Posted on 01/13/2014 3:15:11 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Can I share with you something? This whole Chris Christie business. I said that when he first got out of trouble, it was noticeable to me that none of the other wildebeests came to his defense, other RINOs. He was just left to sink or swim on his own, and none of the Democrats that supposedly like him and have worked with him and Obama -- nobody -- rushed to his aide. Which is classic, by the way. But there's something else about this.
If you watched the Sunday shows yesterday -- which I didn't. I get reports, transcripts, that kind of thing. I can't watch them anymore. I tried watching cable news the other night and I just went nuts. It just makes me mad. It's so much out of the... It's sophomoric. Anyway, you noticed all of the Republicans who are saying, "Yeah, he's in the clear IF he's telling the truth." The number of Republicans who are saying, "Oh, yeah, everything's cool, man. That was a great press conference -- IF he's telling the truth." What does that tell you? It tells you that there's some doubt.
I mean, all those Republican -- it's a lot of them -- are with that caveat.
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RUSH: We announced on Friday pretty close to the end of the program that there was going to be a release of documents surrounding Bridgegate. It's 907 pages. 907 pages of documents on Bridgegate? What in the name...? I mean, how is that even possible, when nobody knew anything? All there was was that e-mail from the woman, Mary Kay... I keep forgetting her last name. "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," and whoever got the e-mail knew exactly what that meant, and they did it.
There were 907 pages. Now the Feds -- get this, if you haven't heard. The Feds are looking into the money that Christie got in New Jersey for Hurricane Sandy relief to find out if there is a connection between any of that money and Bridgegate or anything else. I sit here and I continue to be really shocked that the Republican Party thought an hour and 45 minute press conference could wipe up a this away.
That's the kind of naivete I had in year two of my program. I actually believed at one time that the media was interested in the truth and that when they were asking me questions it was because they wanted to know what I really thought. Thus, I actually thought I had a chance to persuade them of things, whatever it be, about me or my take on an issue or ideology. I actually thought that, and then when that didn't happen -- when I saw myself misquoted, taken out of context on purpose -- I got mad.
I said, "These people weren't even listening to what I was saying," because I have good manners. I was raised to be polite. I was raised to answer people's questions. It took me awhile to understand that the media don't care what I think or say, that that's not why they want to talk to me. The story's written before the interview. I'll give you example. H.R. can tell you the number of requests from television -- Good Morning America, Today show, you name it, national and local -- about Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
"Oh, we would love to talk to Rush about his children's book," and of course the publisher is just dying for me to do it. "You gotta do some TV. I mean, every author does TV. I said, "I am not going to accept any of these." Why not? Because they don't want to talk to me about the book. They want to take the occasion to smear me on other things that they think they haven't had a chance to smear me on. Take your pick. If anything controversial happens.
The book is just what they will tell me they want to talk about, and there might in fact be a couple questions about it. But that's not why they want to talk to me. I learned this 23 years ago. I learned, especially in my case, and I think every Republican ought to have this attitude, is why I'm sharing this. I don't mean to make this about me. But I know for a fact that when the media wants to talk to me about my book, that they don't.
And using experience guided by intelligence, I know what they would love to do, the vast majority of them -- of course there are exceptions. The vast majority would love to do hit pieces, with my participation. So I'm sitting here saying, "Why do these Beltway Republicans not also get this, when they have experienced it themselves, when they have seen how Republicans rebuke conservatives, whoever, are treated?" You know, John Podhoretz in the New York Post over the weekend had a piece.
I think it was Podhoretz. Yeah. It was. It was a piece in which he was attempting to educate his readers into understanding that it was not just media bias that is causing the media to drop everything and try to expose Christie as a crook in Bridgegate and why they left Obama alone in the IRS scandal. Podhoretz says a lot of people don't understand... This is his opinion, by the way, and I don't totally subscribe to it, but there's a couple of elements to it that are correct.
He says the reason why the media is going to the end of the earth to destroy Christie and why the IRS scandal is no big deal is not liberal versus conservative so much. It's personal. They are Obama. I've made this point. They all go to the same schools. They all party together. I mean, when the press looks at Obama, they see themselves. David Gregory sees himself, and he's not a crook. F. Chuck Todd looks at Obama, sees himself. He's a member of the DC establishment in good standing.
He's card-carrying, goes to the right restaurants, goes to the right cocktail parties, knows the right people, went to the same schools. They're one and the same. This is Podhoretz's point, that they can't even conceive that Obama's a crook, 'cause they're not, in their minds. They're all part of the same clique, and Obama happens to be the most popular guy in the clique, and there's no way. So if something happened the IRS, it's 'cause Obama didn't care, or people were doing it without his knowledge, like it woulda happened with them.
Podhoretz's point is there's no ideology to it. There's bias, but it's bias based on the fact that they're friends and associates, and they come from the same place, they go to the same places, and they're the same people. Christie's not one of them. Try as hard as he might by embracing Obama a week before the election and doing this, he's not one of them. A, he's a Republican so he can't be one of them. But B, look at him.
