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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That's what you think of when someone mentions a jet? Very revealing.
Dude you need analysis. Get back in the closet you sword swallower.
You would know.
It’s really turnabout, and therefore fair play. The Dems did that like crazy in 2000 and 2004. About time we learned how to street fight, since we’ve been in one for decades. Finally, we pick up a broken bottle and throw out the Marquis deQueensbury’s rule book. Good for us.
Ignored? LOL! Everyone is quoting him and you say he's being ignored?
You are a stupid fool and your classless comment about pain killers proves it...........
She is just jealous Hot Tabasco.
You use of fonts proves you don’t have much faith in what your are saying......LOL!
Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it!
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Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it!
www.AnySoldier.com
Vote against SOB McCain, even in the general election.
No pal, I wont. I call them as I see them. Any questions?
You’d think after this ... you would have decide to stop being an ass towards other Freepers you simply disagree with. I guess not.
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10/07/2007 8:54:36 PM PDT · by pax_et_bonum · 968 replies · 4,578+ views
Unfortunately, I remain unchanged.
It still irks me to see folks blindly follow a radio media guy.
Plus, I came out with several neat new scars. ;-)
Keep up that attitude and you’ll end up with more.
I've been knifed in a Tejano bar for mouthing off about Selena.
I'm used to it.
Yeah,I know what you mean. I knifed someone for the same thing.
A surprising number of those listeners are Democrats.
Besides, if Limbaugh was really able to sway the national consciousness in any significant fashion, Bill Clinton wouldn't have been elected and John McCain wouldn't have won the GOP nomination.
Rush is an entertainer. Not a leader. Not a policy guru. He can be a lot of fun, but in the end he's just an entertainer.
I disagree!
Hillary was expected to win Ohio.
If Limbaugh was able to influence the Texas election, it'd be the first time ever. Too bad he didn't decide to wield all that mighty power during the Republican primaries, telling his followers to vote for a true conservative. Oh, wait....
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