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Jan. 12, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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You know, Warren Buffett is out there today doing something.
I don't care what he's doing.
Some challenge, some rich guy.
I'll match you and send money to the government.
Not my point.
But the fact that he's out there has reminded me of something.
Warren Buffett is the darling of the media, is he not?
Warren Buffett, loved and adored by the U.S. media.
Warren Buffett is envied.
Warren Buffett is a financial advisor to Obama.
Warren Buffett was a financial advisor to the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Warren Buffett is a hero to me.
Warren Buffett, everybody in business wants to be like Warren Buffett, right?
Everybody envies Warren Buffett.
Everything's the smartest guy in the world.
It's either him or Gates.
And Warren Buffett, look at his $45, $50, $60 billion.
Warren Buffett.
A darling of the media and of the Democrat Party.
Now, what does Warren Buffett do that is significantly different than what Romney did at Bain Capital?
That is my question.
In fact, ladies and gentlemen, by the way, this is me defending Romney better than he defends himself, just so you know.
You can argue that what Romney does is a lot more noble than what Warren Buffett does in this way.
Warren Buffett buys into fat, healthy companies.
I remember once us talking back in the, when, who was it, the primary owners of ABC, Cap Cities.
Remember, who was the headhunter?
I'm having a mental block.
His assistant was Burke.
Oh, I can't remember the CEO's name, Tom something or other.
I can't remember.
Anyway, Murphy.
Yeah, Murphy and Burke, the dynamic dude.
And I remember I had occasion to be in their presence one day, and they just happen to slip that they do whatever Warren Buffett wants done.
I mean, he was a huge investor at the time in Cap Cities ABC.
I just mentioned that, not as a criticism of anybody, don't misunderstand, just to say it's an illustration of how he buys into fat and healthy companies and then sucks a lot out of money, a lot of money out of them in management fees.
That's one of his strategeries.
Even though the companies were doing great, Bain Capital did under Romney and still to this day, Bain Capital goes in and tries to turn around companies that are on the rocks that may not survive.
And with a lot of these companies, it's usually a question of Bain or bankruptcy.
For example, if Bain had wanted to try to buy Solyndra and save him, would anybody in the regime have hated Baincap?
No way to loved him if Bain Capital would have moved in there and tried to help Solyndra.
As an example, as an illustration.
So, for many of these companies that Bain acquires, Bain's the last hope for these companies to stay in business and keep their employees.
Bain Capital saves, you can even say creates jobs, which is more than Obama has ever done.
But my only point is here that Warren Buffett essentially does the same thing.
I mean, a different strategy buys into healthy companies, but he's just as big a capitalist entrepreneur as Romney was.
And why is Buffett?
See, Buffett plays it smart strategically.
He says, Yeah, I'm not paying enough tax.
Oh, what a great guy.
What a great guy.
Okay, I'll pay even more taxes than I'm supposed to.
Oh, what a great guy.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the reasons why so many high-profile people spout the liberal line is just to prevent any heat descending on them.
Are you saying, Mr. Lembois, that Mr. Buffett doesn't really believe anything about taxes?
I don't know, but I'm telling you that what he says on taxes buys him a whole lot of insurance.
What he says about estate taxes, what he says about his family shouldn't keep anything of what he's earned, the government should get it all.
I guarantee it buys him a lot of goodwill in the media.
And I happen to know, and this, folks, this is a personal bugaboo of mine.
I just hate too strong a word.
I just pet peeve close to it.
I have a pet peeve with people who say and do whatever they do to curry favor with the media.
Phonies I hate.
I despise them.
I know it may be smart.
It's something I couldn't do.
I couldn't be that disingenuous.
And some people find it so easy to do.
I just have a resentment for it.
But I'll guarantee you that Warren Buffett could not have become Warren Buffet, believing what Barack Obama believes.
Warren Buffett could not have become Warren Buffett by having to live under policies implemented by Barack Obama.
If Barack Obama or somebody like him had been president during Buffett's life, there would be no Warren Buffett.
And I contend that Buffett knows it is my point.
But that Buffett has made a calculation and Gates and all these other guys make a calculation that they can go through life heat-free by simply saying they're pro-choice.
That's a big one.
That they are for open borders.
Let the illegal immigrants come in.
That they are for paying higher taxes.
If they spout the liberal line while living the pure capitalist lifestyle, they will be excused.
