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Dec. 5, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 5, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
No, it's not about that.
It's not about all it's it's about the Senate.
That's all it's about.
It's about it's about maybe taking the Senate and holding the House.
They've given up on winning the White House, Snerdlin.
It's not about anything other than that.
I've explained it once before.
I'll be happy to explain it.
Now, folks, we're talking about here the long knives are out for Newt Gingrich in the Republican Party.
In what you think is the conservative movement.
There is no conservative movement per se that includes conservative media.
I finally come to that conclusion.
There is no conservative movement.
We are conservative movement people.
The Tea Party are, you and I. But uh in in conservative media circles, they don't consider them part of the themselves part of conservative movement.
I really think that'll go a long way in explaining some of the things people scratch their heads about.
Anyway, how are you?
Uh it's Monday.
We got a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Happy to be here, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, our telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
So Herman Cain dropped out of the race.
Um I I tell you, uh folks, I don't I have I am so conflicted about this on a on a number of levels.
But the one thing that that I don't even, I'm not sure of this anymore.
I was going to say, somebody show me the evidence, but I'm not sure that, I think there probably is some now, the ginger white thing.
If it weren't for that, you could say that the media has another scalp to put on their belt.
Others are arguing, no, no, no, Rush, this is the system working.
Come on, Rush, face it.
The guy didn't have a clue on foreign policy.
The system has worked, it's weeded out somebody, it's unqualified.
Well, you can think about it however you wish.
Now, what I was talking about here at the beginning of the program, uh the the long knives are out for Newt Gingrich.
I mean, uh folk, we have George Will has called Newt Gingrich in a column a Marxist.
I don't think he's ever called Obama a Marxist.
Everybody's dumping all over Trump.
I can't Trump is gonna moderate a debate on December 27th.
It's gonna have about two viewers.
And everybody in the conservative establishment is dumping on Trump, and so Trump is turning around and dumping on them, and we've got the audio sound bites.
I haven't listed the audio sound bites.
I've got the roster of the transcripts, so some of it's quite funny.
Uh it it I'll tell you it it's this is fascinating to watch.
We have the most unqualified guy to walk in the room, no matter what room he goes into in Barack Obama.
We have an absolute disaster leading the country, an absolute walking disaster in Barack Hussein Obama.
And we are witnessing, you and I are witnessing the systematic destruction of every Republican that comes along and threatens Romney.
And Romney's uh hold on the nomination.
The only Republican who's not being attacked by anybody is Romney.
For example, there's a there's a PBS show on uh on Friday called Inside Washington.
And I it it's I I don't know broadcast, I don't watch PBS anymore, so I don't know if it's syndicated around the country on PBS affiliates or not.
But it is obviously broadcast in Washington.
And the liberals on inside Washington Friday were giddy at the thought of Gingrich as the Republican nominee.
Mark Maxie Shields said the Republican field, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Michelle Bachman, John Huntsman stand between a landslide reelection victory of Barack Obama if Newt Gingrich is the nominee.
If Newt Gingrich is a nominee, it'll not be a competitive race.
It'll be a landslide for Obama.
It'll be a walk to reelection at a time when the nation needs a major debate.
Mark Maxy Shields.
Nina Totenberg.
Now I know I know who these people are, so do you too.
Just hang with me here, folks.
As always, we're headed somewhere here.
Nina Totenberg, NPR.
I don't think Barack Obama has led such a good life that he deserves or will get Newt Gingrich as an opponent, but it's possible.
And it's possible at the moment because of the time.
I mean, we're very close to the Hawkeye Cockyeye and the New Hampshire primary now.
It feels like this thing's been going on forever and will go on forever.
But it's about a month or less now.
And so the time to pierce that balloon and watch it fizzle is evaporating.
And he may beat the time.
He may beat the clock, meaning Gingrich.
Then the moderator, the fossil, Gordon Peterson, they have a very long record of consistency.
Colby, do you find anything wrong with that statement?
Colbert King, Washington Post.
No, I like everything going on right now.
God answers Democrat prayers.
And so I hope if we just hold on, noodle make it, make it to the nomination, that would be just beautiful.
