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June 27, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 27, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, everybody.
Welcome all across the fruited plain.
Rush is out today and tomorrow.
And here we join you deep in the heart of Texas.
That's right, Texas.
We've given you some presidents.
We might be about to give you another one.
Got a couple of insights about that.
We are pleased to welcome you here.
So let's take care of some business, shall we?
Let's make sure that everybody is all set.
We've got some 2012 talk teed up.
We've got some things that we're going to do that are special.
There's some things.
There are always some things that are happening here at the Lone Star State that I will share with you whenever I get to fill in.
I'm always so pleased to right here from the plush but not overly ostentatious studios of WBAP and in Dallas-Fort Worth, a proud Limbaugh affiliate for many, many years.
You know the phone number, 1-800-282-2882-1-800-282-2882.
Now, the 2012 talk that we'll begin with today obviously is going to be very Bachman-centric, as well it should be because she let on that she was going to run forming the exploratory committee.
Did that right there in the debate format, which I thought was very sly and wise and artful.
But it is today, and it's been met with a lot of media appearances.
Fox News Sunday over the weekend.
Yeah, we need to talk about the Chris Wallace, are you a flake question?
Today show this morning, some other places, I'm sure.
And starting immediately, Congresswoman Bachman is under the microscope.
But what kind of microscope is it?
Every candidate running should be under a type of microscope.
That's natural.
That's proper.
If you say you want to be the leader of the free world, we are going to look at you and we're going to look at you hard.
We're going to look at you from every angle and see if you seem worthy.
Yeah.
But in the modern day, that kind of attention comes from a whole lot of places.
It comes from voters who are truly curious.
Wow.
What does this person bring to the table?
In the era of the Tea Party, it comes from conservatives asking, huh, are you really conservative enough?
Are you really devoted enough to the concept of strong but limited government?
Are you really going to bring spending under control?
From social conservatives who deeply, deeply do not want abortion, marriage, you know, gun control, just various other things, social issues, don't want them shunted to the back burner.
They are asking, okay, the fiscal stuff is great, but where are you on the social issues?
The foreign policy conservatives weigh in and say, where is your resume on that?
And in fact, honestly, the current field may be a little light on that.
And I spoke to someone today who could change that immediately and seems like he wants to.
That would be former UN Ambassador John Bolton.
I welcomed him on my local show here in Texas like an hour ago.
And I've always loved this guy.
And he is not coy.
He doesn't tap dance.
I asked him three or four appearances ago, are you running for president?
He says, I'm absolutely thinking about it.
And by Labor Day, I'll let you know.
Wow.
Okay.
And I don't know how that would go.
I don't know how that would go.
A John Bolton presidential run.
I mean, amid all these names and all these faces.
And we got to talk about Congresswoman Bachman today.
And I will tell you about our governor, Rick Perry, whom I've known for a decade and a half.
And I love Governor Perry.
And I'd be thrilled if he were in.
And we've got to talk about the status quo of the Gingrich campaign and the Des Moines Register poll.
Are we familiar with the Des Moines Register poll numbers from over the weekend?
Mitt Romney's in the lead.
Sorry.
Well, he is.
And we got to figure out what we think of Governor Romney, don't we?
Especially if he's going to be our nominee.
I've got a great idea.
I've just got a wacky, crazy idea.
How about somebody else?
Can I be allowed that?
Is that okay?
And I am not going to do what I have heard some folks, quite frankly, do, and that's be really genuinely unkind to and about Governor Romney.
Three and a half, three and a half, I can't believe it's almost time again.
Seems like yesterday that I was trudging through the snows of New Hampshire.
One thing I do, I bolt out of my comfortable Texas womb and trudge on up to the frozen hinterlands of Iowa and New Hampshire to do all the campaign coverage and do the shows from up there.
And I greatly look forward to that process this year.
In fact, I've looked forward to that 2012 process ever since, oh, I don't know, January 20th of 2009, just to pick a date.
But I remember, and of course, then it was Romney and it was McCain and it was Huckabee.
And I got just a big face full of all of them and how they do on the campaign trail.
And certain things stuck with me.
