RUSH: From McClatchy Newspapers, David Lightman: ‘Experience called poor predictor of presidential success.’ This is like the stories we got in the nineties, ‘Lying is okay, spares people’s feelings.’ Yeah, McClatchy Newspapers: ‘Experience called poor predictor of presidential success.’ So I guess we can infer that inexperience is a good predictor. The less experience a candidate has, the better president they will be. This is too good to be true.
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CALLER: (heavy breathing into phone) Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hey.
CALLER: Listen (clears throat) I wanted to talk with you a little bit about the oil drilling issue, but before that I wanted to thank you for your obtuse, upside-down inference from the comments about experience and the presidency. Great example of the kind of sophistry that you peddle every day.
RUSH: What sophistry that I peddle?
CALLER: (heavy breathing)
RUSH: The sophistry is from the McClatchy News Service —
CALLER: (heavy breathing)
RUSH: (heavy breathing) — trying to say that there —
CALLER: (heavy breathing)
RUSH: (laughing) We’ve got a heavy breather.
CALLER: (heavy breathing)
RUSH: (laughing) We’ve got a heavy breather, folks.
CALLER: Yeah. You were suggesting, as I understood your comment, that because experience didn’t correlate with — with, uh, failure that it therefore correlated with success?
RUSH: No! No, no, no, no.
CALLER: That’s what, rather — what —
RUSH: No, no, no. All I said —
CALLER: It’s what you said.
RUSH: No, it’s not what I said. You didn’t hear me right.
CALLER: Okay, something’s right.
RUSH: All I said was, ‘We’ve got that story.’ We’ve got an inexperienced buffoon running for the president here on the Democrat side.
CALLER: (heavy breathing)
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: We’ve had that for several years, yes.
RUSH: No, we haven’t.
CALLER: (heavy breathing)
RUSH: We have one now and so the McClatchy people know that they’ve got an inexperienced… (mock heavy breathing) buffoon. (laughing) There’s a story saying that experience is a bad predictor! (laughing) So if experience is a bad predictor, maybe inexperience is a good one.
CALLER: That’s exactly the ignorant inference I was referring to, yes.
RUSH: That’s not… No! The ignorance is the newspaper trying to pass along a silly notion that experience doesn’t count.
CALLER: So your — So your —
RUSH: This is called illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
CALLER: So your — your assessment of that was a correct and logical and proper argument with respect to that information, is that right?
RUSH: Yes, it’s not even arguable. It’s inarguable, David.
CALLER: (laughing)
RUSH: I don’t know what you got your underwear in a wad about.
CALLER: (laughing) The illogic of your argumentation, which is usually present. But, on the — on the oil issue. I do not wish to —
RUSH: (heaving breathing)
CALLER: Let me know when you’re finished.
RUSH: I’m just breathing.
CALLER: Uh-huh. On the oil issue, I do not deny that drilling is a useful activity.
RUSH: Well, how big of you!
CALLER: I do wonder —
RUSH: You sound as arrogant as Obama does.
CALLER: I do wonder if you’re aware of the current administration’s Energy Department position on drilling.
RUSH: Uhhhhhhhhh.
CALLER: (heavy breathing)
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: Okay, what is it?
RUSH: The president just rescinded —
CALLER: No, no, no, no! The Energy Department.
RUSH: — the executive order —
CALLER: Energy Department position.
RUSH: That’s it.
CALLER: (heavy breathing)
RUSH: That’s it.
CALLER: No. The Energy Department’s —
RUSH: (mock heavy breathing)
CALLER: — report most recently states that drilling will have —
RUSH: Oops! Sorry, out of time.