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Aug. 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 2, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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Okay, then let me clear it up.
People confused.
I just said before the break, Harry Reed would not be the focus of a of a felon investigation.
The felony issue applies to the leaker.
The felony issue applies to who it is talking to Harry Reed, this imaginary guy from Bane Capitol that Harry Reid says is calling him.
The felony issue applies to the leaker, and the reason for an investigation, the reason for an interview of Harry Reed is to determine the identity of the leaker.
That's who's breaking the law, and Harry Reed's facilitating it.
And then in the course of that investigation, were it to happen, now you and I know it's not going to happen, but were it to happen, if while interviewed by the FBI and the IRS, and even if not under oath, if Harry Reed lied about this, then he is subject to a 1-0-1 prosecution.
It's not perjury, but it's lying to a federal investigator.
You say Martha Stewart.
Process crime.
Now it's never going to happen, but this is a way to call Harry Reid's bluff.
Either he's lying to the American people now, or he has information that federal investigators might find useful.
It's one of the two things.
He's either lying that somebody from Bain Capitol called him and said Romney hadn't paid taxes in ten years, or somebody's out there breaking the law.
Somebody is out there potentially committing a felony.
And Harry Reid knows who it is.
Ah, but see, I don't know who it is.
I just answered the phone.
But the the point here, folks, would be to what we to call Harry Reid's bluff on this.
I thought we played the parodies and we've uh given you history.
This is a this is a page out of their playbook.
This is what they do.
They run around, they make all these wild allegations with no evidence whatsoever.
Then they demand that whoever it is they're alleging all this lawlessness confirm that they didn't do it.
Essentially go out prove a negative.
Anyway, welcome back.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network as the fastest week in media rolls right on.
Let's let's stick with the media.
I got a piece here by uh by Roger Simon.
In the politico.
And I know, folks, it gets tiresome talking about the bias of the media.
But this goes beyond media bias.
Now we're into, I think, what is genuine media corruption now.
With what these who was it?
I might have been John O'Sullivan writing at National Review.
I'm not certain.
But he called these guys running around asking Romney questions while he was at the tomb of the unknown soldier in Poland hecklers, not journalists.
And if whoever said that, whoever came up with that characterization is dead on right.
The media has become a bunch of hecklers.
They're not journalists seeking information.
They're not asking questions that are on the minds of the American people.
They're seeking to trip Romney up.
And so this trip, the foreign trip, the the words out, the reporting on this is that it was a debacle.
And it was a gaff-prone mistake that Romney shouldn't have never gone on that trip.
Never ever.
He shouldn't have left the country, shouldn't have gone to Great Britain, shouldn't have gone to Israel, shouldn't have gone to Poland.
He stepped on himself every time he opened his mouth, one gaff after another.
That's the template, and that's what they're reporting, and it doesn't matter what happens.
So it goes beyond media bias, even though even for me, it gets tiresome talking about this.
And who knows it may get tiresome for you to listen to.
But now and then an article comes along that that is perfectly illustrative of the game and shows their mindset.
And that's what this is from Roger Simon today.
Now Roger Simon is called Politico's chief political columnist.
And I suppose they call him that so as to allow him to write opinion as a news story.
But I think everything in the political is an opinion piece anyway.
But this piece here is not journalism.
It's not even thoughtful punditry.
It is the ravings of an adolescent and hysterical Obama fan who is beside himself.
They can't figure out why they haven't put Romney away yet.
They also can't figure out why Obama isn't up 70 to 30.
Although, I do have a soundbite coming up from F. Chuck Todd, who himself is surprised that Obama's still leading.
Oh, let's see what it's F. Chuck.
Let me find it here.
Let's see.
Where is it?
Number 14.
Yeah, he doesn't understand.
We may as well play.
It was on Charlie Rose last night, and uh Charlie Rose said, Look, there's this notion that the uh the president has more empathy.
Uh people who are polled care more about them.
I mean, that's something from my own political observation goes to the heart of likability, which is always a factor.