The really genuinely, the genuine gift for retail politics, working a room, you might call it, that Mike Huckabee has.
The energy.
And, you know, you don't really hear John McCain and energy in the same sentence a whole lot.
You hear John McCain and hero, and that he is a national hero.
I will always thank him for his service to this country.
Just wasn't conservative enough for me.
When he became the nominee, though, oh, well, that's what, yeah, okay, great.
Do you vote for him?
Of course you do.
And I did, proudly.
Would I have preferred a more conservative nominee?
Yep.
And I want a more conservative nominee now.
Am I asking too much here?
But the other thing that I remember from New Hampshire 2008 is following Mitt Romney around and doing events with him in Iowa.
And he was great.
He's always great.
And when I say that he is smooth and that he has good communication skills, a lot of people say that almost as criticism, like he's too glib.
He's too salesmanlike.
He's too robotic.
He's too hairsprayed.
He's too perfect.
No, no, no.
I'll take perfect.
I'll take perfect communication skills.
No problem.
Really, really good communication skills will not scare me off.
I want them.
We will need them up against this silver-tongued president.
So I've got the only things I have against Governor Romney are the issues on which I either think he's wrong or the issues on which I'm not convinced enough that he's right or even that he knows that he's right.
So with that, and from that, we get to the an abortion pledge, the Susan B. Anthony list thing that he didn't sign because he said he didn't want to hamstring himself with hospital funding issues.
He didn't want to say, I'll essentially vote for shutting down the funding of an entire big old public hospital just because they might have performed an abortion last August or something like that.
And I'll tell you where I am on pledges.
If I'm running for something, and God help you if I ever do, if I'm ever running for something, I'm not signing pledge number one.
New, ain't doing pledges.
Just don't.
Because you know what?
That simplifies my life.
I will tell you what I believe.
I will show you my record, if I have one in elected office.
There you go.
There's my pledge.
My pledge is to do more of that.
You want me?
Great.
You don't?
Fine.
But pledges, they're worded in squirrely ways sometimes.
I say, and I'll tell you what.
I will pledge to the voters to stand for exactly the views that I described.
Now, that's dependent on a couple of things.
It's dependent on me shooting straight with you.
And for an example of somebody shooting straight with you, Chris Christie on Meet the Press yesterday.
Did that make you want the guy to run?
It's funny because ideologically, Christie may not be the perfect conservative, may not be.
But boy, stylistically, stylistically, boy, do I want his spine surgically infused into whoever our nominee is.
It's a similar observation I made about the ridiculous ride that we were on there for a little while in the Donald Trump candidacy.
Donald Trump's views are wholly unacceptable to me on a couple of issues for President of the United States.
I mean, what were those few weeks anyway?
It was essentially a stunt to get us to watch that crappy apprentice show.
But you know what?
It's free country.
But I will tell you this about Donald.
Whoever our nominee is, I want some of Donald Trump infused into our nominee in this regard.
The comfort in your own skin, the willingness to just get out there and be relaxed and say what you feel, maybe not profanely as Donald did sometimes, and also the willingness to take it to this president, not in a finger-wagging, you know, horribly rude, in-your-face kind of way that belittles the office, but the courage on a debate stage to say what is and is not true and what is and is not right.
Trump would have done that.
So let me have that characteristic in a nominee whose views are actually appropriate for the Republican nominee.
How about that?
So where I was going with all of this is that here in Texas, there is anticipation, as apparently there is around America, for Rick Perry to get into this because it is perceived that the field lacks a consistent conservative with a really impressive and good-sized track record.
All right.
Now, Newt's people might rise up and say, well, there's Newt.
Yeah.
And let me please state for the record, I love Newt.
Is that campaign going to get back to full speed again?
I hope it does because I want real voters in Iowa and New Hampshire to evaluate Newt on Newt's terms rather than sideshows like his staff bailing or, you know, the meet the press moment about the Ryan budget.
I mean, I've asked him, he's been kind enough to be on my local show, and I've had the chance to ask him two, three, four times.
I think I get the Paul Ryan episode now.
The quote that just wound up being a bullet through his foot that we don't like left-wing social engineering and we don't like right-wing social engineering was not an attempt by Newt to create a myth of equivalency between the Obama agenda and the Ryan budget plan, but it was rather about public perception.