So all these Democrats, all these liberals are hoping and praying for Gingrich that that equals an Obama landslide.
But their counterparts on the right are saying the same thing.
At National Review, at the weekly standard, George Will.
They're all saying the same thing about Gingrich.
For whatever reasons.
The reasons are on the gambit.
He's undisciplined.
He's self-educated.
He's inside Washington.
He's not the outsider.
He's a phony.
He's been all over the ball, but he's not a conservative.
He misleads people.
You've heard the laundry list of criticisms about Mr. Newt.
But what it what it boils down to here, folks, is I have studied this.
In fact, let me take you back to me on this program, as recently as November 10th.
Listen to this soundbite from me, your host.
I think they are more concerned, our consultants, with holding the House and winning the Senate.
I think they believe deep down in the depths of their soul that Obama can't be beat.
I think that they look at Mitt Romney as the single only hope we have of taking the Senate, even if he loses the presidential race.
They're looking at Romney, not because he can beat Obama, but because he can limit the damage in the Senate House races, which is what they really want.
I think, and I do believe that in some cases, and I'm not prepared to name names right now.
I do believe in some cases on our side, they would rather Obama win than a full throated conservative beat him.
Because they don't control the conservative, they don't control the Tea Party.
They don't control where that victorious conservative candidate would come from.
I don't think anything's changed.
That's November 10th.
This is December 5th.
I don't think anything's changed.
Doesn't matter when Herman Cain threatens Romney, what happens?
When Newt threatens Romney, what happened?
When anybody threatens Romney, what happens?
Both parties launch salvos at whoever it is.
When Bachman won the oil when the straw poll coming out of Iowa, what happened?
They went for now, she helped with the with the, you know, Perry.
Perry launched big.
Now I everybody, everybody says, yeah, Russia, wait a minute now, buddy old pal, you gotta realize the system worked here.
Cain wasn't qualified Russian.
You know it and I know it.
Caine had no business being anywhere.
He didn't even know where Europe is, much less foreign.
Folks, if the system worked, we wouldn't have Obama as president.
Don't give me this system works, works for one side.
The other side doesn't get half the treatment, doesn't get 10% of the treatment our side gets.
Obama still hasn't been vetted.
And now his protectors are out there.
Don't you dare bring up Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers this time.
Don't you dare go there.
Don't you dare do it.
Is anybody saying, don't you dare go after Gingrich and that wives?
Don't you dare no.
Everybody say, hey, let's go after Newton.
Let's destroy Newt.
Let's destroy everybody but Romney.
And I'm telling you, I'm telling you, it's because our establishment doesn't think Obama can be beat.
Why, Rush?
Why?
Because they live inside the beltway.
Their world is.
I mean, what are they what are they treated to every day?
They live in a place run by the liberals.
They live in a place dominated by the Democrats.
They live in a place that's run socially, politically, news wise, media-wise, whatever run by the left.
All they see every day is themselves a distinct ineffective minority.
But they do think they've got a chance to win the Senate and get their committee chairmanships and put themselves in charge of the money.
And they think Romney, I'm convinced of this.
They think Romney gives them the best chance of holding the House and winning the Senate.
That a genuine conservative, they're scared to death.
They think they think independents run away from conservatives as fast as chickens run away from Colonel Sanders.
That's what they think.
They believe this, despite the evidence.
That's what they think conservatives scare reasonable people all the way as far away as they can go.
Not kidding.
Don't doubt me, Luke, folks.
I know who we're talking about here and know who these people are.
And I know that they've they've reacted this way to conservatives ever since the days of Ronaldo's Magnus.
You know it and I know it.
Okay, you still doubt me?
I have set you up.
Let's go back to the audio.
This is NBC's Meet the Depressed, the host David Gregory.
Remember now, no news on these shows.
That's only last week.
There is no news in the media anymore.
It's not about news.
It's about marching, it's about advancing an agenda.
So David Gregory spoke with the BBC's chief Washington correspondent, Catty Kay.
Catty Kay, the very catty Catty Kay, of the BBC, about the Republican primary, and Gingrich.
And David Gregory says, what about this outsider thing?