People out there, F Chuck, they just like Obama.
Well, what about that?
Sometimes I look at this political landscape, the economic landscape, and I say, how is the president ahead?
And so I actually look at this, I always ask another question to try to figure out what's wrong here with Romney.
Why isn't Mitt Romney already ahead?
And the fact is I keep coming back to a couple things.
One, he's not ahead because I think that he hasn't articulated who he is, and he's losing this values argument to Obama.
But the second thing, which we haven't brought up yet, but I want to get to, is I actually think that the Republican brand is still a mess with the middle of the American public, the independents and the sort of center right, center left folks who might be persuadable.
And that is serving as more of a drag on Romney than I think any of us talk about.
What in the will you talk about convoluted losing the values argument to Obama?
He says that the night of the Chick-fil-A event, losing the values argument to Obama, and the Republican brand is a mess with the middle, the American, the independence.
Has he seen the polling data on independence?
Is he looking at polls outside his own corrupt poll with the Wall Street Journal?
Romney Romney probably is ahead.
They've thrown everything at Romney.
They have spent so much, they've spent more than they've raised.
He's not even a celebrity of the U.S. He is the fundraiser in chief.
That's all he's doing.
And they can't put Romney away with the best stuff in their arsenal.
I'll tell you what this is all about.
I'll tell you why people are confused.
Genuine open-minded people.
Tell you why they're confused.
There was another piece on this today by Victor Davis Hansen at National Review.
It's what we that's talking about.
Here we talked about three weeks ago on this program, why the economy is not the dominant political factor that it traditionally always has been.
If the economy were as traditional, if it were just as big a factor as it was in 1992, Obama would be toast.
And so people are starting to ask themselves, wait a minute now, this economy, Forbes magazine, worst recovery since the Depression.
Forbes magazine, a guy has a piece out that you refer...
Yeah, Obama wins the goal for worst economic recovery ever.
Now, in the midst of the worst economic recovery ever, how is Obama still in the game?
And it's because of one of two things.
Either the American people have just thrown in the towel and have accepted that this is the new norm, or else all the polling data on this is skewed.
And it could be a combination of the two.
But we do know the polling data is skewed.
We do know that every poll out there, other than Rasmussen, is oversampling Democrats.
Every one of them.
We know that these people on the Democrat side are lying to themselves with their polls about how well Obama is doing.
Now, I think this Roger Simon piece, again, is illustrative of the panic.
Remember the template?
Romney, gaff after gaffe after gaff.
Listen to this.
Title of this piece, Mitt Romney needs a running mate to replace Flop.
Mitt Romney needs to announce his choice for VP quickly, very quickly, like within the hour.
It doesn't matter who he chooses.
Anybody will do, even Sarah Palin.
Hell, even Todd Palin.
Why?
Because Romney needs to change the narrative, the conversation, the buzz, the impression left by his recent foreign trip that he can't chew gum and chew gum at the same time.
A few days ago, I called Romney's trip a disaster.
I'd like to apologize.
It was a disaster wrapped in a debacle inside a calamity.
This is this is front page political stuff here.
You notice you notice how this guy, Simon is harping on the Palin family.
This is no accident.
It's Freudian.
He and the rest of the news media are trying to do to Romney what they did to Sarah Palin.
But this piece is instructive in two ways.
It shows the agenda at work behind the media's invention of Romney's overseas gaffes, and it shows the mindset at work at the politico.
He says here, the press is being attacked for making too much of Romney's gaffes, but why should we ignore what actually comes out of a candidate's mouth when he's forced to think?
Should we instead cover only the speeches meticulously crafted by his staff?
Or the TV ads in which every frame is painstakingly edited and often focus grouped in advance.
He goes on to talk about this was the most embarrassing trip.
Romney should not even be showing his face.
That's how bad the trip was.
One gaff after another.
And it's so bad Romney better pick a VP right now and take all the focus off himself.
