Posted by
Ron Devito on Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:25:46 PM
by Gary P. Jackson
The Speech: A Time for choosing -- http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.blogspot.com
Was
listening live when I heard el Rushbo say this. Rush was announcing
that he had interviewed Sarah Palin for the upcoming issue of his
popular Limbaugh Letter.
Here’s a transcript
of Friday’s show. Limbaugh also announced that he would interview Sarah
live on the air Tuesday in the second hour of his show which will be 1
pm Eastern noon Central across the EIB Network.
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH:
Yesterday afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, I interviewed Governor Palin
for the upcoming issue of the Limbaugh Letter. It will be our cover
story. I think it was the first time other than an interview with me --
sometimes I do interview myself in the newsletter because the best
questions I ever get asked are the ones I ask myself. But she's the
cover story, she's the interview, and she will be here live on the
radio next Tuesday, the day her book is released, at the top of the
second hour. I talked to her yesterday, I've got the book, I have it
right over there and I've had a chance, I just got it a couple days
ago, three days ago, and I've had a chance to go through it, and I made
a prediction to her when I talked to her yesterday. I said, "You've got
enough in here that people who get hold of this, like the AP or any of
the State-Controlled Media, they're gonna focus on the soap opera
aspects of your book, and they're going to ignore what is truly one of
the most substantive policy books I've read."
This woman,
Governor Palin, clearly is jazzed by policy, particularly environmental
policy and energy policy, as well as taxes and so forth. I talked to
her about the future of the Republican Party, what she thought about
New York-23, how she deals with the character assassination, not just
of herself, but of her entire family. It was fascinating, and we'll do
it again on Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock eastern time. She sent out
a message here on Facebook: "'Keep Your Powder Dry' -- As you probably
have heard, the AP snagged a copy of my memoir, Going Rogue, before its
Tuesday release. And as is expected, the AP and a number of subsequent
media outlets are erroneously reporting the contents of the book. Keep
your powder dry, read the book, and enjoy it! Lots of great stories
about my family, Alaska, and the incredible honor it was to run
alongside Senator John McCain. We can't wait to hit the road and meet
so many on the book tour! See you in Michigan first." That's Sarah
Palin's post -- her reacting.
One of the things the AP is
focusing on is nonsense. I should have printed out the AP story. I
didn't do it. Rather than try to paraphrase it I'll find it during the
break. (interruption) Well, not going after her son-in-law? You mean
this Levi? He's not her son-in-law, but no, she doesn't mention him.
She doesn't mention him in the book. Nobody can stop talking about this
guy, this Levi Johnston, but she doesn't mention him in the book. She's
pretty open and honest about being locked up and confined and not
allowed to be herself by certain people in the McCain campaign, Nicolle
Wallace who set her up with the Katie Couric interview. You know, I
told you that I had some friends in town last week and I blew my stack
again when one of them started asking me questions about Sarah Palin
based on media reports. This guy brought up the Palin-Katie Couric
interview and that's when I started throwing the napkin. I said, "Don't
you know what happened there?"
Nicolle Wallace, who used to work
at CBS, pushed that interview on Couric to help Couric. Couric's
numbers were in the tank, and she told Palin some things that were not
true, and most of that interview ended up on the cutting room floor.
The substance of the interview, it was a total setup, a total setup.
"Well, why didn't she know that?" She was on a leash. When you read
this book, you'll find that they dressed her. She wanted to wear her
clothes. They started this whole controversy about paying for the
clothes, were they donated, this kind of thing. They would not let her
mention, they wouldn't let her give a shout-out to George Bush during
the campaign for keeping the country safe after 9/11. They wouldn't let
her make a concession speech alongside McCain the night that he gave
what many thought was his best speech of the campaign.
There are
many other instances of stuff inside the campaign that I think will
help people understand what the real problem or series of problems was.
I mean she really dishes it out at Steve Schmidt, who was the campaign
manager. They wouldn't let her go back and talk to the press on the
campaign plane. I woulda gone nuts had I been in that position, that
muzzled and that directed. But, you know, she's not hard on McCain. She
talks about it was an honor serving with him as his vice presidential
nominee. Anyway, you'll learn all of this when you read the book, it's
going to come out to Tuesday. It's going to set sales records, it
already has. One-and-a-half million printing is what's the original,
and it's going to go higher than that.
END TRANSCRIPT
As usual, Rush is right. Mark Halperin of Time Magazine is out there chirping: "Don't look for hefty policy prescriptions." [ in Sarah’s book] I think I’ll trust Rush Limbaugh over Halperin.
