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Nov. 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 11, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
You know, I'm sitting here, and there's a part of me that's embarrassed because I suspected it, but I didn't have the guts to go there.
I knew this thing in Mizzou was a hoax.
I knew the whole thing had to begin with a hoax, and we know that it did.
There were there were two hoax that got this whole thing started.
There was never a swastika of poop.
It was totally made up.
And the real thing that got this this butler kid, this guy that the hunger strike, he comes from a wealthy family in Nebraska.
His father is a railroad executive, but he lost his health care in his undergraduate, something to do with his health care gap because of Obamacare.
And those two things are what triggered this, and everything else that happened after that was a result of the kind of anti-white privilege, which is a meme, by the way.
I want to make a prediction in future Republican debates.
At some point that term white privilege is going to be brought up, and and these guys are going to have to be ready because the question, would you define the white privilege that's governed your life?
It's going to be something like that.
That's one of the things that's governed this.
We have been we've we've the signs were there, should have picked up on it.
All these college kids stories we've had the last couple of years, white kids running around professing their guilt at their white privilege, we should have known, just should have known, should have been able to put two and two together.
Anyway, details on all this coming up as the program unfolds before your very eyes, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, the telephone numbers 800-282-2882, and the uh the email address, Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
It was just uh last couple of days, another MU student claimed that the KKK was on campus.
And it turns out he totally made it up.
The whole thing was practically a hoax.
Every bit of it, none of it, very little of it was real, and certainly the allegations of blatant racism and all this were totally made up and manufactured.
And I I have been suspicious, excuse me.
I've been suspicious of this stuff, because I, you know, I know liberals, I understand who these people are.
Uh, but the reporting on this made it sound like it was legit and so forth, but I have I've learned my lessons the last time, folks.
The last time I'm gonna buy into into garbage like this, without I didn't buy into this, it's just I didn't voice my my real true sentiments about this.
And I really missed our guys beating up on the media last night in a debate.
Did you watch the debates last night?
I really missed that.
I I uh you know, some of the drive-bys are saying it was boring last night.
Here, I'll give it grab somebody's two and three.
Let me ex- let me let me illustrate to you.
Here's Charlie Rose leading off.
This is the beginning of the CBS uh this morning show, just this morning.
Welcome to CBS This morning on this Veterans Day.
The latest Republican presidential debate reveals sharp policy divisions among the candidates, unlike their last primetime debate, they did not complain about the questions, and the focus this morning is on their answers.
Damn it.
You can just hear damn it in his voice.
Damn it, we wanted to be focused to be anything but the issues.
We wanted the focus to be anything but what do you think?
Mr. Snerdley Little Pomp quiz, no wrong answer, it's an opinion.
What do you think was one of the most revelatory not people things issues last night?
What was one of the most I'll I'll tell you what it is, in fact, just to show you I'm not I think when Cruz, this is another thing, you know, I feel like apologizing you people for for letting this go and not clarifying this, because I've just assumed I make too many assumptions here based on my belief in the uh uh awareness and intelligence of people.
When Ted Cruz said, you people are missing the point, I'm paraphrasing here.
Illegal immigrants, I'm sick and tired of me being called anti-immigrant.
I'm not anti-immigrant.
Do you people not understand this is an economic issue?
We are destroying people's wages.
We are importing low-skilled, low-educated people.
We are hurting the economics of American citizens.
Bingo.
Cruz's point was that he's fed up with all these allegations to be anti this and anti-that, anti-immigrant, when he's pro-American.
But the point that that illegal immigration, it's been right in front of my face.
Maybe, maybe it's something you all have realized long ago.
I mean, I knew it, it's just I haven't voiced this either.
The people pushing, including Kasich.
I'm thinking of doing a Kasich impersonation today, by the way.
I did for Snerdling, he says, you've got to do this on the air.
I said, I'm afraid if I start doing my Kasich impersonation on the air, I may start uttering profanities.