The worst thing he can do is keep the focus on him.
If he doesn't get the focus off himself, it's over.
Now, folks, I know that you in this audience are above average informed, above average IQ, uh above average aware.
Does any of this ring a bell?
Do any of you before I read this, any of you think that Romney's trip was a disaster?
A disaster of epic proportions, so bad that even naming Todd Palin as his VP is something that would be helpful.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, they're telling us who they are.
Telling us more about them and their level of panic than they are about Romney or about us.
Now, companion piece, Washington Times by Dr. Milton Wolfe.
Does that name ring a bell, Dr. Milton Wolfe?
He's a Washington Times columnist.
He's a radiologist and President Obama's cousin.
And the title of his piece is, I'll say it, President Mitt Romney.
Conservatives growing enthusiasm is palpable and deserved.
Let me read you just a couple things from this.
During the frenzied slugfest days of the Republican primary season, even conservatives, who were skeptical of Romney, have found reason for optimism as desperation set in for his opponents, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, their attacks on Romney made them sound more like liberal class warriors than conservative Republicans until now.
Conservative support for Romney was based largely on this.
He's not Obama.
But that was then, and this is now.
Conservatives are finding reasons to not just vote for Romney, but to get excited about voting for him.
At long last, conservatives have found in Romney a presidential candidate who understands and can explain the free enterprise system that made America the most prosperous nation in the history of humankind.
The guy goes on to praise Romney.
He's making great strides.
He's connecting with the conservative base.
In this guy's opinion, Obama's cousin.
He's connecting with elements of the conservative base that really weren't jazzed or charged up during the primaries.
Now Snergley's in there frowning at that.
Um I have I have a I have a look, follow my instincts.
I have a sense that this guy's on to something.
I think he's more right than he is wrong.
But I still think, despite the best efforts of F. Chuck Todd and Roger Simon at Politico, this is all gonna come down to Barack Obama.
But folks, look, it really is dangerous to start speculating now.
We there any number of things here.
What are they 96 days or 97 days out now?
You've got Mahmood Ahmedini Zad once again suggesting that the world needs there to be no Israel.
He is now advocating that Israel be wiped off the map.
He did it again in as blunt, straightforward language as he's ever used.
So, just using that as an example, and we talk about the economy and what impact it might have.
What if Israel attacks Iran?
What if Iran messes around obviously so in the serious?
What happens if if if there is an al Qaeda terrorist attack?
What happens if Iran is attacked successfully by Israel?
Does that help Obama or not?
None of this is known.
There are all kinds of things.
Foreign dictators who without question would much prefer Obama in office.
They're saying so, and when they talk about this country, it doesn't differ much from the way Democrats talk.
If some foreign head honcho decides he wants to try to do something to help Obama's election in September, October, who knows.
Any number of things can happen out there.
And Ahmedineizad, don't forget, that's the guy Obama said we needed to negotiate with without any preconditions.
Well, you got the Muslim Brotherhood rising up in this Arab Spring, taking over the Middle East.
Militant Islam, Sharia.
And if if any of these people decide they want to play a role in this election, so it really is dangerous to start speculating on only what's known under the assumption that pretty much nothing else is gonna happen between now and because we know that's not true.
And now a brief time out, and when we come back to the phones, we will go.
Oh, yes, some excitement lurking there, folks.
Don't go away.
Let's start in Jacksonville, Florida.
Up first is Jason.
Thank you for the call, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, good afternoon, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh you've got a good show.
I really like it.
Um congratulations on your 24 years.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
Yeah, I've only been listening about a year.
And uh you you make a lot of good points.
I just sometimes, and I know I've heard you say you're persuasive.
Uh you're trying to persuade folks.
I I know what you're doing.
Uh I think you have a gr a much better show, though.
You had a kid call in here last week about some potato chips and being too much air in the bag.
And he he tried to speculate that it had something to do with President Obama.
And I just I don't know, man.
I mean, that's been going on for like years and years and years and years.
