Rush Limbaugh Program - August 12, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
Aired: 2013-08-12
Duration: 35:09


=== Bezos Buys the Washington Post (02:14) ===

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[00:01:02]  You know, one of the things I'm going to start doing, the Washington Post was sold for $250 million to Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
[00:01:12]  And I just, folks, it is fascinating to listen to Washington establishment types describe Bezos as apolitical.
[00:01:23]  I mean, even Republicans have joined this course.
[00:01:25]  Oh, yeah, the post is going to have some really good days in it.
[00:01:29]  But this Bezos guy, he's not a political guy at all.
[00:01:31]  No, he just donates to every Democrat under the sun in the state of Washington, and he's a leader in funding and support for gay marriage, but he's not partisan.
[00:01:42]  And then the Boston Globe sold for $70 million.
[00:01:46]  That's not even as much as they pay their second baseman, the Red Sox.
[00:01:50]  So I'm going to start paying attention to news stories from these papers.
[00:01:56]  Now, the new owners haven't taken over yet.

=== Checklight: Lighting the Path to Safety (03:19) ===

[00:01:59]  So the journalists there are still in various states of shock.
[00:02:03]  But it's still fascinating to look at what they put out.
[00:02:07]  Now, here's one from the Boston Globe, and it's an editorial.
[00:02:12]  This is not on the sports page.
[00:02:15]  It's about football and lighting the path to a safer game.
[00:02:22]  Here's the editorial from the Boston Globe on this.
[00:02:24]  The macho nature of football makes it difficult for fogged and staggering players to take themselves off the field after concussive blows to the head.
[00:02:37]  And even the most vigilant coaches and parents find it difficult to judge the severity of an impact to the helmet.
[00:02:46]  But the Cambridge Body Monitor Company, MC10 and Reebok, have invented a skull cap with sensors and LED lights that can be worn underneath helmets.
[00:03:00]  It's called checklight, and the device flashes yellow for a moderate blow and red for a severe blow.
[00:03:09]  And it also keeps a running count of the less severe blows, flashing a warning when the number crosses 100.
[00:03:21]  So these are the skull caps.
[00:03:23]  They look just like the skull caps that are now worn by players underneath their helmets.
[00:03:28]  Do you know the real reason they wear those skull caps now?
[00:03:32]  To protect the hairdo, it's to keep the helmet from putting the weird helmet shapes there in the, it's to avoid getting helmet hair.
[00:03:45]  So they wear those skull caps that mashes it all.
[00:03:48]  It's also their absorptive.
[00:03:55]  What?
[00:03:55]  Had a what called helmet hair?
[00:03:58]  Oh, yeah, Byron Dorgan, Byron Dorgan helmet head.
[00:04:01]  But that was been hit.
[00:04:02]  His hair looked like a helmet, not because of what the helmet did.
[00:04:07]  Byron Dorgan, that's good memory.
[00:04:09]  Anyway, so the skull cap is going to have electric sensors in it and lights.
[00:04:17]  And it's going to light up yellow or red depending on the severity of the blow.
[00:04:21]  And that will tell coaches and parents whether they need to get the player out of there.
[00:04:26]  And then the cap will tally up severe blows and lesser blows.
[00:04:31]  And when the number passes 100, then you got to sit out.
[00:04:36]  I mean, it doesn't say specifically what has to happen.
[00:04:40]  But I don't know what I don't know what the magic of this is at all.
[00:04:48]  We're now turning it over to a couple of companies that claim this skull cap can measure the severity.
[00:04:56]  I'm telling you, this game is, I can't, I have to, I don't know how to properly express this.
[00:05:02]  The preseason started, actually last week, the Hall of Fame game.

=== Obamacare's Impact on Health Care (14:32) ===

[00:05:07]  But Saturday night, this past weekend was the first weekend of the NFL preseason.
[00:05:14]  And Saturday night, the Giants were in Pittsburgh to play the Steelers, and I didn't even know.
[00:05:22]  I'm ashamed to admit, I'm not only just ashamed to, I'm a little afraid that all of this politics that has permeated football, it just for some reason, it doesn't have the same, I'm not nearly as anticipatory.
[00:05:46]  I do know the Steelers lost.
[00:05:48]  I mean, I saw some of the game.
[00:05:49]  I got emails, what do you think of the Steelers?