And then the broadcast engineer just sit up there bleep this and bleep that.
I don't know.
But I'm thinking about it.
You know, Jeb and Kasich and all these other guys, they look at it as a civil rights issue, and the left looks at it as a civil rights issue.
They almost look at it as a racial, racial issue.
And it's not.
To me, it's never been a civil rights issue, but to them it is.
These are the poor of the world, and they are people of color, and they are coming here wanting to improve their lives.
And who are we to say no?
So for them, they think it's an act of compassion to welcome them in.
And if we disagree with ignoring the law, then we are called racists.
And it's not about that at all.
It's about sustaining the U.S. economy, the job market, the wage base, all these kinds of things.
Anyway, uh the subject of immigration, of course, was the big subject last night.
And in fact, Jeb even woke up uh during that that just to show you how much he cares about this.
He came alive.
But I thought one of the most telling lines when they're discussing all this, and Jeb says, Well, you know, there, you know, you talk about deporting people, you're gonna deport people, 11 million, 12 million people.
You realize they're doing handstands and applauding over to Clinton campaign, and Trump comes in.
Have you ever heard of Ike?
I like Ike, Dwight Eisenhower.
You're gonna Ike, I like Ike, we like Ike, everybody likes it.
You know what I did?
I got rid of a million and a half of them.
He deported but it wouldn't even be done.
And of course the other two guys, you know, their Bruce Babbitt routine, trying to uh respond to it.
But I really, I really do think, you know, what here's what Cruz said.
When the mainstream media covers immigration, it doesn't see it as an economic issue.
But I can tell you for millions of Americans at home watching this, it's a very personal economic issue.
He's exactly right.
And this is something, again, I'm feeling a little embarrassed having not voiced this myself yet, wouldn't it think it feel it's the primary aspect of this issue.
It's an economics, plus illegal.
It's legal and economics.
There's no civil rights here, there's no compassion here, and it's not it's not racist at all.
The way the left looks at this is why it's so destructive.
We're supposed to tear down our country, we're supposed to wreck our economy for compassion.
Anyway, Cruz said, I will say the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande.
And at first the crowd didn't get it.
You could hear some rumbling and a little, but you didn't hear bankers and what, but then when Cruz said, or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the media, then you would see an entirely different take on this issue from the drive-by media, and he's exactly right.
And uh and and made the point uh extremely well.
But I think the most fiery moment last night came when the candidates talked about Trump's plan to deport illegal aliens.
It matters so much Jeb came alive.
Uh and Trump was entirely correct to point out the history, what Eisenhower did.
And I don't think Trump went far enough, actually.
In reality, Harry Truman, another Democrat president, deported illegal aliens over 3.4 million.
Did you know that?
You did not know about Harry Truman?
Well, then I'm happy to be able to inform you.
Harry Truman deported illegal aliens, 3.4 million of them.
You add that to the 2.1 million Ike deported, or who left on their own at the time, nearly six million illegal aliens were deported or left voluntarily under those who two highly beloved presidents, the country didn't fall apart, and we didn't become a bunch of racists overnight.
We didn't lose our compassion, we didn't lose our big hearts.
And again, I remind you, there wasn't any immigration.
The reason why these were deportations, because there wasn't any immigration from like 1924 to 1965.
And in those years is when Eisenhower and Truman served.
I mean, there was illegal immigration.
We got rid of them.
I know that sounds harsh.
We deported them.
They were breaking the law.
And at the time, of course, the Truman and Eisenhower were in the midst of a post-war, particularly with Eisenhower, post-war economic boom, and there was no way we were going to dilute it and water it down by allowing people to break the law and come into the country.
And here's Kasich and Bush.
You can't do that.
You can't break up these families.
You can't see these people apart so forth and so on.
Like so many other things in history, we did, and we can.
But overall, uh, folks, the drive-by is not happy because the issues were on the plate.
Here's F. Chuck Todd on the Today Show today with Willie Geist.