I just don't know why you didn't shoot that kid down and let him know.
Well, I tell you what, the young man was twelve years old, and uh it's obvious that his uh parents had put that idea in his head.
And I you you only been listening a year.
I uh I've I it's a very tough thing.
You have a 12-year-old on the phone.
I'd I try not to contradict uh parents.
I tried to treat that as lightheartedly as I could.
I can't figure out what Obama would have to do uh with so much air in a bag of layers potato chips.
Thank you.
I'm glad I'm glad.
I just want to get into two more points, and I'm gonna get up to this show.
I I I as a as an American citizen, I pay a lot of taxes uh a lot.
I've got a I do a 1099, I don't do 1040 easy lucky people.
Uh if Romney didn't pay taxes for the last ten years, it most certainly would bother me because he's going out here telling us that he knows how to, you know, his thing is money.
He comes from money, he knows how to deal with money, our country's bad economically right now.
Why don't there's no evidence he didn't pay his taxes?
In fact, in fact, he see you're very right.
If if if and and by the way, the name Dingy Harry is awesome.
That is an awesome nickname.
That's uh clever.
But if i if it's he's wrong and ri and Romney has paid taxes, then I think I think he somebody should, he should be brought to justice for that.
But if he has not paid taxes, he is no better than these illegal immigrants that are coming to this country and not paying taxes and and and getting all the benefits and and and the trying things.
Why do you why do you feel it necessary to participate in what is obviously an attempt to smear Romney?
How could he how could he have not paid taxes over the last ten years?
This is not even possible.
It's not possible.
He would have been audited by now.
After having paid so much for so many years, it's stupid.
The guy wants to run for president, he doesn't pay taxes for ten years.
You you're unwittingly falling into the trap here of helping to perpetrate a smear.
Well, I don't want to I don't want to I don't want to fall in.
Is he see my card affiliation?
See, my party, I you can help me out with this.
My card, I just got in the mail the other day.
It says NPA.
What's that?
No party affiliation.
Uh it says uh in I don't know.
Um I don't have a I don't I I used to I thought say swing on my card, but it says MPA.
And see I'm not I'm not left and I'm not right.
Um I'm somewhere in between and I kinda and and what I do is I'm not gonna be.
All right, look, look, I I got I got a commercial break here.
Hang on.
Don't don't don't hang up.
I hope.
I think Okay, back to Jason in Jacksonville.
You you were talking about your your party affiliation.
Yes, sir.
Okay, look it up.
NPA means no party affiliation.
Right.
You're right.
Right, okay.
Yeah, but yeah, see, so uh you know, and I'm not I'm not I'm not all the way left and I'm not all the way right.
I'm just I'm not one of those people.
But I've been since I've been listening to your show.
Wait, wait, wait, well, what does that mean?
You're not one of those people.
You're not all the way left or all the way right.
What is it?
I'm just not I'm just I'm not extreme anything.
I'm not an extreme leftist, I'm not an extreme right, and I've I've been listening to your show and how you describes you know these certain liberal behaviors.
And I oh I've been seeing, I've been seeing a lot of it, and it's amazing when you go out and you you're hanging around certain people and you see these attitudes and the way they behave.
But I don't I don't I don't necessarily think that you can stereotype people that way.
I think people vote depends based on their emotions, based on what's going on, the the the the uh Oh, they vote for all kinds of reasons.
Oh, yeah, all kinds of reasons.
I don't think it's just necessarily not everybody voting is very bright.
I mean, you gotta factor a lot of things in this.
Yes, sir.
Let me let me ask you one more question.
He um I know this isn't a sports talk show, but what do you feel?
I I just want to get your c your your belief on what do you feel about l let's go with football because I know you you like football and football's about to start.
How do you feel about athletes holding out for more money?
What what do you think when you when you hear about m athletes holding out and they're under contract and they're holding out for more money?
I think that they should do it.