[00:05:52]  What are the Steelers on?
[00:05:53]  They said, yeah, NFL networks.
[00:05:54]  Oh, I was watching Oprah reruns.
[00:05:58]  I said, all right, well, anyway, anyway, I probably get into it once the season starts, but I'm telling you it's being chickified.
[00:06:14]  The whole thing, everything in our culture is being chickified.
[00:06:19]  And some things are fine, but not everything.
[00:06:22]  We'll just have to see.
[00:06:25]  Now, the Washington Post story is about Hillary and her presidential campaign in 2016.
[00:06:30]  Now, this is not an editorial, it's a news story.
[00:06:32]  Headline: Hillary Clinton's theme pre-2016: Women Who Break Barriers.
[00:06:40]  Hillary Robin Clinton took a Toronto stage in June before 5,000 supporters, many of them women, and many looking for a hint that she might run for president in 2016, and she gave them one.
[00:06:54]  So here we have, it's automatic.
[00:06:56]  Now she's going to run, and it's automatic.
[00:06:58]  Donna Brazil's out there saying, oh, if she does run, it's a coronation.
[00:07:01]  We don't even need to have the campaign.
[00:07:04]  And remind you, I don't think she's going to be the Democrat nominee.
[00:07:10]  I've been wrong on one of these predictions before, but only once.
[00:07:15]  I didn't think she'd run for the New York Senate, but she did.
[00:07:18]  But if she does run, this story is right.
[00:07:22]  She's going to run as the first woman ever.
[00:07:26]  And if she does get the nomination, and if she does win, that will be why.
[00:07:31]  The Democrats have learned something here profound.
[00:07:33]  You've got the first black president.
[00:07:35]  He's immune from criticism.
[00:07:36]  You cannot criticize the guy.
[00:07:38]  Any criticism is racism.
[00:07:41]  We have a president of the United States who cannot be criticized.
[00:07:44]  His policies cannot be criticized, not credibly.
[00:07:48]  Anybody who tries is diminished and dismissed as a racist or a bigot.
[00:07:55]  And so Obama can get away with anything he wants.
[00:07:59]  And I get Democrats have seen this.
[00:08:00]  So imagine if we had the first female president, same thing.
[00:08:04]  Any criticism, sexist.
[00:08:07]  Any criticism, unjust.
[00:08:09]  Any criticism, unwarranted.
[00:08:11]  Any criticism, not real.
[00:08:13]  Any criticism, not substantive.
[00:08:16]  It's all based in anti-woman.
[00:08:18]  It's all based on the Republican war on women.
[00:08:21]  It's not based on anything substantive.
[00:08:24]  The Democrats modus operandi is to eliminate opposition, and this is one of the ways they do it.
[00:08:32]  And then after Hillary, they'll move for the first Hispanic president.
[00:08:35]  And the same thing will repeat.
[00:08:37]  No criticism of the first.
[00:08:40]  After that, they'll need to get the first gay president, and no criticism allowed there.
[00:08:45]  Then after that, the first transgendered president.
[00:08:48]  After that, the first, I don't know, from Mars, whatever.
[00:08:52]  But it's going to be a protracted policy, I think, that they're going to keep trying to implement.
[00:08:58]  And it's being heralded here in the Washington Post: her theme: women who break barriers.
[00:09:04]  What barrier is there left for Hillary to break?
[00:09:09]  She's already broken the barrier, other than first female president, but she's going to run, and she'll run on the basis that it's a biased, unjust, unfair country because of Republicans.
[00:09:25]  Here, grab Sun by the 11th, show you how this works.
[00:09:27]  This is Obama, and this is from his press conference on Friday, which, you know, interestingly started after this program.
[00:09:36]  Normally, Obama does these things at 1 o'clock Eastern Time while this program is going on.
[00:09:43]  And the objective there is to get some of our stations to bump out of this program and carry the presser.
[00:09:48]  But this time, he did it after this program.
[00:09:52]  So there would be no possible commentary about the press conference from me.
[00:09:59]  So he's talking about the Republicans and Obamacare.
[00:10:06]  And listen to this.
[00:10:06]  This is, it cuts to the quick.
[00:10:08]  My friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail, their number one priority.
[00:10:19]  The one unifying principle in the Republican Party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care.
[00:10:28]  That's hard to understand as an agenda that is going to strengthen our middle class.