Uh question, not a ton of fireworks in the debate last night, Chuck, but there was something radical, policy.
See?
Conservatives discussing policy.
It's radical.
Yes, you see how this works.
They talked about taxes, Chuck.
They talked about spending.
They talked about immigration.
Radical stuff, Chuck.
Who did that benefit the most?
Do you think, Chuck?
I think it hurt the two frontrunners.
Because I think Donald Trump and Ben Carson both struggled when it came into some policy details.
Marco Rubio, he never got challenged at all.
He got to sort of stay on script.
Totally ducked the immigration issue.
I don't think we're going to remember this debate in two days.
No, we're not going to.
You know why?
Because there were no fireworks because the media didn't go after and try to destroy these guys.
That's why it was boring.
Yeah, it was boring.
Nobody's going to remember it.
F. Chuck and the boys hate this.
You see, the purpose of a Republican debate is for the drive-by media to make them look bad.
The objective of the drive-by media is to take them out.
The objective of the media in every Republican debate is to get rid of at least one of the candidates.
And last night, not one of the candidates was gotten rid of.
In fact, a lot of the candidates either held steady or might have shored up their position.
Not that it's going to matter to much in the end.
And everybody's misunderstanding Trump on this.
And I but before Trump, Cruz Awesome last night.
Post-debate polling shows it.
Marco, awesome last night.
Carly was good last night, but the problem with Carly is we won't hear from her again until the next debate.
What's she doing with these?
You know, she's getting a rave reviews on these.
Trump.
Would you make her stop interrupting?
She's just interrupting.
Trump gets booed for that.
Privately applauded and so forth.
And one of my favorite things, I'm sorry, folks, but one of my one of my favorite was Trump.
Come on, let's let Jeb talk, okay?
We let Jeb talk.
Do you realize how?
Do you realize how I'm cold?
I mean, that that folks was that was brutal.
That was brutal in so many ways, and then added to it later on, Jeb thanked Trump for letting him speak.
Tried to be jocular about it.
But now these guys in the drive-by's are upset because there weren't any fireworks.
Discussion, Republican issues, and boring, radical, nothing to see, nothing to do.
Problem is the media didn't make a name for themselves.
The media stayed out of the way.
Even when the Barn Berner arguments got it, uh, got started, the media kind of backed out for a while until they had to start ringing that infernal chime, whatever it was to denote the time limit, had uh had been reached.
Ben Carson uh opened up much more energetic than he had been, everybody says he's got the best clothes of the night, his closing remarks, uh consensus opinion from all the analysts was that Carson's clothes was the best.
But the thing about Trump is that uh the drive-by saying, you know, Trump's uh we don't hear from Trump much.
He doesn't say much in East Deputy, he's not nearly as fiery.
Uh and that's not true.
Trump.
There's a there's a theory.
No, it's not a theory, it's an adage.
And it is applicable to a lot of things.
You cannot be hurt by what you don't say.
By the same token, a music radio station cannot be hurt by a song it doesn't play.
Or record it doesn't play.
The way radio station gets hurt is people tune out.
So you hear a song, oh, I don't like that song.
Hit the button, change stations, listen to something else.
But if you don't play a song that people don't like, that won't happen to you.
So it's same thing with words.
You if you you cannot be hurt by something you don't say.
Unless, look, there's exceptions.
Unless you are set up like Romney.
Romney was hurt by something he didn't say in a debate with Obama over Benghazi.
He was set up with a hanging curveball, and they decided not to go there because they thought they were cleaning up and they were going to be nice guys and be above the fray.
But oh, speaking of which, have you seen the Drudge homepage?
I told you, I told you three weeks ago Hillary's wearing wigs.
I observed three weeks ago that she's trying different wigs and asking what about, and now it's official.
She is trying out different wigs.
It's right there, it's a lead item on Drudge.
She's got hair problems out there.
It's an old adage, folks.
