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Credit Hillary With All That Is Good

November 14, 2006




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RUSH: I have been thinking about a problem that we all know exists, ladies and gentlemen. How do we get the media, the Drive-By Media, to report successes? Not just presidential successes, but successes in the country that are owing the Republican leadership? How do we do this? There is an opportunity now, and I want you to follow me on this. Some of you will find this screwy. I assure you it's not. For these next two years, the media cannot do the standard thing that they do when the Republicans are in power across the board, and that is really paint news as horrible. The economy stinks. Rumsfeld stinks. Rice stinks. Unemployment numbers sink. Nothing's good.

When Republicans are running the Congress and had Bush in the White House, everything was bad. They can't do that now, and we see evidence of it all over the place. Core inflation drops by record amount. Wal-Mart profit up, upbeat on holiday. All of this news that we've had lately: Afghanistan, they're happier than they've ever been over there. You've seen it. You've seen the trends. The Drive-By Media simply cannot paint a wholly negative picture the next two years because there are Democrats running the House of Representatives, or will be, and Democrats running the US Senate, plus they have to promote Hillary in '08. So in order to do that...

I mean, they can't promote Hillary by ripping the country to shreds. It's going to be a problem for them. It really will. So I think one of the ways that we could illustrate what their objective is, at least on this program, is to credit Hillary herself for all these successes, and we can go back in time and give her credit for things that have happened -- for example -- well, this is all based on this. How does this president ever, with this biased media, ever get credit for any of his accomplishments? He doesn't, does he? He hasn't gotten credit for one accomplishment. So here's what we say. Well, George W. Bush became president the same year that Hillary Rodham became a senator, and look at all of the wonderful things that have happened since Mrs. Clinton became a senator.

So many things have happened, and she hasn't gotten hardly any credit for it at all because the media's been busy trying to destroy Bush by painting all the news as bad. So in order to break through with the drive-bys, we have to do it this way. Hillary Clinton's decision to liberate Afghanistan, and Hillary's decision to liberate Iraq, brought freedom to some 50 million Muslims. This is how we can report the story and get it covered in the Drive-By Media if Hillary is credited for all these successes. There hasn't been one terrorist attack on US soil since Hillary Clinton was elected to the Senate. Hillary Clinton's decision to cut taxes brought an economic recovery and a boom and then prosperity to a nation that had been crippled by a dot-com crash, a recession, and a costly attack on our homeland.

Hillary Clinton bravely attempted to reform Social Security. She had the courage to challenge the third rail of politics, and even though she didn't succeed history will vindicate her wisdom. Hillary Clinton reduced the cost of prescription drugs to seniors, got no credit whatsoever. In fact, was ripped to shreds for trying this. Hillary Clinton was labeled the dumbest politician in our history, but she proved herself to be smarter than those with the smart label. Hillary Clinton came to Washington and immediately set out on changing the tone. The list is limitless here because there's all kinds of good news that's happened. If we just credit Hillary Clinton for it, we can perhaps illustrate, -- because sometimes you have to go through the back door with people to get them to understand things because they're bent over forward looking at something. You have to come up from behind. When you go up and tell people, "Yeah, you know Bush did..."

"Bush? I hate Bush!"

"Do you know how great things in this country have been since Hillary Clinton was elected?"

"Yeah, look at how the economy is going!"

The objective is not to get them to praise Hillary. The objective is to get people to understand that there are really good things that have happened.




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Read the Background Material...

(USAToday: Wal-Mart profit rises 11.5% Retailer vows focus on discounts)
(AP: Core Inflation Drops by Record Amount)
(AP: unemployment rate drops to 5-year low)


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