[00:10:35]  At least they used to say, well, we're going to replace it with something better.
[00:10:39]  There's not even a pretense now that they're going to replace it with something better.
[00:10:44]  Now, this is his characterization to low-information voters of the Republican effort to repeal this because it is an abject failure.
[00:10:54]  Do you realize after Obamacare is fully implemented, and for any of you out there in the low-information crowd, well, normally you know who you are, but people in the low-information do not know that they're low-information.
[00:11:11]  I mean, the poor know they're poor.
[00:11:12]  The fat know they're fat.
[00:11:14]  The ugly know they're ugly.
[00:11:16]  Low-information people do not know that they're low-information.
[00:11:19]  They don't think of themselves that way.
[00:11:21]  Nobody does.
[00:11:23]  That's why when Romney starts talking about the 47% that will never support him, I mean, it wasn't the best thing to say, but most people in that group would not admit that they're in that group.
[00:11:33]  So they could act righteously indignant that Romney would treat other people that way.
[00:11:39]  But even after Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million Americans are still not going to have health insurance.
[00:11:45]  In fact, a lot more than that are not going to have it because it's going to be so expensive.
[00:11:52]  But my friends in the other party have made the idea preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail.
[00:11:59]  So in a press conference, there's Obama saying the Republican Party doesn't want you to have health care.
[00:12:05]  Not health insurance.
[00:12:07]  The Republican Party doesn't want you to get treated.
[00:12:12]  It is patently absurd.
[00:12:14]  There's nothing to back that up that is an absolutely irresponsible allegation.
[00:12:20]  But he makes it with impunity.
[00:12:22]  Nobody in the press corps challenges him on it.
[00:12:24]  And the low information voters pick up on it.
[00:12:26]  Yeah, yeah, the Republicans hate people.
[00:12:29]  They don't want anybody to get well.
[00:12:30]  You get sick, die.
[00:12:31]  That's what the Republicans want.
[00:12:33]  And this is what people end up thinking.
[00:12:36]  When the entire anti-healthcare effort is based in saving the best health care system the world has ever had, Obamacare destroys it.
[00:12:50]  Obamacare makes it unaffordable.
[00:12:52]  Obamacare, I just, I got an email from a female doctor who's treated me in the past for an ailment.
[00:13:00]  Doesn't matter which one.
[00:13:03]  And she's a liberal, by the way.
[00:13:05]  Sends me this note talking about how impossible it already is to comply with this, and she's thinking of leaving the profession.
[00:13:15]  Just it's unworkable.
[00:13:18]  And she was talking about all the mess that electronic health records are and have become, and the place where she works is just more suited for a reality TV show than a genuine health care center.
[00:13:34]  And this is happening all over the place.
[00:13:36]  I mean, Obamacare is what is destroying the American health care system.
[00:13:41]  Obamacare is what's pricing it out of reach by design.
[00:13:46]  And like Dingy Harry says, we are but one step away from single payer.
[00:13:54]  It's in the Las Vegas Sun.
[00:13:56]  Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry said he thinks the country has to work our way past insurance-based health care.
[00:14:07]  He was on a local PBS show in Vegas on a Friday night called Nevada Week in Review.
[00:14:14]  When asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing health care, Dingy Harry said, yes, absolutely.
[00:14:31]  We cannot have a decent health care system that requires people to have insurance.
[00:14:39]  Well, that's exactly what they're doing.
[00:14:43]  Every week, there's a new story of this company here, that company there, pulling out of that state exchange over there, that state exchange over there, because it's not profitable to stay in it.
[00:14:56]  And the objective of Obamacare from the get-go has to eliminate, has been to eliminate private sector insurance as an option for people so that they have nowhere to go but government-run enterprises, be they the state exchanges or whatever eventually replaces them.
[00:15:16]  The idea of introducing a single-payer national health care system to the U.S. sent lawmakers into a tizzy back in 2009 when Dingy Harry was negotiating the health care bill.
[00:15:30]  But what's happened here is that he has slipped up.
[00:15:33]  The mask has come off.
[00:15:35]  And in this instance, Harry Reid has told the country what the end game has always been when it comes to Obamacare.
[00:15:46]  If you take insurance out of the game, Then, what do you do for your health care?
[00:15:52]  Your employer no longer provides it.
[00:15:56]  You have to go to the federal government.