Never let them see your scalp.
Just like never ever let them see you sweat.
Okay.
So we have debate sound bites.
Further analysis of the debates and debate and the people in the debate, the candidates last night.
I didn't see the undercard.
Um other things are going on.
I just I just didn't, and I haven't seen any replays.
The only thing I know about the undercard, everybody's raving about Bobby Gendal.
And Bobby Gendal apparently had some sort of uh very clever insult of Christie's gonna give him a participation ribbon and a juice box.
Anyone know what that juice box thing means?
Juice box.
Well, no, I think there's more to it than that.
I think well, I don't I don't feel comfortable because I'm not sure what it is here.
But I that there's a reason.
There's a reason that Gendal starts mocking or making fun of Christy by saying, here's your participation ribbon and a juice box.
I mean, do you drink juice out of a box?
Right.
I know I know what they are.
Yes, I know what they are.
The little kids, yes, I know.
Right, right, right.
But but I look, I can't I can't take this where I think it goes.
Just trust me on this.
It isn't a big deal anyway.
You're not missing anything by my not saying it.
And I'm putting into play here, can't be hurt by something I don't say.
Okay, a couple of more audio sum by questions.
No, no, I'm thinking about it.
Snerdley continuing to pester me about my Kasich impersonation.
Apparently, everybody was irritated by Kasich.
I mean, the analysts and the uh the media people watching and writing about it.
He really rubbed some people.
I mean, I haven't found anybody yet who wasn't rubbed wrong by uh by Casey.
Anyway, here's Carol Costello on CNN this morning, talking about her impressions of the debate last night.
What was the mood like in that room?
Because it appeared to me the moderators didn't ask very challenging questions.
Well, I think, and obviously that that depends on on who you're talking about.
What kind of depends on who you're talking about?
I think he's trying to be nice to Carol.
Uh Monterey didn't ask very challenging questions because Carol doesn't know anything outside the liberal bubble.
So there wasn't anything about racism, gay marriage, transgender issues, lesbian, gay, Bisexual.
There was anything about the legalization of marijuana.
So to her, it was must have been a debate that took place in a foreign language.
What do you mean tax cuts?
What are those?
Tax cuts?
You mean for the rich guys?
Who's for that?
Spending?
Oh no, it get serious.
This kind of stuff is foreign to her, so it was boring.
And here's Obama.
I think Obama, this is at Arlington Cemetery just moments ago.
I think he's taking a shot at Trump here.
What do you think?
Our veterans are already making America great every single day.
So my message today is simple.
If you want to get the job done, hire a vet.
Our veterans are already making America great every day.
I think Obama's bugged by us.
I think a lot of people living rent-free inside his head.
And Trump running around and make America great again.
That's one of the greatest insults you could level at Obama, and I think he's hearing it.
If you want to get the job done, hire a vet.
I guess that's after you hire the illegal, right, Mr. President.
Hire the illegal alien first.
Or just make me put them straight in the safety net.
No, all I mean is look at it this way.
Look at the Duke lacrosse case.
A total made up set of lies that everybody believed.
Well, the campus believed it, the faculty believed it, the police chief believed it, the DA believed it.
We didn't believe it here.
We were immediately suspicious.
Because it was just too pat.
It just fit every leftist racial stereotype.
Look at all of the made-up stories about rape on college campuses.
The most famous one is Rolling Stone, but there are a bunch of them.
Look at all of the made-up, totally made up stories.
That not a shred of it is true on college camps.
So here comes this Mazoo business.
And I don't know.
I I honestly, folks, I am a little embarrassed that I that I did not voice my real suspicions that this wasn't real.
I just didn't have the confidence to do it, I will admit it.
This is a great lesson on how seductive standard everyday media reporting is.
Look, I'm not alone.
Everybody bought into it.
Everybody believed it.
I mean, when nobody on the administration staff is fighting back when a university president quits in two days, you're thinking, well, there must be something here.