They got b especially the way particularly with the new C BA and the NFL, um the length of time uh first round draft choice, second round, uh first two round, but the length of time that the team has an option on them is gone for three to four years.
They basic have got one window to make it.
They've got one window.
They've got after they play out their original contract, unless they hold out, they've got one window to score based on the average uh lifespan of an NFL player and so forth.
Um you're you're up against here the uh contract and you know whether to morally uh uh uh adhere to it or to ask for more based on based on performance.
Uh but I my attitude over this has changed over the years.
Um I used to think that it was disloyal to the team uh to to hold out.
Now I think if you've got the leverage, use it.
Absolutely.
One last question, sir.
How did you how did you get started in the business that you're in today?
How how'd you get started in in in this business?
How did I get started?
Yes, sir.
Uh my uh my my dad and mom bought me a thing called a Remco Caraville that will allowed me to broadcast in the house as a little toy that allowed me to broadcast in the house on any AM frequency that I set it to.
And I could play records and thought his little microphone and they sit around to listen to me.
I wanted to do that ever since I was eight years old.
Well, that's interesting.
I went down I went to Dallas, Texas when I was sixteen, and I got my first class radio telephone license, which was then a requirement by the Federal Communications Commission.
I was down there for six weeks, had to pass all kinds of arduous tests.
I was the youngest one in the school by five years.
I actually got out in four weeks.
I aced it so well, I was so motivated.
I was so inspired.
I wanted to get that license and I wanted to get back home and see if I could get on the air.
Well, congratulations, sir, you did just that.
Hey, I really appreciate you so and uh you have a great day, sir.
Thanks for the call.
Jason in Jacksonville, Florida.
And who's next?
Uh Bill in Keller, Texas.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing today?
Very well, sir.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, I heard you talking earlier about uh someone who had called you about uh uh Obama's Harvard experience.
And uh I've had some questions too that I've been uh kind of wondering about.
I went to Occidental College uh quite a few years of course before uh uh Obama, but uh tremendous uh difficulty getting in that school.
You have to be uh uh in like the upper fifth percent of your high school class, you have to be involved in extracurricular activities.
They like it if you're a uh uh uh student body officer, uh captain of the football team, those kinds of things.
And I've wondered the entire four years that uh the president has been in office, how in the world he ever got in there because according to his book, he was such a reprobate in um high school, and wondered if you had any thoughts on that.
Uh how he got into Occidental?
Yeah.
I don't see how he did based on the.
Well, you would know better than I you went there.
Yes, I did.
So what what what what what do you think it could be?
Well, uh that that's what I don't understand.
I can't imagine how a young man who claims that he was such a uh uh failure in high school could possibly have qualified to get in one of at that time one of the most prestigious colleges on the West Coast.
Let me ask you a question.
Yeah.
Only you know the answer.
Um what are we talking?
What years are we talking?
Are we talking the nineties, late eighties here?
Um did Occidental have an affirmative action program that you're aware of.
Uh not when I went there.
They did not.
But they did, I'm sure, when uh uh when Obama uh went there.
So you're thinking that that could possibly what uh be what allowed him to get in?
Well, if what you say is trip, the entrance requirements are what they are.
Um the affirmative action was a program designed to uh allow people in who otherwise wouldn't get in on the premise that they've been discriminated against most of their lives because of their skin color.
And uh as such, um uh these these uh universities uh and any business that had any interaction, regulatory or otherwise, with the federal government, they implemented these programs and they took them to the uh two degrees that weren't even required just out of fear of the government harassing them.
So uh I I remember the uh when I was in Pittsburgh uh and the affirmative action hit, they started at at a r at radio stations all over town.
They started hiring women who had never been on the radio before just to satisfy the requirement because their their license is gonna be up for renewal soon, and they had to keep the federal government off their back.
They had the affirmative action requirements.
Um this was a big, big deal in the 70s and 80s.
Huge deal.
Yeah.
Well, the the uh and I thought about that too, but then I wondered also uh what what uh uh I wonder why he left Oxy.