People perceive the Obama White House as left-wing social engineering, and they're right.
If we go about reforming Medicare in a just listen to us, we'll get this right against the clock kind of way, some folks might view that as right-wing social engineering.
They'd be mistaken, but they'd view it as that.
Now, that took a lot of syllables, and that's what Newt wishes he had said.
So anyway, I want real people, real voters in real states to pick our nominee, not the media, and not even Republican elites, please.
So there's hunger for Perry to get in.
Now, the Tea Party fervor of the moment seems to be Bachman, Kane, Ron Paul to a degree.
I think Perry would take up a good bit of that.
How might John Bolton do?
Because I was talking to him just an hour ago.
And if Perry gets in, I think one of the arguments will be, I'm the only sitting governor with a long track record.
I mean, I've been around for a while, and I've got a consistent record of conservatism.
I mean, listen, what's consistent?
People will tell you about a few things that have happened to Governor Perry here in Texas.
I may detail them for you now because you're going to hear about them if he runs.
I wrote a column in the Dallas Morning News.
I do that once a week.
They still let me.
In which I brought up the things, the couple of things that have caused Governor Perry's conservative base here in Texas to go, ooh, wait a minute.
And it is my assertion that not one of them, not one of them will hurt him nationally.
They didn't even hurt him locally.
He beat the living daylights out of K. Bailey Hutchison, the most popular politician in Texas history, please.
So as you look at these poll numbers, Romney at 23, Bachman at 22, Kane at 10, Gingrich, 7, Paul, 7, everybody further back.
Some of the things I want to talk to you are, can Rick Santorum catch fire?
Because I just love me, some Rick Santorum.
He did a fundraiser up here.
Well, down here, Pennsylvanians would view it last week.
The guy's golden.
Please tell me what's the matter with Rick Santorum.
The guy's great.
What was he?
3, 4%?
What's going on there?
What is it?
All we're doing, all we're doing is we need a real conservative.
We need a real conservative with a track record.
Santorum's got to be going, hey, hello.
Hell, I'm here.
Hello?
And he is there.
What does he need?
More money?
Well, okay, make that happen if you're so inclined.
You know, let's have some more debates because he does great there.
Now, Michelle Bachman is very front of mind right now, and that's how she's just come from almost nowhere.
And boom, now in the Des Moines Register, there she is, neck and neck with Mitt Romney, which I think is fantastic.
But you know what it seems like?
It seems like the fervor, the passion of the moment right now among the Republican base, it seems like we're not interested in anybody that we've had in our face for more than about five years.
Rick Santorum, man, he is so 2002.
I think we do that at our peril.
Please, let's be broad.
Let's be inclusive.
And I don't necessarily mean we need to go trolling for people that have been around for three decades, but let's look at what's in somebody's heart and what's in their head and not just look for the short resume as if that is some really special, great thing to have.
Didn't we learn otherwise this past election?
It doesn't matter how short or how long you've been around, quite frankly, to me, anymore.
What matters is what's in your heart and what's in your head.
So what's in these folks' hearts and heads?
I got a lot of thoughts to share with you clearly about a lot of candidates.
I'd love to mix it up with you.
We have a lot of things going on in the news from over the weekend.
Always glad that the continuing narrative of hitting that strategic petroleum reserve.
If it wasn't purely political, it certainly looks that way.
Afghan drawdown talk.
Really interesting Supreme Court ruling this morning.
7-2, the dissenting justices, Thomas and Breyer.
What?
When does that happen?
And I might agree with them, which means I never agree with Stephen, excuse me, I might agree with their dissent because the 7-2 ruling was that it was unconstitutional for California to ban the sale of video games to violent video games to minors.
What?
So all kinds of things to do.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
That much we know.
And Rush is back on Wednesday.
I'm with you today and tomorrow and enormously pleased.
The numbers 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis at WBAP Dallas-Fort Worth.
Let's go straight to calls next on the EIB network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Monday.
Mark Davis filling in from WBAP Dallas-Fort Worth.
Let's do some calls.
