RUSH: You know it is a good question: Why would Hillary Rodham Clinton grt out of this race tonight if there is this Michelle Obama bomb of a tape that's going to drop somewhere soon, sometime soon down the line, and of course Ickes and McAuliffe are out there, "She's not going to quit tonight. This AP story is wrong. She will concede the delegates," whatever that means. We will know by virtue of what she says tonight in her speech, we will know if she believes that there is some damaging drop on Michelle (My Belle) Obama to happen sometime soon. I'll tell you something else that gives credence to the rumor, and these kind of rumors, this has been going around for so long, Beckel's right, it's hard to ignore this, it's been out there for so long. They still make me uncomfortable. But when you look, Obama quits his church this past weekend after Father Pfleger goes nuts in there. This could all be part of the timing because they know this thing is going to come to, this tape, whatever it is, Michelle Obama and whitey.
So we'll just have to wait and see. But I think Hillary's speech tonight will give us an indication, because she's been hanging around in this thing for one reason -- well, more than one -- but one of the major reasons she's been hanging around is hoping Obama would screw up or that somebody would have something on Obama that they would drop. The Clintons don't have it. They would have used it by now. So somebody else has it. Supposedly this tape is in the hands of Republican operatives. If it were in the hands of Republican operatives, I would wait and drop this thing after the Democrat convention. I would wait 'til Obama's got it sewed up. So we'll just have to see. Too many unanswered questions about it.