And in fact, they'll be heroes.
And other leftists will want to be just like them.
And then the media say, see, you can be a big lib and still be a big successful capitalist.
No, you can't, is the bottom line.
You can't.
So here's Romney, on the other hand, who's a much smaller version of Buffett and happens to be honest about it.
When he goes out, he says, well, yeah, you have to be able to fire people.
I like being able to fire people who aren't doing the right kind of job.
And that's controversial.
And that results in a statement that makes him politically weaker.
That's absurd.
It happens every day in this country.
It's absurd because it's a reality.
So are we supposed to go through political life not able to be honest in order to succeed?
Is that what we're being told?
You cannot be honest in politics and succeed.
You have to lie.
You have to make it up.
You have to have a spin policy, a PR strategist.
You have to say things that you don't believe in order to get where you want to go.
People getting fired is part of life.
It's nothing unique to capitalism.
It's nothing unique to humanity.
My gosh, there are people far, far worse than Romney, corporate ravenists, who love causing pain.
You've worked for them, probably.
And therein lies the problem.
Everybody hates the boss, and so you run around politically portraying Romney as your typical boss or your monopoly money bags guy.
And so you have that.
So Buffett, what Buffett is doing here, and he's not made this offer with the Democrats.
Buffett is currently offering to match with his money any increase in taxes the Republicans will agree to.
So he's putting pressure on the Republicans to raise taxes, and he'll match it.
He will match with his money any increase in taxes the Republicans will agree to.
Now, notice he has not made that offer with the Democrats.
And you know why?
Because not he doesn't have enough money to match a Democrat tax increase.
He has enough money to match a Republican tax increase, but he does not have enough money to match a Democrat tax increase, and he's smart enough to know it.
So Warren Buffett is not a serious tax increaser.
He wants you to think he is, all for the furtherance of an image that allows him to be insured or inoculated against mainstream criticism, mainstream media criticism.
That's what he seeks.
That's the vacuum in which he hopes.
In fact, not just that, he wants to be idolized by him, which he is.
So, yeah, and I know Cap City fired a lot of.
In fact, I'll tell you something.
I will tell you, if it weren't for the fact that Cap City fired people when they took over ABC, this show wouldn't exist.
The man who was my original syndication partner was given his walking papers when Cap Cities merged with ABC.
And part of his retirement package was two hours of satellite time that he was allowed to program and profit from if he could.
And after an exhaustive international search for talent, he found me.
And the rest is history.
And it wouldn't have happened if Cap Cities hadn't fired him.
And Bain Capital had nothing to do with it.
Ned Romney had nothing to do with it.
They got rid of a lot of people at work today, soap operas.
Oh, I've met Warren Buffett.
I've played Warren Buffett's charity golf.
I was on the way to Warren Buffett's golf tournament on 9-11.
When the Twin Towers are hit and FAA ordered everybody down, we had to get 45 minutes to get on the ground.
It wasn't enough time for me to get back home.
So I landed in some obscure airport around Orlando and had a drive back.
And I got here at 2.30.
I was on the way to Omaha.
It was going to be my second consecutive year playing in the Warren Buffett Carity Golf Tournament.
He's a nice guy.
He's funny as hell.
He's eminently likable.
No, I don't know everybody.
I don't know.
But I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just sitting here.
It's striking.
Buffett is twice three top five, whatever, Vain Capital.
And our guys don't even have the guts to go after Buffett.
Now, our side goes after Romney.
And I know why.
We've discussed it.
Some of the stuff, you know, Newt, Newt just is livid over the Super PAC, the ads that were run against him in Iowa, the payback time.
Now, Rick Santorum, Rick Santorum is even upset about it.
Santorum has defended Romney, and he doesn't like to.
He doesn't want to have to defend Romney because Romney's the frontrunner.
But Santorum says that this rhetoric coming out of the campaign ads for Newt and Perry is putting our whole free market system into question.
And he's right.
He said it's this hostile rhetoric, which unfortunately says, I don't want to stand here and be a defender of Mitt Romney.
But unfortunately, even some in our party now, even some running for president, will engage with respect to capitalism.
It's bad enough for Barack Obama to blame folks in business for causing problems in this country.
It's another thing for Republicans to join him.
And he's exactly right about that.
We have now, ladies and gentlemen, the audio from C-SPAN.