I mean, this guy, as speaker, he was second in line to the president.
You don't get much more inside than that.
I mean, you know, you don't have to, you know, look at the lobbying piece or, you know, the strategic advising of Freddie Mack to make him an insider.
The question at the moment, I think, for the Romney campaign is how hard do they go after Newt Gingrich?
But they're gonna have to find a way, I think, to tackle Newt Gingrich.
Republicans in the establishment of the Republican Party that you speak to are terrified of a Newt Gingrich campaign.
They believe that he could not only lose the Republicans, the White House, at a time when this is theirs to take, but that he could also lose them seats in the House and the Senate as well.
This is a real concern amongst the establishment.
I told you this back on November 10th.
I know, I know you're dazzled, and you say, gosh, how does he do it?
How does he know?
I know these people.
I know liberals, whether they're Republicans or Democrats.
I know Democrats.
I know I know squishy when I see squishy, whether it be Republican or Democrat.
And I also remember why they hated Christine O'Donnell and why they hated Sharon Angle, because they didn't care about the movement folks.
They cared about their Senate chairmanships.
They cared about getting themselves in charge of the money.
Only thing uh cotton is that wrong about his.
These people don't think the White House is theirs to be had.
I don't believe they think I think they think Obama probably shoe in.
I talked to enough of these people, not them uh directly, specifically.
But you've heard it.
I mean, you you how many of you people get depressed each and every day?
Because you hear somebody somewhere saying Obama can't.
At the end of the day, 47% of people don't pay taxes, 42% of people on food stamps, 99% of the people get some sort of government help.
No way we can you hear this every day, right?
And it depresses you.
I'm telling you, people live inside the beltway believe this stuff too.
Obama's got a billion dollars to spend.
He can't be beat.
So what do we do?
We got to hold on to the House and we gotta we gotta maybe take over the Senate, and that's what our nominee's job is going to be.
Let's continue here the Sunday morning media montage.
Well, not a media montage.
I got uh Barney Frank, Kirsten Powers, Harold Ford Jr., George Will, Mark Maxie Shields, all talking about Newt and the presidential race.
He would lose heavily, and a lot of Democrats would win races in which there would be a great follow-up.
In a general election, I think it's gonna scare off moderates, it's gonna scare off independents.
If he's a nominee, Democrats are strengthened, Democrats will win back seats in the Senate, and many of them take the House.
I would expect that Newt Gingrich would bring the two parties together as no one else could, but they'd be together against him.
A landslide reelection victory of Barack Obama if Newt Gingrich is a nominee.
It will not be a competitive race.
It will be a landslide.
It will be a walk to re-election.
There you have it.
I mean, you heard Republic.
Well, you're one Republican in their will, you, but the rest of them.
Now, what is it about Newt?
What is it about Newt that's going to cause this landslide loss?
What is it?
What is it that's going to join the two parties together against Newt?
What is it that's going to send all these moderates and independents scared and running back to the Democrats?
What is it about Newt Gingrich that's going to do that?
Hmm?
Is it really gonna is Newt gonna scare the independents and moderates back to is all of this gonna happen?
That's exactly the Yeah, exactly right.
The economy won't matter.
People's lives won't matter.
The fact they don't have houses and homes worth anything, the fact they don't have jobs won't matter.
Newt Gingrich is gonna run everybody back to the Liberal Democrats.
That's what the experts, that's what the elites say.
Why?
Somebody tell me why.
Come on, Sterley, tell me why.
Dad, stop!
You just named it.
You just answered it.
I gotta take a quick break.
Be back.
No, the answer is very simple, folks.
I'll answer their own question.
You you know the answer.
The reason there is this paranoia about uh Gingrich is what you would say, and that's how you'd have to describe it.
The answer is very simple.
Why is all of this disaster gonna happen if Newt's a nominee?
Because in these people's view, he's conservative in their mind.
They're not thinking if Newt in the double talk uh Nancy Pelosi commercial and couch a global war.
They just they see Newt as an arch conservative.
And the Republicans see an arch conservative as a guaranteed loser.