Now, one of the more memorable things from the weekend was the Chris Wallace, are you a flake question to Michelle Bachman?
We have some folks who want to talk about that.
Let's do that right after the bottom of the hour because I'll play the golden moment and we'll see what we think of it.
And I will tell you that one of the great things I can say about Chris Wallace is if you didn't like the are you a flake question, one of the first things Chris apparently did before packing for vacation is apologize for it on a video blog, and it's a measure of him.
And it's, it's, we'll cover all of that.
So just sit tight.
We'll get to that right after the bottom of the air.
Right now, though, 1-800-282-2882, and we begin today's festivities in Nashville.
Keon, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How you doing?
I'm good, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
My pleasure.
Well, I wanted to, you were talking about the Tea Party candidates, Bachman, Kane, and to an extent, Paul.
And I would like to distinguish the difference between Bachman, Paul, and Kane.
The key difference is within a Tea Party realm, the key difference is that Herman Kane is a fair tax proponent.
And neither Mr. Paul or Mrs. Bachman, Rhett Bachman, are proponents of the fair tax.
No, and I love the sales lingo there, which is great.
That is the sales tax as opposed to the flat tax.
I believe both Congressman, both members of Congress, Paul and Bachman, are in favor of big-time tax reform, but have not come down specifically with specific love for either the sales or the flat tax.
So is it Herman Kane's taste for the sales tax that fuels your enthusiasm for him?
Yes, and it's important to note that that sales tax would be a sales tax only.
It would not be added to current federal income and asset taxes.
Those would be wiped away and abolished if that were to become law.
I know.
And you've probably heard this from a lot of people, but I'll say it for you and we can talk about it for a minute.
I would take either the sales tax or the flat tax tomorrow over the labyrinthine mess that we have now in the IRS code.
That having been said, I think I'm, well, I know I'm a flat tax guy.
The sales tax is very cool.
I mean, even hookers and drug dealers are paying sales taxes when they illegal immigrants.
Everybody's paying taxes, you know, whether they're buying tortillas or Lamborghinis.
You got to love it.
But it creates 50 little IRSs in the state capitol.
I think it's regressive.
When you make a million dollars, you don't spend 10 times more than when you make $100,000.
And I think it sets up the possibility for a barter economy.
Hey, I'll give you a copier for this sofa in which people genuinely avoid taxation completely, which sounds lovely, but could prove problematic.
I think to be realistic, we are a materialistic consumer of society.
So there's no, I don't think that there's any reality in the thought that we would just stop purchasing things.
No, I know.
No, I know.
But you know what we would do?
I'll tell you what we would do.
And listen, I enjoy this debate, and others want to hop on, be my guest.
And Keon, thanks for everybody and say hi to everybody in the Music City.
I want the amount of money coming to Washington to be way less than it is now, okay?
Way less.
But you know what I want it to be?
Once it is way less, kind of predictable.
I'd hate to not be able to build a battleship because the economy constricted and people stopped buying stuff, kind of like we kind of did in the last couple of years.
Just say it.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Be right back.
It is a great joy to be back in the chair.
Well, not the actual chair.
I'm actually in my own chair here in Texas, which is lovely, but not exactly the same.
But I will tell you this, and I know it's not exactly the same when Rush isn't here, so I hope to soothe your crushing disappointment by providing at least something mildly compelling for today and tomorrow.
And Rush is back on Wednesday.
All right, some good, healthy 2012 talk underway with those Des Moines Register poll numbers.
Romney 23, Bachman 22.
In third place, a distant third, but still third, Herman Kane, Gingrich with seven, Ron Paul with seven, everyone else behind that.
In order to fuel our next call, let's play the audio of the weekend.
Here are two people I really, really like, Chris Wallace and Michelle Bachman.
All right, let me play it first.
You've heard it a hundred times, or if not, well, you will now.
And I've got a probably half-baked theory here.
We'll see what we think.
But this is what everybody's buzzing about.
Chris Wallace is talking to Michelle Bachman, and it's going great.
And you reach the point where Chris Wallace clearly wanted to address the perception that, well, I'll let him describe the perception.
I don't have to tell you that you have the wrap on you here in Washington is that you have a history of questionable statements.