[00:15:58]  They're going to end up running it.
[00:16:00]  That's what he means.
[00:16:03]  And we're just one step away from it, one step away.
[00:16:07]  And that one step is getting rid of insurance.
[00:16:12]  In another story, the Las Vegas Sun story, I just read it, treated you to does not mention this.
[00:16:20]  But one of the things that Dingy Harry talked about on this TV show Friday night was blaming employer-sponsored health care as a benefit for the current morass.
[00:16:31]  And he was accurate.
[00:16:33]  He told people it started in World War II.
[00:16:36]  In World War II, General Motors and others needed, everybody needed qualified, really qualified employees.
[00:16:46]  And somebody came up with the idea of adding health insurance as a benefit to employment.
[00:16:53]  And that's where the whole notion of employer-provided health insurance began as a benefit.
[00:17:00]  And Harry Reid cited it.
[00:17:02]  The post-World War II auto-industry labor negotiations that made employer-backed health insurance the norm, so we've never been able to work our way out of that.
[00:17:15]  Now, what he's saying is that's been the obstacle to single-payer, which is something they've dreamed about for as long as you've been alive.
[00:17:25]  But as long as you were able to get health insurance from your boss, you were satisfied.
[00:17:30]  It's a great benefit.
[00:17:32]  And they're in the process of tearing that down.
[00:17:35]  And he just admitted it.
[00:17:36]  It's just out there now.
[00:17:38]  And that's why the repeal of this thing is so important.
[00:17:44]  At least, even if it can't happen, an issue where the Republicans can distinguish themselves.
[00:17:48]  I got to take a quick timeout.
[00:17:50]  Now, there were wage and price controls in World War II.
[00:17:55]  This is so silly.
[00:17:56]  This always has their wage and price controls.
[00:17:58]  So employers had to improvise and come up with new ways of paying people because there were controls on wages.
[00:18:08]  And that's where employer-provided health insurance was born as a benefit and a way around wage and price controls.
[00:18:16]  And what Harry Reid is saying here is that's where the whole thing broke down.
[00:18:20]  That's where the whole effort was derailed to go government-run health care.
[00:18:25]  The unions were big on this too, so it's a little bit of an anti-union statement as well.
[00:18:31]  Chris in Moultrie, Georgia.
[00:18:33]  You're next.
[00:18:34]  Great to have you on the EIB network.
[00:18:35]  Hello, sir.
[00:18:36]  Megan's Rush.
[00:18:37]  How are you today?
[00:18:38]  Fine.
[00:18:38]  Thank you, sir.
[00:18:40]  Yeah, my comment was referenced to the story earlier about Ryan's Priebus announcing that the Republican candidates were going to not participate in the debates with, I guess, CDS and NBC.
[00:18:54]  I think he's right on.
[00:18:56]  I think if you exhibit any of that, is John McCain and CrossS in 2008 how you call John McCain was the darling of the media.
[00:19:06]  And as soon as we elected him as our nominee, they turned on him.
[00:19:11]  Yeah, everybody saw that coming for years except McCain.
[00:19:17]  He was the last guy to see it.
[00:19:19]  It's actually CNN and NBC that are doing the Hillary show that Reince Priebus was talking about avoiding.

=== Challenge to God's Creation (04:38) ===

[00:19:30]  You don't even have to go back to McCain.
[00:19:33]  You just have to go to January of 2012.
[00:19:38]  And that's when the whole war on women started with a question of Mitt Romney by George Stephanopoulos.
[00:19:45]  Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
[00:19:50]  Very concerned with fairness here at the EIB network.
[00:19:53]  Other items in the news besides all this other boring stuff.
[00:19:56]  John Kerry, our esteemed Secretary of State, said that climate change is our challenge, a challenge to our responsibilities as the safeguarders of God's creation.
[00:20:20]  The safeguarders.
[00:20:22]  It would obviously be the safe guardians.
[00:20:26]  The safeguarders.
[00:20:29]  So John Kerry says that climate change is a challenge to our responsibility as the safeguarders of God's creation.
[00:20:38]  What about God's creation called a fetus?
[00:20:42]  Secretary Kerry, what is your responsibility as a safeguarder there?
[00:20:52]  See, in my humble opinion, folks, if you believe in God, then intellectually you cannot believe in man-made global warming.
[00:21:05]  You must be either agnostic or atheistic to believe that man controls something he can't create.