If you were not with us in the first hour, C-SPAN's being spammed by prank callers.
We have an example of it.
Play the audio.
Again, if you're made uncomfortable by the discussion of body heart parts below the waist, you don't want to listen.
It's not a big deal here, but I'm just, I don't want to shock anybody.
And if you don't like this stuff, I'll give you five seconds to tune out and come back in about a minute.
This is C-SPAN's Washington Journal.
Judd Gregg, former senator, Republican New Hampshire, is on the show and is doing a QA with callers.
The caller identified as Debbie from Londonberry.
And here is the call.
It's audio soundbite number 26.
Oh, the computer froze.
Uh-huh.
The computer froze.
First, I'd like to say that you were my governor and Congressman and Senator for some time, and we were pulling for you to run for president yourself.
But your support of Mitt Romney was supporting Mitt Romney as well.
And of course, Mitt Romney has very high expectations for the campaign and for his victory in the New Hampshire primary.
I was wondering, what size lead do you think he needs to avoid a disappointment?
And also, how big is Mitt Romney's penis?
Apologies, Governor.
And we'll be back.
You should have seen Judd Gregg's face.
Your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, tumult, chaos, distortion, and yes, even the good times.
Last night on MSNBC, one of the guests was managing editor Joy Ann Reed of something called Grio.com.
I never heard of it.
I don't even know why I'm promoting it, but she showed up.
And they were talking about the Republican primary, the attacks on Romney during his time at Bain Capitol.
And a host said, how do you think this is going to go in South Carolina?
You've got high unemployment down there.
It's a different dichotomy.
Whatever the hell that, what is a different dichotomy?
These people, I swear, you got people that do not know the definition of words.
A dichotomy?
It's a different dichotomy.
Do you know what a dichotomy is?
Do you know what a conundrum is?
You know, a difference in a conundrum and a dilemma.
A dilemma, you got two options, conundrum is three or more.
No, but what the hell is this?
I didn't just look it up.
I know it, but what was it?
It's a different dichotomy.
Here's South Carolina.
High unemployment, different dichotomy.
What's different dichotomy?
There's no different dichotomy.
Anyway, it doesn't sound good.
It might make somebody sound smart only because they think they're using a word people can't define.
But for those of us who can define it, it cements the fact that you're stupid.
Anyway, how do you think it's going to play down there, Joy Ann Reed?
The narrative is being implanted that Mitt Romney's company was a vulture capitalist, whatever your opinions on capitalism writ large.
And then I think it's forced him into this position where he's parroting the sort of Rush Limbaughisms.
Don't hate me because I'm rich.
I'm rich, and that's too bad if you're not.
That's not good for him in a general.
Don't think it stops him from winning, though, among Republican voters in South Carolina.
Rush limbaughisms?
So this babe thinks that this is forcing Romney to parrot me?
If Romney were parroting me, he would have the nomination sewn up.
Yeah.
No, it's the Rush Limbaughism.
Don't hate me because I'm rich.
I'm rich, and it's too bad if you're not.
I have not said that.
I haven't said you like that?
Well, it's maybe a good party line.
I haven't said, don't hate me because I'm rich.
I don't care if people hate me.
In fact, I know that people are going to hate me.
I don't care.
They're going to hate me for a whole host of reasons.
I think it is too bad that everybody's not rich.
But I can also say Obama's not the root to that.
Obama's not the root to rich for anybody.
Here's a montage.
Here's how the criticism of Newt has blown up in the evening news.
This is a montage NBC, ABC, and a couple of others.
It hasn't helped Perry and Gingrich in the polls much.
Both were distant finishers in Iowa and New Hampshire, nor has it helped win favor with conservative heavyweights like Rush Limbaugh.
I don't care what you think, folks.
The attacks that they mounted on Romney are not defensible.
Because of the attacks, the Romney team has been able to achieve one thing, rallying support from influential conservatives.
Newt and Perry blew it.
The attacks that they mounted on Romney are not defensible.
That's NBC Nightly News.
That's the NBC Nightly News.
And let's see.
This is yesterday, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Newt in South Carolina agreeing.
Now, this is, we had the report yesterday from Politico that Newt was walking back his criticism of Bain and Romney.
The Politico reported that.
Then after Politico reported, Newt said, no, I'm not.
I'm not walking it back.
I'm going to keep it up.
Here is what led to it all.