I can't help but but think about his his time spent at that school.
Because I remember how difficult it was for me, and I was uh uh, you know, in like the top fifth uh uh uh uh five.
Well, look, his wife, uh Michelle My Bell Obama has said that she would never have gotten into Princeton if it hadn't been for affirmative action.
Yeah, that must have been it.
And I'm wondering if uh why he left and went uh uh back to the East Coast.
Uh wondered if he just couldn't couldn't hack it.
Is there any way that anybody could ever find out uh uh about his uh college background?
Sure.
Somebody somebody from there could call me.
Uh some somebody that that went to school with Obama at Occidental could call me.
Well, if anybody, uh admissions office, uh whoever knows, uh somebody from Occidental could call me, and then I can tell you what they said.
Well, it's just like I got the call uh a little over an hour ago from Harvard.
You remember during the the first commercial break of the first hour.
I had a call.
I was told to take I don't I don't use the phone.
I don't I don't like the phone.
I you folks, you know.
I panic when I hear a phone ring.
I either get panic or irritated.
It could it it I've got to do something about it, because it it has the potential to ruin five minutes after it happens.
It's nothing ever any good when the phone rings.
Nothing.
It's always a problem.
There's something always wrong.
Nothing ever good happen other than taking phone calls here, but I never hear it ring.
I went to my cell phone rings or the phone at home, uh-oh.
But they said you better take this one.
So I picked it up during the break, and it was somebody from Harvard, and they said that that Obama got the worst records or worst grades of anybody in the history of Harvard, and that professors were covering for him when he wasn't even going to class.
And then the guy was gone.
So uh now the allegations out there, and I think Obama has to deal with it.
Obama is is gonna have to explain.
Is it is it really true?
You got the worst grades in the history of Harvard?
Because I got a call.
I got a call from a guy said he went to Harvard, knows this.
What do we do, folks?
What do we do about it?
L Rushbo, have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair for everybody.
Otherwise it'd be bloody every day on this program.
Here's Terry in Philadelphia.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome.
Hi, Russ.
You are truly a brilliant man.
I I have to tell you, every day I listen to your show.
Um, you know, I was sitting here in the car and I'm thinking as you're going through this article about all these criticisms of Matt Romney, and he'd better hurry up and name his vice president.
When did you uh I was thinking of it in terms of, okay, let's put Obama in there instead of Romney and see how this plays out.
I guess Joe Biden had to pick a new vice president.
But it says nobody ever talks about Obama in the ways that they talk about Romney.
And I was listening to that litany of trash that you were referring to that of how the news coverage is for Romney, and it's really scary.
It's just the orders have gone out and throughout all of the mainstream media.
And it is Romney gaffe after gaff after gaff on his foreign trip.
No matter what happened, no matter what he said, we're reporting it as gaffes.
The reason that they heckled him with the questions was so that they could report that he had no answers and that he appeared flummoxed and stymied and out of place and uh didn't know what he was doing.
But you're right, you'll never, you have never seen a story like that about Obama in political.
And try it, and try and put Obama's name in what you're doing.
But you can easily put George W. Bush's name in there.
You can put any Republican's name in there, but you will never see a story of that tone and uh with that purpose written about any Democrat.
That's that's shameful.
It's absolutely shameful, and thank you so much for doing what you do.
You bet, thank you.
Speaking of which, let's go to the audio soundbikes late yesterday afternoon, CNN's newsroom.
The anchorette.
Brooke Baldwin is speaking with the political correspondent, Shannon Travis about Ted Cruz and his primary victory over David Dewhurst.
And Baldwin said, What's going on in Texas?
Good lordy out there.
Shannon, you've been following the Tea Party since the beginning.
Are they back?
Did they ever leave?
Have they been working out in local campaigns like this in Texas?
There's an old song lyric that says don't call it a comeback.
They've been here for years.
This is not really a comeback.
The Tea Party has been quietly working behind the scenes.