[00:21:19]  It's always, in fact, been one of the reasons for my anti-man-made global warming stance.
[00:21:28]  The vanity, I mean, these people, on the one hand, we're no different than a mouse or a rat, being listening to animal rights activists.
[00:21:37]  We are the pollutants of this planet.
[00:21:40]  If it weren't for humanity, the militant environmentalist wackos, if it weren't for humanity, the earth would be pristine and wonderful and beautiful, and nobody would see it.
[00:21:52]  According to them, we are different.
[00:21:54]  We are not as entitled to life on this planet as other creatures because we destroy it.
[00:22:02]  But how can we destroy it when we're no different than the lowest life forms?
[00:22:08]  And then on the other end, the vanity and the arrogance, we are so powerful and we are so impotent, omnipotent, that we can destroy.
[00:22:21]  We can't even stop a rain shower, but we can destroy the climate.
[00:22:28]  And how?
[00:22:29]  With barbecue pits and automobiles, particularly SUVs.
[00:22:34]  It's absurd.
[00:22:36]  But nevertheless, the esteemed secretary running around saying that climate change is a challenge to our responsibilities as the safeguarders of God's creation.
[00:22:51]  Just ask him, what about God's creation called a fetus?
[00:22:57]  Weiner, Huma's husband.
[00:23:02]  This is this poor guy, no matter what he does.
[00:23:06]  This is in the New York Post.
[00:23:09]  He was campaigning in Astoria, Queens, personally, running around pounding the pavement, and he put several flyers into mailboxes.
[00:23:18]  Did you hear about this?
[00:23:22]  He put flyers promoting his candidacy into mailboxes, people's houses.
[00:23:29]  And he was told, you know, you might be violating postal regulations.
[00:23:35]  You can't do that.
[00:23:36]  Those things have to be delivered by the postman, mailman, mailwomen.
[00:23:43]  And his spokeswoman said, and I kid you not, I think if it's not all the way in, it's okay.

=== Combative Newport Parents (11:24) ===

[00:23:56]  If it's not all the way in, we can do it.
[00:24:03]  This is like Clinton.
[00:24:04]  There wasn't any sex in there.
[00:24:06]  Obal office.
[00:24:06]  There was just some Lewinsky's going on, but there wasn't asex in there.
[00:24:09]  Besides, it didn't affect the way I did my job.
[00:24:12]  I'm screwing people anyway.
[00:24:13]  What's the difference?
[00:24:16]  And then there was the client number nine excuse.
[00:24:24]  And Clinton again saying, well, I didn't inhale.
[00:24:27]  So now Wiener's press secret.
[00:24:29]  No, no, no.
[00:24:30]  We can put anything in there as long as it's not all the way in.
[00:24:36]  Just amazing.
[00:24:36]  A judge in Newport, Tennessee, Newport mother, wanted to name her child Messiah.
[00:24:46]  You hear about this.
[00:24:47]  Yeah.
[00:24:48]  Newport mother is appealing a judge's decision because the judge ordered her to change the name.
[00:24:56]  The judge said, you can't name your kid Messiah.
[00:25:00]  Jaleeesa Martin and the father of Messiah couldn't agree on a last name.
[00:25:05]  It's how they ended up at a child support hearing in Cook County on Thursday.
[00:25:11]  And that's when the first name came into question.
[00:25:14]  Child support magistrate Luann Ballou, which is a great name for a judge in Newport, Tennessee.
[00:25:21]  Lou Ann Ballou serves the 4th Judicial District of Tennessee.
[00:25:26]  And she ordered the name changed to, I think, Martin or McCullough or could not use the name Messiah.
[00:25:38]  She said, the word Messiah is a title, and it's a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ.
[00:25:47]  Until I read that, I thought the story was about Obama.
[00:25:52]  I thought the judge, no, we already have a Messiah, and it's Obama.
[00:25:56]  Now, you know, this is going to be reversed.
[00:25:59]  I mean, some judge is going to reverse this, because this is First Amendment all the way.
[00:26:04]  I mean, how many people in the world are named Jesus?
[00:26:11]  And they don't make those people change their names.
[00:26:14]  So, no, no, not Blue.
[00:26:19]  Baloo is her last name.
[00:26:22]  Baloo.
[00:26:24]  It's spelled B-A-L-L-E-U.