And no, it's just it was a total hoax.
I wonder how everybody feels now.
I wonder everybody at the MU from this the president that retired to the chancellor they got rid of.
It was a hoax.
And none of the people that were responsible for bringing these issues to light are in any way suffering.
They come from wealthy families.
They're not in any way being harmed or suffering.
The whole thing's made up.
And I think going forward, you have got to be, we've all got to be totally disbelieving and suspicious of every outrageous story we get that emanates and is sourced to a university in its campus.
Radical leftists getting what they want, lying, hoaxing, being dishonest.
It's not real.
And it's affecting people's attitudes of their country and of their culture and society, and it's got to stop.
There was no pushback.
There was not one IOTA's worth of pushback anywhere on that campus.
There was total caving.
And at some point, somebody, these are children we're talking about.
Somebody's going to have to stand up to them and tell them no.
No.
You're children, and you don't know yet.
And we're not simply going to react and give you what you want and turn Romper Room over to you.
But man, there's so much reluctance to do that.
Don't want to offend people.
Don't want to make the parents mad.
Whatever it is.
Start on the phones in uh in Pullman, Washington.
Jeff, great to have you, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh good morning, Rush.
Uh it's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Yes.
Uh I'm I'm calling in regard to the uh the debates.
And uh I thought it was very interesting.
Uh in the post uh post-debate.
Um Gasparino was making comments.
Um yes, I saw you know I'm glad you made this point.
I saw that last night.
I was going nuts.
Let me guess what you're talking about, the subject of bailing out a f a hypothetical uh Bank of America.
Right.
Bail out, and Jeb and Kasich got into it with Cruz and Trump, primarily crews over what to do about this.
And Gasparino, who was it was uh Charles Gasparino is a business correspondent Fox Business Network, post-debate said he couldn't believe it.
The two candidates on that stage who actually worked in the banking business hadn't the slightest idea what they were talking about, given the circumstance it was set up, the hypothetical problem bank American trouble having to be bailed out.
They didn't know what they were talking about, right?
Yes.
Yeah, that's I thought that was uh an interesting comment, and then I uh also later um they were having one uh one-on-one uh interviews with uh both uh uh Cruz uh and um and Kasich.
And Kasich mentioned how uh he was uh distressed at the idea that um these banks, big banks would not be bailed out because of what it would do to the depositors.
Right.
And then Cruz came along later when he in his uh one-on-one interview, and uh the same thing was brought up with him, and and he uh said in regard to the depositors, well they're insured through the FDIC.
Exactly, exactly.
There's when that happened, you know, I'm s I s there are times I scream at the TV during these things.
And I was screaming at the TV a lot when Kasich was on last night.
Just and when this uh uh what was he doing to make me scream?
Just I I'll get to that in a minute.
But I I want to close the loop on this story.
Because this is a good point Gasparino made.
Both Kasich and Jeb Bush worked at banks following their in in the bridged period between political jobs.
You know, Jeb governor and then sits on boards here and boards there and works at a bank, and Kasich did the same thing and doesn't know the first thing about how banks operate.
So here comes a question.
If Bank of America's teetering on the edge when you bail them out, these are business network guys asking the question.
By the way, the business network guys all think B of A in the scenario they established should be bailed out.
You can't let something that big fail.
You've got to save it.
And Kasich, of course, agreed on the basis, you can't, my God, you can't let a oh my God, it's just crazy.
You people, you don't know what you're talking about.
You don't have any idea what can be you know, I've done it.
I've done it.
I have run for office and I've done with governor, my dad was a mailman, my uncle was a coal miner, I have served, and I know the families, and I know suffering, and you guys, you have your conservative philosophy, and it's great, and it's great, and it's great, but until you get into office, you don't find out it's worthless.
You gotta be a good liberal like I've become in order to govern.
And you guys don't know the first thing about it.
You can't let the families go belly up like this.
You have to ban about, you have to be in the bound.