Some would say gaffes, ranging from talking about anti-America members of Congress on this show a couple of months ago when you suggested that NATO airstrikes had killed up to 30,000 civilians.
Are you a flake?
Well, I think that would be insulting to say something like that because I'm a serious person.
But you understand when I say that, that that's what the rap on you is.
Oh, yeah, sure.
All right.
First, let's do, let me help Chris with his own damage control.
He reported to his cubicle and fired up the video camera and said, wow, I messed up.
I'm sorry.
So, and I want to tell you, it was not one of those, I'm sorry, you're too stupid to figure out what I was trying to do, kind of apologies that people will frequently do when they stub their toe, when they do something that causes trouble for themselves many, many times in the media, in politics, in everything, all kinds of public figures.
They will apologize.
Can you see me doing the finger quotes?
They will apologize, but it's really an attempt to say, you were just too dumb to figure out what I was doing.
And if you didn't get it, I'm real sorry.
You're such a dolt.
Chris Wallace did not do that.
He said, I saw the anger in your emails, and I messed up, and I'm sorry.
The question shouldn't outweigh the answer.
The question shouldn't be the big deal.
And in this case, it was.
Now, does that mean that Chris Wallace cannot, cannot ask Michelle Bachman to address the impression that she might be a little flighty or whatever adjective you want to use?
I don't know, gaff-prone, whatever, whatever.
As we go to your calls on this, let me tell you my quick take about it.
Everyone's going to do this.
In politics, all you do is talk all day, every day, for years.
You're going to mess up sometimes.
Liberals will mess up.
Conservatives will mess up.
The point I'd like to make, and I'm not the first to make it, is that when the conservatives do it, it tends to be a bigger deal in the dominant media culture.
You know, God help Dan Quayle if he puts an E on the end of potato.
Okay, that wasn't a good day.
But my grandkids will know about that.
Will they know about Barack Obama talking about 57 states or the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor or his inability to pronounce the word Corman?
Will they know about those?
No, because those were promptly forgotten.
Because in those cases, that was Barack Obama, who's just so incredibly smart.
He just messed up a little.
It was just a little synapse misfire and not in any way indicative of some deeper, some deeper doltishness.
But let Sarah Palin mess up.
Let Michelle Bachman mess up.
Let George W. Bush misspeak.
Oh, it's a window to their souls.
So look, I'm willing to let it go for everybody.
The Obama 57 states, the bomb on Pearl Harbor, the Medal of Honor winner who actually was indeed posthumously awarded that medal.
President said he was alive.
Whoops.
Actually, that's a hard one to let go.
Shouldn't the homework have been a little better?
Can you see George W. Bush making that mistake?
You know, God bless President Bush.
Pronouncing nuclear may have been a challenge, but I think he would have gotten that one right on the Medal of Honor recipient.
Okay?
But in general, broadly drawn, I will let people's little gaffes go.
And I wish everybody else, and that's the way I wish the world was.
Let it go.
Let it go even-handedly.
If you're going to let it go when a liberal does it, let it go when a conservative does it.
Or if you're going to make a big old fat hairy deal out of it, then do that on both sides.
Just don't have the double standard, all right?
Now, as we go to a couple of calls on this, or however many you want to place, when the first person to recognize that was not a good moment was actually Chris Wallace, forgiveness should be immediate and all-encompassing.
Because it is okay to ask about that.
But the way Chris asked it, it made it seem like it occurred to him.
It's like, hey, here's this and here's this.
Are you a flake?
Like, I kind of think you might be.
Help me out with this one.
The observation is made, and you better know that if she's our nominee, it's going to be made again and again and again and again.
Now, it'll be made by the left, but you know what?
You better know what you're up for.
If you're going to be the Republican nominee, you better be able to handle and answer everything the left will say about you.
Everything, even if it's made up, even if it's unfair, you better be ready for it.
So there's a way to ask her about that.
Congresswoman Bachman, there's some who will observe that maybe you've been caught in a couple of misstatements, and it tends to be your critics who don't agree with you on things.
And so maybe they're looking for such instances with a certain heightened relish.
But those observations have been made.