You've seen less of the rallies, less of the people going out pounding the pavement, and really more of them quietly negotiating, adopting, if you will, some of the tactics of the political parties, the political establishment that they abhor in a lot of ways, adopting some of those try-and-true strategies of building up their staffing offices, building up their volunteers, knocking on doors, and that's what they've quietly been doing.
This Cruz victory really just represents the latest in their trek towards a hostile takeover of Washington.
Oh, yeah.
Hostile takeover of Washington.
The Tea Party is engaged in a hostile take.
Have you ever heard any group of Democrats who wish to win elections being described as engaged in a hostile takeover?
It's like when the Republicans took over the House in 1994.
When the Republicans took control of the House in 1994.
The Tea Party engaged in a hostile takeover.
They're winning elections.
I'll tell you what the Tea Party is trying to do.
The Tea Party is trying to take over the Republican Party.
And the Tea Party is trying to get rid of Harry Reid.
The Tea Party is attempting to secure the United States Senate for conservative leadership.
That's exactly what they're trying to do.
Now, our elections hostile takeovers.
You note the language that uh in the story yesterday we had about the Cruz victory again in the politico.
And it's a one-way street.
Caller from Philadelphia is exactly right.
Here's Mark McKinnon.
Now, McKinnon ran all the media for Bush in uh 2000 and 2004.
And McKinnon, uh, by reputation, media pro.
He is a leader in this no labels group.
Now, who are the no labels people?
They're basically disaffected liberals.
They they're they're liberals, moderates, liberals, but they don't want to be called that.
So they're they're no labels.
They're they're better than moderates and better than independents because they're not labeled anything.
He was on CBS this morning today, and the uh co-host was Charlie Rose, and the question the victory that Ted Cruz had in Texas, does it further divide the Republican Party or not?
Ted Cruz is not a typical Tea Party candidate.
I mean, he is a very thoughtful guy.
He's very conservative.
But he is a very, very smart guy.
Not to suggest that other Tea Party candidates aren't.
But I think that he I think he's been cast as a sort of typical Tea Party guy, and he's not.
I think he's gonna bring a lot to the table for conservatives.
He can kind of create a different persona for many the conservatives on the Tea Party side and kind of change a little bit of the branding of the Tea Party.
Oh, he meant to say exactly what he said, didn't he?
Not a typical Tea Party candidate.
I mean, he's very thoughtful, very conservative, very, very smart guy.
Now, I don't mean to suggest the other Tea Party.
Well, you don't have to suggest it.
You said it, Mark.
You said it.
Cruz is not a typical Tea Party candidate.
I mean, he's a very thoughtful guy.
He's very conservative, very, very smart.
Not a typical Tea Party candidate.
But nevertheless, nevertheless, McKinnon likes the guy.
Now, who's labeling people now?
The no Labels guy is out labeling guys.
Cruz went to Princeton.
He graduated Magna cum loud from uh from Harvard Law.
And I'll bet you we could see his transcripts.
If uh uh he was Supreme Court litigator, and he is a real conservative scholar.
He's not like all those other Tea Party people.
Birth certificate?
B Cruz's birth certificate?
Oh, I'm sure.
Oh, yeah.
I well, I don't know.
I I'm assuming that yeah, uh there he'd show you the birth certificate.
I don't know.
Well, what are you trying to stir things up in there for?
I don't know if he I'm sure he would.
Anyway, not your typical Tea Party guy, folks.
Very smart, very, very thoughtful guy, very conservative, not your typical Tea Party.
I don't mean to say the other Tea Party candidates aren't, but they're not, let's be honest.
Okay, let's take a break, folks.
We'll be back and continue.
Forge on I talked about Stanley Kurtz and his uh his new book that is out.
Spreading the wealth, how Obama is robbing the suburbs to pay for the cities.
And there's a a piece that he has at National Review expounding on this.
I'll share a little bit of that when the uh program resumes at the top of the next hour.
We've got a boatload of fabulous audio sound bites yet to come.
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