What if the families, the families, the families, the coal miners, a mailman?
You gotta bail them out.
And I'm shouting at the TV.
They're all insured, Governor.
The FDIC insures what the FDI insures every depositor up to 250,000.
If you don't bail out B of A, the depositors at least get something.
Most people are gonna get everything they've got in the bank up to 250.
But they're not left dry.
Kasich didn't know it.
And even after it was pointed out, he kept he didn't change his position and stayed locked under.
You can't, you can't, you you've got to bail them out.
You can't let them feel the families, oh my god, the families, oh geez, the mentally ill and the sick, the hungry, the thirsty, oh my god, I've worked with them.
I've dealt with them.
Screw this philosophy.
You can do philosophy all day.
And I don't like that line, Welders make more than philosophers, philosophers, I'll take Walders any day in the world.
Mailmen, coal miners, whatever the hell.
But I've done it and you have it.
I don't know What am I doing here?
You people are stupid.
Yet you're ruining our party.
What happened to our party?
What happened to conservatism?
And the people on the panel are saying, No, what happened at you?
But the caller here is exactly right.
Is that what you were looking for?
And Jeb didn't know it either.
And they both worked at banks.
Now, what does it tell you?
No show jobs.
Like Michelle's at the hospital.
She'd have to show up.
Get this gig for 300 grand while, you know, Obama's sucking down what, 12,000 as a state senator.
So they have to go there and make some money, and she gets a no-show job based on the power and influence of her husband.
She'd have to show up maybe once or twice a month.
Well, the elites take care of each other.
No show job.
You've heard of no-show jobs.
I mean, many.
Well, you ever seen a union job?
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
I like my kneecaps.
All right, now here's a here's another thing about Jeb.
They have to know at the Jeb campaign why Trump is leading.
And in the national polls, Trump still is leading.
They have to know it's immigration.
They have to know that they, the Bush campaign and the candidate himself, Jeb, they have to know that they're on the wrong side of that issue when it comes to Republican primary voters.
They have to know that, do they not?
Now I know that I know that Jeb and his team have said that their goal was to win the nomination without the base.
To win the nomination and not win the primaries or some such thing.
And then the reason and the way you do that's with money.
You just get all the money from all the donors, you deny money to everybody else, and you just outlast them.
And you get all the conservatives running against each other, divvy up the support to each and the money to each, and you get rid of them that way.
But by this time, Jeb's sitting there at three, four points, and he's not moving.
And anybody else at three, four points this long, it'd be gone.
But they're still hanging in there because they're in a state of denial.
I still think of the Bush campaign, they they don't think Trump's real.
I don't think they think the real racism, but I don't think they believe any of this is really meaningful.
This is all something weird and odd.
It isn't gonna be Carson, it ain't gonna be Trump.
I think that's what they're telling themselves.
In the bowels of the Bush campaign.
It's not gonna be those two guys.
This is unreal.
This is sick.
These guys, not any professional politicians and establishment types, donors don't like them.
This isn't gonna work.
So they think they're gonna bomb out, go away, something's gonna happen.
Even so, why in the world would you knowing full well that you're sitting where you're sitting in large part because your immigration position, it's a Republican primary.
Why?
Why would you say something like Jeb said?
They're having high fives in the Clinton campaign right now when they hear this.
What were they hearing?
The Republicans were having a discussion about stopping illegal immigration.
The Republicans were having a debate about the economics of illegal immigration.
Not the civil rights aspect of it, and not the compassion for the poor, unless you want to talk about compassion for the American worker who gets screwed because of all these newly arriving unskilled, low-educated workers that'll work for dirt sheep.
In that sense, you could say it's a compassion issue, but for the American worker, but Cruz had made it clear here that this is not a civil rights issue, and people are not anti-immigrant.
It's an economics issue, and it's a legal issue.
We're a nation of laws.