I think you've missed the target on the way you're addressing Romney's weaknesses.
I want to beg you to redirect and go after his obvious disingenuousness about his conservatism and lay off the corporatists versus the free market.
I think it's nuanced.
I would like you to.
I agree with you.
I think that it's an impossible theme to talk about with Obama in the background.
That Obama just makes it impossible to talk rationally in that area because he is so deeply into class warfare that automatically you get an echo effect, which as a Reagan Republican, it frankly never occurred to me until it happened.
So I agree with you entirely.
I'll tell you this.
Yeah, WTF Big Time.
Whiskey Tango.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Happy to have you along at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
There is some confusion out there on the Gingrich campaign as to how he is going to go forward because as you heard, he was confronted by a voter in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and the voter gave him a little static.
He says, why are you going after the guy this way?
Don't go after Romney this way.
And Newt said, you're right.
I'm not going to go after the guy.
And in fact, we had this yesterday afternoon.
This is the politico story.
It's right here.
Newt Gingrich on Bain attacks against Mitt Romney.
Quote, I crossed the line.
And then a subsequent story, Gingrich on misleading media reports, I never said I crossed the line.
So the Politico put a story, it was about 2.45 Eastern yesterday, close to the end of this program, and we reported it, that Newt said he had crossed the line, and we reported it was this guy in Spartanburg, South Carolina, who had made Newt realize he was going a little too far.
Then Newt comes out and says, no, I never said I crossed the line.
And furthermore, I'm going to keep attacking Romney.
So we're going to put this in context in order here.
Again, going back to Spartanburg, South Carolina at a book signing, this unidentified guy.
Although yesterday we had his name, Gosseloff or something.
Maybe it's a different guy.
If it's a different guy, there are two people that said something to Newt.
Anyway, here's that bite again.
I think you've missed the target on the way you're addressing Romney's weaknesses.
And I want to beg you to redirect and go after his obvious disingenuousness about his conservatism and lay off the corporatists versus the free market.
I think it's nuanced.
I would like you to.
I agree with you.
I think that it's an impossible theme to talk about with Obama in the background.
That Obama just makes it impossible to talk rationally in that area because he is so deeply into class warfare that automatically you get an echo effect, which said, as a Reagan Republican, it frankly never occurred to me until it happened.
So I agree with you entirely.
As a Reagan Republican, it frankly never occurred to me until it happened.
And I want to make sure I understand.
Is Newt saying it never occurred to him that his criticism of Romney as a capitalist Bain capital was the same kind of criticism that Obama and Democrats level against Republicans.
He wasn't aware of that until it happened.
Is that what he's saying?
If it may be true, folks, don't discount it.
We think these guys are very smart.
We think that they are able to anticipate how what they say is going to be reacted to and used.
But it's clear in this soundbite that Newt's saying, yeah, you know what?
I had no idea that Obama's saying the same stuff.
It took me saying it for me to learn that.
That's what that means.
As a Reagan Republican, frankly, it never occurred to me that Obama, the echo effect on class warfare until it happened.
So I agree with you entirely, he said to the caller.
Now we move on last night on the record with Greta Van Sustran on the Fox News channel.
She said, I'm going to sort of sort out this latest kerfuffle about the political headline, which seems to indicate you thought you'd crossed the line in the attack on Governor Romney and Bain, the venture capital firm that he worked for, was a partner at.
And then I see a statement by your representative which said that that headline's misleading, that you're not backing down on the aggressive attack on Bain Capital.
So where are we on this?
Well, first of all, I'm not attacking Bain Capital.
I'm questioning Mitt Romney's judgment.
I'm questioning Mitt Romney's decisions.
I've raised the question, which I think is a totally legitimate question.
What about some companies that Bain took over that went bankrupt?
And all I've said is, you know, this isn't about free enterprise.
I mean, this is one of those phony efforts to throw up a smokescreen.
This isn't about capitalism.
This isn't even about private equity funds.
This is about one person who wants to be president of the United States.
He owes the country an explanation.
Why were certain decisions made?
How were they done?
What was the consequence of them?
Does he stand by them in retrospect?
Okay, so it is obvious that Newt not backing down in the attack on Romney, even though he said he agreed with the guy in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
So then Greta said, so what I understand from what you said is you're not anti-venture capitalism, that you're pro-capitalism.
So let me ask you this.
At what point, though, is it sort of fair to sort of clamp down on venture capitalism?