"He's out of control, no discipline, he's a bully, does all this stuff." He's not one of them. Now, the fact that they are all liberals and Christie's not is also a factor, and I think it's more of a factor than Podhoretz does, but Podhoretz still has a point. The purpose of this is not to excuse the media for not going after Obama on the IRS. The point here is, I don't understand why Republicans don't get this. Like, you can look at all these Republican consultants and advisors who thought Christie hit a home run with that press conference.
"Man, he did it right! He came at it, and he didn't hide, and he took it all on himself, and he was factually honest and he was nice and he was forthcoming and he was engaging. He was charismatic." That's not gonna impress them. Christie can't impress them, is the point. No Republican can. We're not one of them -- and the sad thing is, I think that attitude that all you have to do to get the media off your back is please them and it establishes that those people are already occupying a position in their own minds where they're inferior and where they're defensive and where they need to prove themselves and where they need to make the other side like 'em.
I learned two years into my career that doing that's not possible.
You cannot become one of them when you're not one of them, and you can't make them like you. Membership in that club, it's really strict and unique, and you don't get to admit yourself. Did they not see what happened with McCain? McCain was loved and adored until he becomes a candidate, then he becomes a dirty old man kicking kids off his front yard. So that's what amazes me. What amazes me is after all of this, after that hour and a half press conference they thought a home run had been hit and they thought the media minds had been changed.
I'll guarantee you, they're sitting there stunned that this investigation is still underway and that the Feds are now involved, 'cause they thought that Christie had succeeded. They thought Christie knocked it out of the park, when it didn't matter whether he knocked out of the park or not. This is the only guy beating Hillary in the polls, and they're gonna go destroy this guy whatever it takes. No matter what he says he believes, no matter policies of Obama's he signs on to or agrees with or, you know, doesn't join the Obamacare lawsuit, he cannot buy their affection.
When will they go after Jeb Bush, Karl Rove, Lindsey Graham, Paul Ryan, John McCain, John Boehner or some other RINO? I enjoy the Democrats spending their time, money and energy taking our trash out for us.
“How do you like your new friends Chris?”
Precisely! He wanted Obama for his best friend, and now he HAS Obama as his best friend. Oddly enough, unless you understand liberals, Obama isn’t going to help his ‘best friend Christie’.
” “Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?” said the frog.
“Ahh...,” crooned the scorpion, “Because you see, once you’ve taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!”
So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river...
...Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and...a deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.
“You fool!” croaked the frog, “Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?”
The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog’s back.
“I could not help myself. It is my nature.”
I think it was a defensive leak and I’m just amazed that everybody is putting so much energy into it when we need to be focusing on 2014 elections.
Yeah, sort of like Arlen Specter. They coddled him, told him how great he was and about how great life was going to be on the other side and once he became a Dem they totally ignored him and kept none of their promises of committee chairmanships and the like.
Hey, McCain, Christie and all you other Rinos, the Dems and the mainstream media are like Islamists - it doesn't matter how nice you are to them they are still going to hate and try to destroy you. Why can't these idiot Rinos figure this out?
Yes, I think the timing was just happenstance. Things just broke when they did. There was nothing calculated involved in that. It occurred, and taste of Republican blood in the water was just too irresistable to them.
They would have probably preferred to feast on Christie’s whale-blubber in 2016, but you’re talking about rabid pack animals, where instinct kicks in.
Then you have scumbags like Rove who had the audacity to think that conservatives are going to get behind Christie because he's being attacked. Are you kidding me. Rove wants the same conservatives he and the establishment despises to save Christie's bacon, while he and the elites stick their fingers in the air and see which way the wind's blowing before issuing their fatwah.
Thanks Kaslin, thanks Rush, and thanks Alberta’s Child.
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A rather pleasant surprise to have the MSM doing the dirty work and getting Christie out of the way long before 2016.
Nonsense. They are warming up for 2014 this fall. That is what Christie attack is about.
To demonize Republicans so they can keep the Senate.
I wished everyone would stop speculating as if he was going to run for President in 2016
Rush gets it right. I wonder if Crispy has gotten it yet?
Christie may have what it takes to get elected in NJ, but he clearly has no understanding of the broader nationwide base of the Republican party. Had he had that understanding he would not have alienated the base, and they would now be defending him. He’s standing alone out there, and probably doesn’t have a clue why.
I'm not sad over Christie's fall from grace. He is literally and figuratively a "load". But the way the media has descended upon him is breath taking. The collaboration between the media (traffic-gate) and the Feds (Sandy funds) is pure evil. We saw this sort of thing when Sarah Palin was the VP candidate.
The power the media wields is amazing.
Jebbie looks bad, doesn’t he? And you are right with your slogan, but I wonder if our little uninformed Republican primary voters will ever understand.
But Crist in FL thinks he won’t get the Specter treatment. And Arlen’s not here to explain to Charlie.
Balderdash. Its more kabuki theatre for public consumption. Light and fury signifying nothing.
Not as long as he has an "R" after his name! No siree bob!
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