We've got immigration laws and every and Jeb's openly talking about how, over on the Democrat side, when the Republicans talk about enforcing the law and protecting American jobs and raising American wages, the Democrats and Hillary are applauding.
Somehow the Republicans were killing themselves.
The Republicans in Jeb's were hurting themselves, standing up for the American workers, standing up for the rule of law.
I I just does does Jeb really think these laws just should be ignored?
Does Jeb think we gotta get rid of these laws?
Does he think enforcing them is a terrible thing?
You know, that's what the liberals think.
Like these clowns at the University of Missouri, what they really don't want is laws enforced, laws that they don't like equal prison or injustice or lack of justice, lack of freedom, or what have you.
And then Kasich got in on it at the same time.
Kasich starts talking about.
Think about the families.
Think about the family.
Come on, folks.
Come on.
Who are we?
Come on.
Think about the family.
We're not gonna send eleven, twelve million people home.
We're not gonna bust them those to come on.
This isn't real.
What am I doing here?
You people are all idiots.
I'm the only guy that's getting a conservative as a candidate and liberal as a governor.
I'm the only guy here that has a heart.
I'm the only guy here that has feelings.
I'm the only guy here who knows the pain and suffering of mailmen and coal miners.
My God, what am I doing here?
You people don't know a thing.
Oh, this is embarrassing.
What happened to our party?
What happened to our movement?
Oh my god, oh my god.
He and Jeb.
Is that what you're talking about?
He and Jeb.
I just don't get it.
I we no, I don't.
I mean, I I do.
I understand what they're trying to they're running against the will of the people, trying to establish themselves with much bigger hearts and uh much more competitive.
They're running as Democrats.
They're the Jeb Jeb and Kasick may as well have been espousing the Democrat Party position last night during a Republican debate, and they're wondering why things aren't working out.
Here's uh here's uh Tom in Dallas.
Tom, I'm glad you waited.
That's uh your turn next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Uh thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I just wanted to make a quick comment about Bobby Gendal's performance.
Uh I I thought, number one, all four candidates in the first debate were terrific.
They were very articulate.
Um they had a lot of time to answer questions and and uh, you know, really got their points across.
Um I thought that Bobby Gendal's uh responses while kind of funny, and the juice box comment, by the way, um that refers to seven, eight nine-year-old kids who don't care whether or not they win a game at the end of the day.
They're just waiting for the juice box and their participation trophy.
Um, but um I thought it came across uh to the audience uh uh a bit harsh and a bit snarky in comparison to Huckabee and uh Christie, who really focused on Hillary Clinton more.
Um and while you know Gendal is absolutely right, we have to elect a conservative.
Um it did come across as um a little desperate, I think.
Desperate or mean?
Uh I think more desperate.
He seemed a little shrill.
He wanted to make his point, and he did multiple times, uh, comparing his conservative record against Huckabee and um especially Christie, uh, and I think he could have done it in a more initiating matter.
You think he may be a little frustrated because in his mind he is looking at at Huckabee and Christie, and he doesn't think they're real conservatives, and he thinks he is.
And that's absolutely right.
I think he's a representation and it came across that way.
He's held bent on having as many people as possible know.
I think I think Bobby Gendal is one of these guys, and there are many of them who really resent these moderate quasi republicans getting away with calling themselves conservative when they're not, and he's calling them on it.
Now the juice the juice box reference uh and the participation um well, let me ask you this.
Did you think Trump was uh like Jing uh Jindal when when he when he made reference to Carly Fiorina's continual interruptions?
Uh no, I think that Trump picks his moments and uh you know is good at getting a great audience reaction.
I don't think that anything he said came across as, you know, snarky or mean spirited.
It was more in the fun of keeping the discussion going.
Well, at one point he got frustrated with Kasich.
He said, What am I doing over?
What's this guy doing up here?
I'm not we're we're we're wasting our time with this guy up here.
Something like that about Kasich, I forget specifically.
Um what it was.
Anyway, Tom, I appreciate the call.
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