Clinton Struggle Schadenfreude (Rush)
CALLER: I don’t want to make a big spectacle of this Obama thing and the drugs, but if a Hillary staffer leaked the information, isn’t it the seriousness of the charges that should be investigated?
RUSH: Well, see, now, it’s interesting, because, in a campaign, these kinds of standards sort of evaporate. In this instance, I tried to explain this yesterday, you have a black Democrat, a liberal black Democrat who is the first legitimate top-tier presidential candidate. You have liberal to the core Drive-By Media types who have their roots as liberals in the civil rights movement. That’s where they came of age, and then you couple their education at journalism school and you get the typical Drive-By reporter today. Then you have Mrs. Clinton and her campaign, which these people have been whoring for since 1992. I think they’re getting tired of being whores. They’re stenographers, they’re rubber stamps, whatever the Clintons have said about people, they accept it as truth and go ask the people that Clinton are talking about, “Why would you sell cocaine, Senator McCain, or Governor Huckabee,” instead of, “How dare you say that! Where’s the evidence?” They’re doing what they should do, because this is the first black, legitimate liberal black presidential candidate that we’ve had here. Clean and articulate, as Joe Biden said. So I think Mrs. Clinton doesn’t get away with this.
If this were being said about a Republican candidate in the general election, and they leaked something like this, the Drive-Bys, ah, blood in the water. Then they would accept the fact, as you say, that it is the seriousness of the charge, not the nature of the evidence that requires that we investigate, requires that we pursue. So if this charge were made about a Republican presidential candidate, the Drive-Bys would have a greater inclination to pursue it, and if not conclude anything, just keep reminding everybody that the Republican candidate is alleged to have sold drugs, cocaine. With Obama, they just can’t abide it. They look, and they had all these years of being shloomps for the Clintons, and some of this stuff is starting to offend them, and so the normal rules are being thrown out. I have to tell you, folks, I had a little schadenfreude here. I really am enjoying the Clintons going through this struggle. I don’t believe that this is concocted. I think a portion of it was way back when because she was inevitable, yet they wanted to be able to demonstrate she could overcome a challenge. Did you see her in that debate yesterday? We’re not supposed to be talking about appearances, but the face-lift has fallen. She is showing the strains here. She is showing the pressure, and she’s not responding to it well.
She doesn’t look like she’s enjoying or having any fun with this. She has chosen campaign people not because of their competence, but because of their loyalty, and many of them have jumped ship to Obama anyway. And I think that it’s showing. I’m getting a thrill out of it, because these people have had a cakewalk. These people have not undergone any of the scrutiny that normal public figures go through in times of — she gets away with saying, “My husband didn’t have sex with that intern. There’s a vast right-wing conspiracy out to destroy us, it’s been the case since whenever,” and they just report that, and this right-wing conspiracy stuff gets born. I can give you example, after example, after example, and they would disagree, say, “What do you mean, we have not been scrutinized? Ever heard of Whitewater and this and that and the other thing?” You have been scrutinized not by the Drive-By Media. You have been scrutinized by the alternative media. The New York Times did its due diligence on the Whitewater thing, and there was some damning information, and people did go to jail in that circumstance. But, for the most part, they get a free ride.
Hillary, every time she’s on the cover of the New York Times magazine, it’s like she’s a queen. Beautiful picture, puff-piece article. It’s been more of the same for the vast majority of the time they’ve been in public life. Now this is not happening to them. They’re not getting the automatic pass. Bill Clinton’s out there screwing things up, like he always has when he is stumping for somebody else. The dirty little secret is he’s a drag on this campaign. He’s not helping. He doesn’t help very many Democrats that he does endorse. Gray Davis, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. You can trace this stumble that she’s in the midst of here to the driver’s license thing, which, of course, was brought to national attention by me and then Clinton getting involved afterwards because it was such a blunder. The more she’s out there speaking, and him, look at what’s happening to the poll numbers of Obama and others and look at what’s happening to hers, the more he’s on the scene. This is the dirty little secret.