformed criticism coming from you).
Once again you comment without knowing what you are talking about - didn’t even read the post.
And I see you are getting your inspiration from Tom Harkin now.
He was touting the National Enquirer stories as absolute truth about Rush some years ago.
YOU’VE NEVER LISTNED TO RUSH. OTHERWISE YOU WOULD KNOW THAT EVERYTHING YOU’RE SAYING IS RUBBISH. YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT LIMBAUGH.
SHAME ON YOU, FAKER.
IOWs you have no talent to sell. Bwahahaaaa. What a maroon.
You’ve got guts, I’ll say that. To come on to a forum filled with dittoheads and criticize their hero. They’ll be coming out of the woodwork everywhere to put you down. Good luck. :)
I’m rather lukewarm on Rush myself, though sometimes he does make observations that are spot on. Rush sure knows how to stir up controversy, and the guy’s been racking up the big $$$ by doing it. His past support of the Dubai ports deal and big corporations (when businesses are implementing unfair practices) had me turning him off a few times, but I’ll turn him on when nothing else is on the air. His voice is certainly less annoying than Hannity or that babe, Laura Ingraham.
If anything, Rush is entertaining. Like Savage, he can be fun to listen to at times.
“Name one person. ONE. Honestly now. Who does more for conservatism?”
Dunno if Coulter does MORE for conservatism, but she sure knows how to stir it up. Not to mention that she’s easier on the eyes than El Rushbo. And I think no one generates media frenzy better than the blonde one.
Actors are overpaid.
Limbaugh is a radio actor.
Good God, man. Michael Jackson has his own personal jet too. Is that how you judge the character of someone?
*****Name one person. ONE. Honestly now. Who does more for conservatism?*****
Check out Glenn Beck!
He is on both radio and tv, can you believe CNN.
He is very conservative, funny, and doesn’t have as much fluff as Rush.
and any time the RNC as for funds,
just print
and send them one of these.
Dude shut up.
... appreciative of free speech.
You are keeping me and hundreds of others very busy.
I make it a rule never to discuss any of my jets on a public forum.
Your preoccupation with long cylindrical objects is quite telling, though.
What does Limbaugh do? He talks.
Talk is noise. It does nothing.
Clowns make noise.
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