Is there a point where there is abuse and it's not just sort of open season for venture capitalists to do whatever they want?
Well, I think there's always some boundaries of free market behavior that you watch and you check.
If Governor Romney thinks there's nothing there, he ought to just hold a press conference, walk the news media through it, explain how it was done, let people see it.
But I find it strange that they are so sensitive on this issue that they've sort of pushed the panic button.
But understand me.
This is not about free enterprise.
This is about the character, values, and judgment of a particular person who is running for president of the United States.
Okay.
So I get the walk back now.
What Newt's trying to do here is walk back his indictment of capitalism, and he's trying to focus it on Romney as a mean guy.
He's trying to get everybody focused like a laser on the idea that Romney is a cold-hearted, mean-spirited, heartless SOB who doesn't care who gets hurt as long as he profits.
That's how I read this.
He said, character.
He said he's got to look, we've got to look at the character, the values and judgment of a particular person who's running for president.
He did.
Character.
That's what Newt said.
Character, values, and judgment of particular persons.
He's walking back this whole notion that he's talking about capitalism and Bain.
He's right.
He wants to talk about the character and values and judgment of a particular person.
And I assume he doesn't.
No, he doesn't mean himself.
He's talking about Romney here.
It's about the character, values, and judgment of a particular person who is running for president of the United States.
That's what that's the character, values, and judgment of Mitt Romney.
That's what he's doing.
Now, we move to this morning, Fox and Friends, the guest, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Steve Doocy, the weather guy, said, you pick up the phone as soon as you're done and you say to Newt, what?
What the hell are you doing, Newt?
You believe what I expect this from Svalolinski, Newt.
This is what Svalolinski taught Barack Obama.
And the stuff you're saying is one of the reasons we're in the trouble we're in right now.
This total, ignorant, populist view of the economy that was proven to be incorrect with the Soviet Union, with Chinese communism.
I'm going to tell you this.
My emotional inclination is to support a Gingrich or a Perry or a Santorum.
I like their version of more consistent, long-term conservatism as opposed to Mitt.
So what they're doing to Mitt right now is totally, absolutely unfair and bad for the Republican Party.
See, this is fat.
This is there.
You know what Rudy's really ticked about here?
He didn't like Newt just like none of the other guys in 2008 like Newt.
Huckamie didn't like Newt.
McCain didn't like Newt.
Giuliani didn't like Newt.
He's got to defend Romney.
I mean, Romney.
They didn't like Romney in 2008.
None of them liked Romney.
But because of what Newt and Perry are doing, Giuliani's got to defend Romney, which he doesn't want to do.
That's what he's doing.
What are you doing, Newt, for crying out loud?
I would rather be supporting you or Perry or somebody, Santorum.
But my God, you're making, we've got to save capitalism here.
We got a Marxist in the White House.
We got somebody trying to destroy the country.
And you sound just like him.
We've got to defend the American way of life here.
And that means we've got to defend Romney.
And that ticks us off.
That's what's bugging people.
And that's why Beckle and the boys are rubbing their hands together in glee because they want Romney as the nominee.
And now all these Republican big names, they're even saying that about me.
That's what some of the salivating on the drive-by media cable shows.
Limbaugh forced to defend Romney.
And in Giuliani's case, it's very clear here.
You listen to that bite the way I listen to the bite.
Giuliani does not want to defend Romney.
But Newt is forcing him into it in a secondhand way.
What Giuliani is saying he's got to defend is capitalism and the American way of life.
Now let's keep going.
Sarah Palin.
I was not watching cable news last night, and I got a text message from a good friend of mine, Mr. Hawaii.
Mike Hartley, he has been hoping since two years ago that Sarah Palin would run for president.
Mike has been, I mean, just constantly peppering me.
You've got to do what you can do.
You've got to run.
She's the only hope rush.
She's the only, you've got to do everything you can.
I said, Mike, I don't know her.
I can't do anything about it.
You got to.
And when she got out of the race, he was devastated.
Handicapped went from a 24 to a 30 overnight.
And so he texts me last.
He watched Palin on Hannity.
And he texts me, and I could just, I read the text message, his tongue's hanging out.
Did you hear that?
She said, oh, she's going to get back in.
Oh, God, did you hear that?
I said, I write back, I'm sorry.
I didn't see it.