[00:26:28]  You probably thought it was something else.
[00:26:30]  But her Judge Ballou, I just think it's a great name for a judge in Tennessee.
[00:26:39]  Like, what was the Buford T. Justice was the name of a state trooper and a Burt Reynolds.
[00:26:51]  Jackie Gleason played the character.
[00:26:53]  Buford T. Justice.
[00:26:55]  It was just a perfect name.
[00:26:56]  CVS, the pharmacy.
[00:26:58]  CVS pharmacy customers are being asked for ID when they buy nail polish remover.
[00:27:08]  The policy has been rolled out across southern New England in the past few weeks.
[00:27:14]  It means that customers must show ID and will be limited on the number of bottles of nail polish remover they can buy.
[00:27:23]  The drugstore chain said that the rule is an attempt to curb the making of meth amphetamine.
[00:27:30]  It's got acetone in it, and acetone is one of the ingredients in crystal meth.
[00:27:35]  So now a valid ID must be presented to purchase any product containing acetone, and that includes nail polish remover.
[00:27:44]  So an ID to buy nail polish, but we can't require an ID to vote.
[00:27:53]  Well, I don't know.
[00:27:55]  Congressional Black Caucasians know about it.
[00:27:57]  I don't know.
[00:27:59]  Who?
[00:27:59]  Eric Holder?
[00:28:00]  No, Holder's too busy reducing the sentences for drug offenders.
[00:28:05]  You heard about that.
[00:28:08]  That'll make the Reverend Jackson happy.
[00:28:10]  All right, I got to take a quick timeout, but we'll be back.
[00:28:12]  More of your phone calls.
[00:28:13]  Await, don't go away.
[00:28:17]  And back to the phones to Indianapolis.
[00:28:19]  This is John.
[00:28:19]  Welcome, sir.
[00:28:20]  Great to have you on the EIB Network.
[00:28:22]  Hi.
[00:28:23]  Andrew Luck Dittos from Indianapolis Rush.
[00:28:26]  Wanted to just say that I hope that the Reince Priebus, Monica, not Monica, but the Crowley scrimmage is the first of many.
[00:28:34]  It's high time conservatives are combative against these media types on their shows.
[00:28:40]  It's time, and I voted for Newt Gingrich a year ago in the Indiana primary.
[00:28:44]  The race was over, but I voted for him in part because he was willing to stand up to those people.
[00:28:49]  And you've got to be willing to say, that's a stupid question.
[00:28:52]  Next question, you need to say, I reject the premise of your question.
[00:28:56]  They need to be more combative.
[00:28:57]  The press is part of the enemy.
[00:29:00]  I know you know that.
[00:29:01]  What I'm arguing for is a strategy of direct, on-camera combativeness.
[00:29:07]  Because let me ask you a question.
[00:29:10]  Newt also, I think it was in South Carolina where he pulled that off.
[00:29:13]  Newt got standing O's a couple of times in the South Carolina debate because he did exactly what you just said.
[00:29:19]  He rejected the, he did two things.
[00:29:21]  He rejected the premise of the question and then with substance spelled out what our policies really are when it comes to the poor and owning businesses and becoming prosperous.
[00:29:34]  And the audience could not help themselves.
[00:29:36]  They stood up and applauded.
[00:29:38]  Two things happened.
[00:29:39]  He rejected the premise of a question, but he also articulated correctly what conservative policy is on something.
[00:29:48]  So let me ask you, what would you rather see in a debate?
[00:29:51]  Would you rather see Republican conservative policy honestly expressed in a non-combative way where people can see it on display?
[00:30:03]  Or do you just want the combat?
[00:30:05]  Do you just want these guys pounding on the media and giving them what for?
[00:30:10]  Well, when you're dealing with a left-wing media nut job like CNN, then the combat.
[00:30:16]  But if it's a reasonable forum, then no.
[00:30:18]  You don't have to be combative.
[00:30:19]  But only be combative when you need to.
[00:30:21]  The problem is on Beat the Press or Mason, on these regular news shows, like that little sissy on NBC, you have to be combative.
[00:30:30]  You have to reject the premise.
[00:30:31]  You have to say no.
[00:30:33]  They're not going to do that.
[00:30:34]  They have to.
[00:30:35]  What Priebus is essentially saying is they're not going to do that.
[00:30:38]  They're going to go someplace where they don't have to be combative.