Republicans establishment Republicans, beltway Republicans, even some meltway media types, believe that an arch conservative, what someone they think is or call referred to as an arch conservative will panic and frighten independents and moderates.
Remember now the establishment, both parties think that independent and moderates win elections.
If you get them, you win the election.
These people think that Gingrich is gonna scare the independents and moderates all the way back to Obama, forgetting what happened in the midterms of 2010.
It's utter paranoia.
Now the left, uh Mark Maxie Shields and his crowd, they are afraid of conservatism because they know it wins.
This is the this is the dichotomy.
The left fears conservatism because they know it wins.
The Republican establishment fears conservatism because they think it loses.
So we end up pulling our hair out here, trying to come up with some people on our team in our movement to join us.
And we look and we find that neither establishment, neither party establishment is with us.
We are the enemy.
And by the way, given this scenario, it also tells us that neither establishment considers Romney to be all that conservative.
If Romney were thought to be a conservative, they would be trying to destroy him too.
Now you might think this is a little simplistic.
It isn't.
It is the explanation.
There's no rationality here, unless you redefine rational to explain the day-to-day beliefs of different elements of the Democrat and Republican establishment.
Some things they see eye to eye on, some things they don't, obviously.
But when it comes to conservatism, they both fear conservatives, albeit for different reasons.
So when Shields and these guys uh talk about Gingrich creating a landslide for Obama, they are really speaking 180 degrees out of phase.
They fear a landslide loss for Obama, the hands of a real conservative.
However, there is another hand here.
And that is to certain elements of the Tea Party, Gingrich isn't an arch conservative.
He isn't a conservative, period.
But they're willing to overlook it.
And do you know why?
Again, the answer is simple.
Republicans are looking at these debates.
How many have there been?
Fifteen so far?
And there are more coming.
Then, when I say Republicans, say Tea Party voters, they look at these debates and then they anticipate the debates coming up between Obama and whoever the Republican nominee is.
And I am here to tell you that Tea Party people, Republicans, I don't care where you go, are so sick and tired of Republicans, Republican candidates sounding stupid, looking stupid, that they will support anybody who just sounds stupid, doesn't matter what they say.
If somebody sounds smart, if somebody looks smart, that's fine for a lot of people because they're fed up.
With Republicans who seem slow, halting, stupid, dumb, uninformed, they're tired of it.
They had to live through eight years of that allegation against George W. Bush, with Bush not defending himself against it, with the Bush administration not reacting to it.
So for ten years now, Republicans have to put up with this notion that all their nominees are stupid, idiot, can't talk, can't think out loud, and so a Republican like Newt, who comes along who can do all those things, are hi, and people rest easy and are willing to overlook whatever some short.
And by the way, the same fear exists for the Democrats.
Welcome back, Rush Limboss, serving humanity, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
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Sticking with the audio sound bites, uh, up to number six.
This is George Will yesterday, round table.
ABC's this week.
They were talking about uh see Trump and Herman Kane.
It's George Will.
Between now and 2016, both parties have to do some serious thought as to whether they can develop some filter to prevent this process, particularly with this mad proliferation of debates from being hijacked by charlatans, entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial charlatans.
Who would you leave it as one of those?
Well, the one who dropped out, Mr. Kane, who used this as a book tour in the fundamentally disrespectful approach to the selection of presidents.
Now we have a December 27 debate proposed that would be moderated by Donald Trump.
Surely it is time for these candidates to do something presidential.
Stand up and say we're not going to be hijacked and participated.
All right.
Now, what is your initial reaction to that?
Because I have a bit of an alternative view.
Cain's out of the race, so we can move on.org from uh from that.
Whether he was doing a book tour, trying to up his speech fees, um, get a cable TV gig, what have you?
Some people say system worked.
George ought to not be as panicked as he is.
System worked.
No, it didn't, because system did not get rid of Obama.
System didn't inform anybody who Obama really was.
So now, the next thing is, okay, you Republican candidates, when are you gonna get some gonads?
When are you gonna stand up and say enough of the circus?
All these debates are bad enough, but now you're gonna be have one moderated by Trump.
