Rush: Old Media Trying to Dictate a Beatable GOP Nominee
Rush Limbaugh called out Old Media for playing favorites in the GOP presidential race. He was, as usual, dead-on correct.
Audio is at Hot Air.
The transcript, which will remain available at Limbaugh’s site until next Friday, is here.
Here is the first portion of what he had to say (bold is mine):
Let me just tell you what’s happening. It is absurd and you’re going to have to really gut it up here because the Drive-By Media is doing everything it can to disqualify the true conservatives on the Republican side. They’re saying, “Romney, he can’t win. If he loses Michigan, he’s done.” They said that about Romney in Iowa, they said that about Romney in New Hampshire. Now Fred Thompson apparently scored. Did you watch it last night, Mr. Snerdley? Fred Thompson was just fabulous, and people said, “Where has this been? All of this time, where’s this been?” And I can’t answer that, but now the Drive-Bys are saying, “Well, yeah, he was pretty good last night, but it’s too late.” We’ve had two states! It’s too late for Fred Thompson? And, of course, “Rudy, why, he’s lost all of his momentum, Rudy’s out of it.”
So if you listen to the Drive-Bys, and these people that got it all wrong in New Hampshire, what we’re being told is that the only two candidates left that have any chance whatsoever are McCain and Huckabee, which is exactly what the Drive-Bys want. They want a liberal, moderate nominee, and even a liberal, moderate vice presidential nominee because they know, or they think, that whoever the Democrat nominee is can smoke — they don’t want a conservative nominee on the Republican side. Obviously. The Drive-Bys will always tell you, folks, who is a conservative and who isn’t by virtue of who they try to destroy and by virtue of who they try to prop up. And right now they’re trying to prop up McCain, trying to prop up Huckabee.
The write-up of Thompson’s breakthrough performance in the South Carolina debate Thursday night at the New York Times is typical of what Limbaugh referred to. Here is the opening of the report by Michael Cooper and Michael Luo:
Fred D. Thompson tried to salvage his faltering presidential campaign at a debate Thursday night with a barrage of sharp attacks on the “liberal†policies of Mike Huckabee, the fellow Southerner whom he clearly sees as a rival in the South Carolina primary.
The clearly intended message: Oh he did fine, but it’s going to take more than this to “salvage” his candidacy. So don’t you GOP voters waste your time or your vote on him.
GOP voters need to pick their candidate based on merit. Old Media would prefer to do that for them, and it’s up to GOP voters not to let them.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.
I couldn’t agree more with this post. Look at Fred’s record both in and out of government, listen to or read his speeches, watch his videos, and it will be clear that he’s “The One,” the Real Deal, the “Neo” we’ve been looking for. I just hope GOPers in the remaining primary states wake up to that obvious fact.
GO AHEAD, FRED! MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Comment by Excelsior — January 13, 2008 @ 12:51 am
Thompson/Excelsior 2008?
Comment by Rose — January 13, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
More Fred Worshipping,
Face it, being president requires more than paying homage to a dead president. Saying that since his philosophy matches Reagan’s the best, he is the best. That is like saying someone who read about Guderian and Pattons notes, memoirs and tactics the most is the best general. Being president requires a bit more than that. Fred has zero charisma, he is an old man. Rush’s cheap petty digs at the Drive By Media, after all the biased, phony trash he peddled over the years and his personal attacks is so hypocritical it blows my mind. But this is a right wing blog, so I can’t expect anything but the same old tired rants and half truths.
Comment by jakealope — January 13, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
#3, your comment defines “tired.”
If Fred has zero charisma and supposedly no chance, why did the Drive-Bys first, try to smear him and his wife even before he declared, and second, try to pretend now that it’s over when the primary season has barely begun?
No sale, pal; Fred would be a formidable candidate, and the Drive-Bys know it. He would be an obvious grown-up in contrast to BOOHOO, and and obviously generous and kind man in contrast to the incredibly mean-spirited, vindictive, spiteful Hillary.
Comment by TBlumer — January 13, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
I saw a joke wall mounting of a “jackalope” head one time years ago. The spelling’s not the same as your moniker, but the BS is. I worship the Lord God, not a politician. And I didn’t mention Ronaldus Magnus–you did. Fred is right on the Conservative money, and since I’m a card-carrying member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Evangelical Christian Branch (the scariest kind), I’m saying he’s the one Conservatives should vote for. Limbaugh’s crticisms of the MSM are fully justified and eloquently delivered. If his perspective is skewed by his conservative bias, what has twisted yours? Socialism perhaps? Or the political correctness that is choking the life out of our democratic republic?
GO AHEAD, FRED! MAKE IT HAPPEN!
http://www.fred08.com
http://www.vets4fred.net
Comment by Excelsior — January 13, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Rose, you are too kind. Let’s make it happen for Fred.
Comment by Excelsior — January 13, 2008 @ 11:51 pm
Doh! Waiter! I’ll have what Excelsior’s having!
Comment by Rose — January 14, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
Today Rush announced that he has a new name for the liberal/moderate: “jello.”
Comment by Bob Agard — January 14, 2008 @ 7:48 pm