[00:30:41]  Oh, well, but the problem with that, Rush, is you can't reach the left-wing nutjobs that are only watching those shows.
[00:30:47]  And you have to reach them to some extent, don't you think?
[00:30:52]  I'd say right now, the Republican problem is their base.
[00:30:57]  If the Republican Party does not solidify...
[00:31:01]  The Republican Party doesn't like its base right now.
[00:31:03]  The reason that everything that has you upset is happening is because the Republicans are trying to rid themselves of the conservative, the pro-life, anti-amnesty immigration crowd.
[00:31:17]  They're trying to rid the party of that base.
[00:31:20]  I think that's what's really, it's not the sole reason they're doing what they're doing, but it's one of the primary reasons.
[00:31:26]  But if they lose us, they become the Whigs and they disappear.
[00:31:30]  Of course.
[00:31:31]  And they're willing to do that for a couple of cycles until they get a new base.
[00:31:37]  It doesn't make any sense, but that is one of the only explanations I can come up with.
[00:31:42]  The reason why what you said is important, there was a town meeting in last week, and I think it was Maryland, I forget where, but a bunch of people showed up, Republican towns, a bunch of people showed up saying exactly what you said.
[00:31:56]  Whoever this congressman was, his audience said, when are you going to stand up and push back for us?
[00:32:04]  When are you going to disagree?
[00:32:05]  When are you going to fight back?
[00:32:07]  When are you going to stop accepting?
[00:32:10]  There's an entire element here, people like you, who are not being represented, no matter what the forum is.
[00:32:19]  And it's gotten to the point now where we have so many voters on our side that would just be happy for a little pushback, whether it results in victory or not.
[00:32:32]  They're just tired of seeing this polite, inside-the-belt way political speak that's not persuasive of anything to anybody.
[00:32:43]  So I understand where you're coming from.
[00:32:45]  I know exactly what you mean.
[00:32:49]  But is, I know you talk about you can't reach the left unless you go on left-wing places, and this is one of the reasons why they do it.
[00:32:56]  But they're not reaching the left the way it's happening.
[00:32:59]  And remember, the Democrats have told them, if you get mad and start criticizing Democrats, the Independents aren't going to like it.
[00:33:06]  So the Republicans try to be reasonable and polite and there's no way they're going to overcome the branding that's happened that way.
[00:33:21]  So the option, what Priebus is thinking here, is just go someplace where you don't have to be combative.
[00:33:28]  You can just articulate the policy, represent people as they are, and let them be seen espousing their beliefs and their ideology and policy and this kind of thing.
[00:33:39]  And he's got a point of it.
[00:33:41]  There is literally no reason why, particularly in Republican primaries, that you have 20 debates moderated by Democrats, disguised journalists.
[00:33:51]  It just doesn't make any sense because they're not candidates.
[00:33:54]  They're suspects.
[00:33:56]  And they don't get questions.
[00:33:59]  They're accused.
[00:34:01]  They get charged with things.
[00:34:03]  Do you hate women?
[00:34:04]  Do you hate blacks?
[00:34:05]  Do you hate almost?
[00:34:08]  That's all it is.
[00:34:09]  And so every one of these people ends up on defensive.
[00:34:11]  No, I love it.
[00:34:14]  It's a losing and being combative in that circumstance.
[00:34:17]  Newt did it once, and he still didn't get the nomination.
[00:34:21]  And after he did that, then the rules went out.
[00:34:24]  Audience cannot applaud.
[00:34:26]  Audience must stay seated and remain polite.
[00:34:31]  So forth.
[00:34:33]  Well, I don't think we do have to.
[00:34:35]  Well, I have to answer that tomorrow because I've got dwindling time here.
[00:34:38]  Snerdley says, why do debates at all?
[00:34:40]  He says, Priebus, let's not debate.
[00:34:42]  Let's sit around and get all these candidates just discussing with friendly people moderating a discussion.
[00:34:46]  I'm sure that's what he means.
[00:34:48]  Well, not a bad show today, considering there wasn't one thing interesting happening out there.
[00:34:55]  This was a pretty good show, considering there wasn't one thing worth talking about today.
[00:35:01]  Not one, but we made it work, folks, and that's the beauty of the EIB network.
[00:35:06]  And we'll do it again tomorrow, whether there's anything to talk about or not.