Well, the alternative view is when are you Republicans going to stand up and stop letting all these liberal media outfits moderate your debate?
When are you Republican candidates going to stand up and finally assert that the media is not gonna pick which one of you wins this nomination?
Ergo, what's so bad About Trump moderating a debate, or about me or anybody else.
Why must these debates be moderated by the Wolfblitzers and the MSNBCs of the world?
For them to have any credibility.
Why must these Republican debates be moderated by people who have one objective and that's to see to it that whoever wins his nomination loses?
Let me put it a better way.
Why should these Republican candidates repeatedly subject themselves to debates moderated by people whose only objective is to see Obama win.
That's my take on this.
I've got no brief for Trump.
Don't misunderstand.
But I don't find this as reprehensible as George Will does.
I'm more alarmed that we have to put up with never-ending debates moderated by people who have as their express purpose the re-election of Barack Obama and the defeat of any of these Republican nominees.
Now I know the other side of this is hey, Rush, the media is what it is.
It isn't going to change.
And I agree with that.
I tell people who I get so sick of folks, you can't believe I I'm surprised I can do this show with a smile.
I I am so surrounded by negativism you can't believe it.
I was I went to dinner with some friends last night, and I actually started pounding the table.
I got so mad.
I hadn't seen him in a while, and they asked me what's going on.
I said, I can't I can't escape the negativism.
I don't know where I go.
Every meal email I open.
His the media's killing us.
What are you going to do about it?
The media, this, the media.
The media is who they are.
I understand this.
The media is who they are.
The media's not going to change.
And so Rush, having these Republicans participate in debates moderated by these people is good preparation for when they win the White House.
understand that thinking.
They've got to be able to deal with this media.
The media is hostile.
The media is always going to be hostile to Republicans and I understand that.
But at the same time, be nice if these Republicans stood up and said, Oh, let's do a debate moderated by some friends, just like Obama gets to do.
Well, every debate Obama's going to be in, every moderator is going to be one of his friends.
Every moderator is going to be oriented towards his reelection, and every moderator is going to be oriented towards our defeat.
These are Republican debates.
This is a Republican primary process where we ostensibly every Republican is trying to put their best foot forward.
So this cuts both ways as far as I'm concerned.
You can sit there and lament that Trump's going to be moderating a debate, but I can also lament the fact that every other debate we've had has been moderated by somebody who wants to kill whoever wins this nomination on our side.
Moving on.
Trump, not happy, obviously, this morning on Fox News Channel.
They had a discussion about the presidential race.
Gretchen Carlson said, You say that you may throw your hat in the ring again.
Is uh this the way to keep your name alive, sell some books, or are you really serious?
It's gonna be a long season, I predict.
But I'll be endorsing somebody, and I hope that person wins.
And if that person doesn't win, then I guess I'm a free agent because as you know, the show ends at a certain period of time, which is in May, and I'm a free agent, I could do whatever I want.
You know, people don't realize that if you have a show, you can't run because of equal time situations, and you're not allowed to run, which is I think is a terrible law.
Right.
He's talking about his uh uh uh apprentice show that ends in May, and he can't do anything on that show without having it come back to him in equal time and so forth.
I'm looking for something.
There's a somebody's written a hilarious piece here.
Did I put it at the top of the stack?
Somebody somebody's written a hilarious piece at whoever, every Republican that's gone by to visit Trump has ended up dropping out of sight afterwards.
Every and at Newt's time, Newt's going today.
Every Republican that's gone in and paid tribute to Trump has seen their numbers plummet shortly after.
And so that it's a humor piece, see what happens to Newt after he goes and visits.
I've got I'll find it somewhere.
Anyway, the next question was from from Gretchen Carlson.
Well, you say no, it was it was uh uh Clayton Morris.
Well, let's talk about the debate, Donald, because you took a lot of heat this weekend from entrenched conservatives, George Will among them, who said we need to get away from people like you moderating debates, these parties being hijacked by entrepreneurial charlatans like you and Herman Kane, basically saying he thought your idea moderating a debate was absurd.
What do you say to people like that this morning?
I've read George Will over the years.
He's third rate.
He makes so many wrong predictions.