How would you reply to them?
That's how you ask it.
And I bet Chris Wallace would give a hefty sum to step into the time tunnel and ask it that way yesterday morning on Fox News Sunday.
But if Chris Wallace frosted you on Fox News Sunday with the are you a flake question, then let the frost melt with his immediate and unqualified mea culpa.
That's a good dude right there, Chris Wallace.
That's a good dude.
Okay, now as we go to Frank in San Antonio, who might not be thinking so much or might not have thought that that much on Sunday because I think he was frosted by that moment.
In San Antonio, hi, Frank.
Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
I'm doing good, Mark.
Great to talk to you.
Thanks.
And I just think that there's a big difference, you know, between ranked amateurs like Chris Wallace and guys like Tim Russert.
The days of Tim Russert are long gone.
He would have never asked a question so blunt and insulting like that to Congresswoman Bachman.
He would have been more professional in how he would have, you know, rephrased that question, kind of like how you did it, you know, there in the opening.
You're very kind.
In bringing up Russert, it's kind of the gold standard.
And Russert was truly an equal opportunity tormentor.
And I don't know if you've been largely aware.
I mean, if you and I were talking about Chris Wallace a month ago, would you have been as largely insulting as you just were?
I know, I don't like Chris Wallace.
I never have.
Why not?
Why not?
Because he tried to come off as if he's kidding around like there's an inside joke, but he's the only one that knows it.
And then he's got to come back out later on and apologize for it.
He needs to stop trying to come out, you know, and being a comic and be more serious in how he rephrases the questions and how he's going to ask the questions where it's not insulting not only to the person that he's asking it to, but to his audience members.
It's not what he expect from everybody.
He needs to sit there and ask the question in a professional way and stop trying to be a clown.
Well, it's not, well, I'm a little baffled because it's not like there's a track record of Chris Wallace trying to be too clever by half and then having to retreat for inappropriate joviality.
I, quite frankly, don't really know what you're talking about.
I think stylistically, for some reason, you just don't like the guy.
And you're totally entitled to that.
That's fine.
Everything's a matter of taste.
A lot of it has to do with how he does his interviews with certain people, and he frosts me a lot.
Okay, well, I don't like the guy.
Well, I think that's clear.
And listen, it's a world of choice and a world of opinions.
And no problem.
Rush doesn't mind and I don't mind.
Tell me who you like or who you don't for whatever reason.
And thanks, Frank.
You know, when people are out there doing shows every day, and it's funny, I was watching David Gregory talking to Chris Christie on Meet the Press yesterday.
It was good interviews, okay interview.
Now, David makes my teeth itch sometimes politically.
Find me somebody who won't in the modern media culture.
Find me, I mean, Tim Russert's shoes may have been virtually impossible to fill.
And listen, I once thought that about Tony Snow when Tony Snow left Fox News Sunday and may God rest his noble soul.
And along comes Chris Wallace, who I've been familiar with.
And I thought, okay, let's see how this works.
I've grown quite used to Chris and quite fond of him.
I think he really, a vast majority of the time, does a really, really, really nice job.
Now, here's my probably half-baked theory.
You ready?
What was last week's highlight on Fox News Sunday?
That would be the interview with Jon Stewart.
And Stewart, who has a certain genius about him in the comedy central vein, and he certainly has, he's a funny guy and a sharp guy in a lot of ways.
I know where Jon Stewart's coming from politically.
And you know what?
I don't care because it's a comedy show.
I mean, it's a, I know half of America watches it for news, which speaks ill of us in a lot of ways, but Stewart is a satirist.
I don't care that he's, I mean, I care if the network news anchors are liberal or all the editors making front page decisions at the New York Times, Washington Post.
I care if they're liberal.
I don't care if Jon Stewart is liberal, all right?
There is a difference.
And he was right to point that difference out to Chris Wallace.
But Jon Stewart is out of his cotton pick and mind if he doesn't recognize that Fox News is the counterbalance to the liberal bias you find on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, right?
So they're talking about bias and this and that.
And Stewart thinks that Fox News is just nothing but a cozy womb for all conservative guests.
And I don't know, maybe just subconsciously, I can't read minds here.