But, Mike, I know nobody as skilled as you at intuiting the intentions of women.
So I have to say, she might be thinking about it if that's what you thought.
Well, now, so we've got the soundbites of Palin.
Well, we got one soundbite of Palin, and this is Hannity says, Newt has backed off his criticism of Bain.
No, Sean, he didn't.
Okay.
Hannity says, Newt has backed off his criticism of Maine, but I had Governor Perry on a program last night.
He's doubled down.
Vulture capitalist, taking advantage of these companies in their hour of need.
You know, just turn a quick profit.
What do you think of those attacks in particular, Governor Palin?
Is that where, if you were running a campaign, would that be your line against Governor Romney?
Are they making a mistake?
Attacking the fundamentals of conservatism, which is we support capitalism?
I don't believe that that's really what is at the heart of Governor Perry's criticism of Romney and his time at Bain.
Governor Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain.
And, you know, people are wanting to know: is there proof of that claim?
Nobody should be surprised that things about Bain Capital and maybe tax returns not being released yet, and maybe some records not being as transparently provided to the public as voters deserve to see right now.
Don't be surprised that that's all coming out today because it would come out as an October surprise had these GOP candidates not brought those out today.
Whoa!
The mama bear, the mama bear wants mitts tax returns.
The way I heard that is, she wants Perry to rally.
She's not going to dump on Rick Perry.
I don't think that's at the heart of Governor Perry's criticism of Romney and his time at Bain.
But if he's going to run out there and say he created 100,000 jobs, let's see the tax return.
Let's see the proof.
Whoa, I'll tell you, folks, isn't it obvious?
2008, 2012, on the Republican side in the universe of potential presidential nominees, there's not a whole lot of love for Romney.
That's, I don't know, fascinating.
I got to take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Grab audio soundbite number 27.
By the way, on Hannity last night, Sarah Palin went out of the way not to endorse Newt.
And she went, Well, wait a minute.
Husband Todd Palin out there, he endorsed Newt.
She said Todd went rogue.
Todd went rogue.
Those of you who aren't married may not get the significance of that.
I remember back in one of the early Republican debates, I think it was Byron York asked Michelle Bachman a question.
If you happened to be elected president, would you be what was the submit to your husband because she is a devout believer in the word of God and the literal translationists believe that women are to subordinate themselves.
Would you submit to your husband, even as, meaning, would your husband really be running the show?
Now, I think that question is a little unfortunate, but imagine if it were asked of Sarah Palin, would you submit to your husband?
The first dude, the first dude went rogue.
That's exactly what you were.
Quote was, the first dude went rogue.
I don't know.
Sturdley asked me during the break, how do they put this back together with this much enmity?
With this, and no, Bachman doesn't, she's not submissive at all.
She's not a wallflower.
But, you know, when this is all over and there is a nominee, how do you get them all on stage?
You know, what they're all standing with, arms linked to hands together and upright.
How do you do it after this?
Because this is descending into vicious now.
Whereas the anger originally was pretty much focused at Romney, now it's focused at Newt and Perry with the existing anger at Romney still there.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, interviewed Rick Tyler, the super PAC senior advisor of Newts.
And during a discussion about the negative attack ads that Newts super PAC is running against Romney, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, and Rick Tyler had this 22-second tete.
You've got Rush Limbaugh, you've got Club for Growth calling it disgusting.
Do you not worry that you're helping to re-elect Barack Obama, which from your perspective would not be a good thing?
Oh, Andrea, do you think for a moment that David, that Axelrod doesn't know 20 times what I know about Mid at Bank Capital?
And then remember, we didn't run any ads till yesterday.
They're going to have a billion dollars.
All right.
Fairness, that was not the question.
The question is, why are you doing what Obama is going to do?
You're doing Obama's work for him.
That was her question.
She's not upset.
Don't misunderstand.
She's excited.
They all think that this is going to pave the way for Obama's re-election.
It's the fastest three hours in media, folks.
Two hours are already in the can.
And no, no, no.
No, no, I told Snerdley that they'll just pay them off.
Money speaks.
That's what Washington's all about.
They'll pay them all off and they'll end up on stage together with total unity.
It'll happen.
Don't worry about it.
I'll make a promise.
Those of you on hold on the phones will get to you relatively soon in the next hour.
I've only taken, what, one call today?
Is that one?
Wow.
Yes, I got to do a better job of that.
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