And if you just follow his predictions, you'll find out he shouldn't even be doing what he does.
I think we'll have tremendous viewership.
We'll probably get the highest ratings on the debate, which is important when you're trying to get a message out.
So what is the network that this is on?
Is it the Ion network or the uh the Eon network?
It's it's don't bother looking it up.
No, but it but it's uh it's well I I never heard of the network w when I saw what it was on.
That's why I can't remember what it is.
But it's uh December twenty-seventh, two days after Christmas, and Trump is predicting record ratings for this debate.
George Will's third rate shouldn't be doing what he's doing.
Now Carl Rove drump dumps on Trump, also on Fox and Friends today.
Gretchen Carlson said to uh Carl Rove, okay, we had Trump on earlier today.
He's hosting this debate on December twenty-seventh.
Two of the candidates have said that they're not going to take part, Ron Paul and John Huntsman.
If you, Carl, were advising a candidate, would you advise him to take part in this debate?
They're all gonna get stuck going to his debate, but it's really odd.
It's on a cable network that is not well viewed, and it's gonna be a giant ego trip.
And anybody who thinks that Donald Trump is gonna be the equivalent of Brett Bear or any one of the other moderators we had is kidding themselves.
If you're gonna be a candidate, be a candidate.
Don't make a contingent upon whether or not your show is renewed or not.
How trivial is that?
How does it trivialize the most important decision that we Americans have, which is who we're gonna elect as our president?
Uh now we're worried about trivializing the uh presidential race.
Or trivializing the uh election.
Um so anyway, here we have Will, George Will dumping all over Trump and Kane.
Trump comes back and says George Will is third rate.
Look at his predictions.
He doesn't know what he's talking about, shouldn't be doing what he's doing.
Carl Rove comes back and says, if anybody thinks Trump's gonna be the equivalent of somebody who knows what they're doing, they have another thing coming.
So they went back to Trump.
They called him.
Here's what he said.
Carl Rove gave us George Bush.
And George Bush crashed and burned.
And because of that we have Obama.
And, you know, Carl Rove, I mean the problem that this, frankly, that the Republicans, they have to get rid of the Carl Roves, and they need fresh blood because Carl Rove is gonna lead them into doom.
Believe me.
All right, so here here we have here we have Barack Obama floundering.
Polls that are under worse than Jimmy Carter.
And look what's going on on the Republican side here.
Look what's happening here.
George Will goes after Trump and Kane.
Trump goes after Will.
Then he goes after, and then Rove goes after Trump, then they call Trump back at Fox and Friends, and Trump goes back after Rome.
Look at Rove gave us Bush, and Bush gave us Obama.
And these guys don't know what they're doing.
They're taking the Republican Party down the hill in the handbasket.
If we stick with guys like Rove, we're being led into doom.
We're not through.
Then on MSNBC of the Daily Rundown today, Chuck Todd interviewed Trump.
Todd says, You you you wanted to respond to the poll that says more Republicans in Iowa and New Hampshire say that your endorsement in the Republican primary would make them less likely to support that candidate.
What so F. Chuck Todd says, hey, Trump.
We got polling data here that says anybody you endorse, Republican voters say they will be less likely to support.
Let me just first start by saying that I was watching the show for about two minutes, and you said Donald Trump wanted to respond to a poll.
Well, I didn't even know what poll you're talking about, number one, Chuck.
Number two, I didn't call you.
You called me about 40 times trying to get me on the show.
So your statement is false.
You said, quote, Donald Trump wanted to respond to a poll.
Well, I didn't want to respond.
Your people called my office about 40 times asking me to go into the show.
So it's dishonest what you're saying, Chuck.
I wish you would just sort of say it like it is.
I think you'd really do better.
I actually think you'd get better ratings, you know, if you did that.
I'm doing NBC a favor by going on to your show.
That's uh Donald Trump taking it to F. Chuck.
You know, and this is a typical media ploy.
I'll give you, I saw an example of it.
I was watching a football game a couple of years ago.
And I don't, I don't want to embarrass the announced crew.
They're just football guys, but uh one of them got all excited, hey, look who's walked in here and asked to say hello.