Is it possible that Chris Wallace, even subconsciously, thought, you know, I better give a conservative a rough ride the week after the Jon Stewart interview?
I don't think that he made notes, woke up that morning and said, well, I want to ask Michelle Bachman if she's a flake.
I don't know.
I'm just wondering.
I mean, sometimes things occur to you even below the surface.
Just saying.
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Got some good healthy 2012 talk underway.
Probably need to do some debt ceiling talks.
And where do you want the line drawn in that enormous mountain of sand?
And various other things from over the weekend.
Always go to rushlimbaugh.com, even when Rush is not here, because there's always great stuff there.
Let us head to Macon, Georgia.
David, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you, sir?
Hey, Mega Dittos, Maha, Marky, what's going on?
Fantastic.
We had to do it.
Hey, I just wanted to say, you know, I really enjoyed Congressman Bach's speech today.
I thought it was inspirational and patriotic and really gave us a true sense of American exceptionalism, which is something we haven't, you know, heard over the past two years.
And I can tell that she's the real deal, and I'm supporting her.
And, you know, you can really tell because the media and the liberals hate her.
And, you know, I watched the interview with Chris Wallace this weekend, and I was shocked along with a lot of people.
But there's two points I want to make about that video.
And one is that if you watch the interview on YouTube, it's very interesting to me how Chris Wallace takes a deep sigh.
He goes, and then rolls his eyes upward to the sky and then asks the question, are you a flake?
It's almost as if someone at Fox News put him up to asking that question and that he didn't want to.
Okay, well, but before you get to secondly, let's deal with firstly.
There's a much more plausible possibility since I don't think that Chris has an earphone, you know, with Roger Ailes or anybody else saying, ask her this now.
I think he wanted to find a way to get to that perception of her and have her deal with it for a minute before they were done and didn't quite know exactly how to do it.
And so, oh my gosh, how do I get to this delicately?
And boom, it just came out.
I think that that makes a lot more sense.
What's the secondly?
Right.
Well, the secondly, I thought it was real funny, his apology video, which, by the way, Chris Wallace, I think you need to reorganize your bookshelf and cut the weeds that are growing on it because it looks pretty messy.
But, you know, one thing that I like about Michelle Bachman is that she's not accepting his apology.
And I think that's real important.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I mean, whoa, what do you mean?
Well, I read earlier this morning of the Politico article that she wasn't accepting his apology.
And I really like that because there's two ways.
And pardon me for being dorky about the language.
She said, I do not accept his apology, or she just hasn't said anything yet, meaning there's been an absence of accepting the apology.
Which seems to be the case.
Well, there was an absence in accepting it.
She did not say, I do not accept it.
Well, did someone, oh, God, I hate to, and pardon me for staying on this.
It may well be that she just wants to let it go.
She's got a lot more important fish to fry than those 10 cents.
What she's doing is she's setting the stage, and she is not going to allow, she's letting the media know that they cannot throw her around like a rag doll like they did Sarah Palin and ruin her.
That's what the media has done to Sarah Palin.
They've ruined her.
And the most important thing for Michelle Bachman to do as a conservative woman who will always be attacked for being a conservative Christian woman is the media will go after her and they will demonize her and they will destroy her.
And it's most important that she does not let them get away with that.
And a great place to start is Fox News.
Well, let me, if I found the politico piece you referred to, thank you.
Let me tell you, here's a masterful tease.
Let's take our final pause of the hour.
Let's come back.
Because that's the very first thing that occurs to me.
Don't make enemies out of friends.
Michelle, you are a tough, magnificent, wonderful woman.
If a good and decent guy like Chris Wallace messes up in three seconds of questioning and then really does sincerely apologize for it later, of course you accept it.
Of course you accept it.
I mean, come on.
All right.
God.
Is this still just the first hour?
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Be right back on the EIB network.
When Chris Wallace ungraciously asks Michelle Bachman, are you a flake?
But then, but then immediately apologizes.
And then ABC's Jonathan Carl asks, do you accept the apology?
And she kind of doesn't answer.
She says it's, I'll tell you what, I'll tell you exactly what she said.
We'll explore this a little more.
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