Why, it's Dick Vermeal, a former coach of a St. Louis Rams, and Vermil sat down.
I I didn't ask to come in here.
You you guys invited me.
I was on my way somewhere else.
Somebody stopped me in the hall.
And the well, well, well, we're good.
glad to have you here.
I went on with a question.
Vermeule answered the question.
I got up and proceeded on down the hall.
So So apparently MSNBC said Trump called him, wanted to talk about this poll when they've been calling Trump, and they wanted him to answer this poll, which he didn't know about.
Trump is an NBC here.
He says, Chuck, I'm trying to help you.
You get better readings if you listen to me.
I do I have to do everything.
I just got an email during the break, and I read emails during the break.
I told you I read them, I do read them.
So, Russia, tell us all this.
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
What is all this just Trump rove George?
What does it all mean?
All right.
Notice who is on the attack.
Donald Trump is minding his own business.
He's agreed to moderate a debate on something called the Ion Network two days after Christmas.
All right.
Just that little thing has set off time bombs within the Republican establishment.
And they're all out attacking Donald Trump.
For moderating a debate.
Simply for moderating a debate.
They're out attacking Trump.
So, Trump being who he is, is going on television and making phone calls and defending himself.
Donald Trump is defending himself.
We're not used to this on the Republican side.
Our guys usually sent over, grab the ankle, say, here, hit me again.
I'm not going to sully the debate by defending myself.
Trump doesn't bend over and grabbing the ankles.
So Trump's now defending himself.
Why?
Because the establishment Republicans and the Democrats are attacking him.
They're ganging up on him.
As they ganged up on Sarah Palin.
As they ganged up on Christine O'Donnell, as they ganged up on Sharon Angel.
And dare I say, as they're ganging up on Tim Tebow.
Not the Republican establishment, but their equivalent in the sports media.
You see what's going on with Tebow is the same thing going on here.
Before Timo, Tebow got the starting job as a quarterback of the Denver Broncos.
Everybody who claims to know their salt in football said he can't succeed.
He's horrible.
Horrible mechanics.
College offense doesn't have a prayer.
He'd better fail or they look like fools.
He had better fail or they look like fools.
And so the media investment is in Tebow failing.
In the midst of winning five games in a row.
It's the same thing with Palin, folks.
They told us she was too stupid, too dumb.
They had to make sure she failed so that they don't look like idiots.
Ergo, it's Trump's turn now.
They're ganging up on Trump.
The Republican establishment and the Democrats together are ganging up on Trump as they ganged up on Palin as they ganged up on O'Donnell and Angle as a sports media's ganging up on Tebow.
And limited ways they gang up on me.
But I'm just saying how this works.
I don't care about me.
But you see, people are fighting back now.
Trump is fighting back.
What Trump is saying is, hey, Chuck Todd, hey, Carl Rove, you are not in charge of this election or any other election.
Hey, Chuck, you're an old-time Democrat staffer.
You don't get to tell me what to do on your show.
That's what Trump is doing here.
He's simply fighting back.
The Republican establishment, which can say Which contains elements of what you and I think of as the conservative media are trying to beat back anyone who threatens Romney in any way, shape, manner, or form.
It's just that simple.
That's what I make of this.
Trump didn't start, he disagreed into moderated debate.
And all hell broke loose.
It took about five minutes, and the Sunday shows were organized.
It's on some network nobody's ever heard of, except me.
The Ion Network, it's channel 305 on DirecTV.
FYI, but I don't have cable, so I don't know if your cable system has it.
I don't know what channel it would be on your cable system.
But the Tea Party is like Trump.
They don't care what the Washington Socialite inside the Beltway Republicans and Democrats have to say.
The Tea Party's the conservative movement.
By the way, uh Newt and Trump have uh announced, where is it, uh apprenticeships.
Newt and Trump have announced apprenticeships for ten needy kids in New York City to help teach them the work ethic in America.
Now stop and think of that.
We need a program, a special program to teach ten kids the work ethic.
Because if you work and earn money, you are the enemy in America today.
As we have only just begun here in the EIB network, Carpenters 1969.
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