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Jan. 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to the Rush Limbo program.
And I I have to tell you, you are among, if not the most intelligent consumers of media in the country today.
You have to be, as I'm your host.
And as I look at the media landscape which followed this program yesterday.
Man is it stunning.
Anyway, great to have you here.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program's 800-282-2882 and the email address, Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
Let me review here for just a second.
I'm in a quandary here.
I mean, I've got the audio sound right roster today, and I am it.
And as you know, that makes me profoundly uncomfortable.
I am not one of these people who wants to make everything about me.
I really am not, and you people know that.
But I spent, for those of you who were here, yes, this is a remind you, for those of you who weren't, I spent arguably yesterday's entire program pouring out my soul to you people, and explaining to you how I arrive at the places I get to.
And how sometimes it's very challenging because over the years I've gotten to know all of the people that are the newsmakers in the recent space of news stories related to the Republican presidential campaign.
Some of them I counted among my best friends, and I've known them for over 30 years, 25, 30 years, and yet here I am thrust into a position, not complaining about it, where I have to be able to put all that aside and get right down to what I think about it, whatever it is from issue to issue, because it's all about you.
Meaning being truthful to what your expectations of this uh program are and of me.
And so I said particularly the first hour yesterday, I I I spent you know what?
Actually, the first 90 minutes, the first hour and a half of this program, I spent a lot of time and concentrated, focused on trying just to explain all of the elements, did not come down on one side or the other.
I just tried to analyze and explain it, and then watch what happens with that in the rest of the media is stunning.
The lack of depth, and I I mean this, the lack of ability to to understand nuance, and yesterday wasn't that nuanced, it was pretty cut and dried.
You didn't have to read between the lines of what I was saying.
That's why I went to such lengths to be as perfectly clear as I could.
And yet the rest of the drive by media, which follows the program, can't get past the horse race.
You know, I yesterday's program was a it was a it was uh it held particularly deep meaning for me.
And last night, throughout the night, watching cable news or hearing about it, I actually didn't watch it.
It's amazing how the drive-by media just reduces everything to the horse race.
And the conclusion, what they apparently picked up from our three-hour program yesterday was that I was siding with Donald Trump over Fox News, over the Republican candidates.
That's how they analyzed it.
I didn't side with anybody.
I haven't sided with anybody.
During primaries, I never do side with anybody.
There's nothing unusual about what's going on here.
What I endeavor to do is analyze and explain it.
And the whole point of yesterday's program was to try to explain to people how in the world somebody like Trump busting convention, doing everything everybody says you're not supposed to do.
How can he be, according to the polls, running away with this?
How can a guy who's not gonna show up on TV, dominate TV.
How can a guy who announce he's not going to participate own it?
I endeavored to explain this yesterday.
And I made it very clear that what Trump is doing is breaking every political formula that exists.
He's busting all the convention.
And nobody can figure it out.
Everybody follows the formula.
Everybody plays the game.
The rules of the game have been set by tradition and experience.
And it's expected that you are to follow those rules.
The elites in any organization are exclusionary, and their job is to keep newbies out, particularly newbies that are violating the rules.
They're not only not to get in the club, they are not to win if they sneak into the club.
All of that's being violated.
I attempted to explain it, and I thought I did rather well, but it was reduced to limbaugh.
Here taking sides with Trump.
CNN, uh other cable networks and so forth.
So now I'm in a quandary here.
I've got all these audio sound bites.
And they all talk about me and what I said.
They play they play the clips of what I said and still don't get it.
I guess it could be fun reviewing that.
And but it's just it makes me uncomfortable being the being the focus of everything here.
But really the takeaway here is, and I think all of you in this audience get it.
You understand the mainstream media.
They want you to believe that they are the smartest, the brightest, the most experienced day, greatest analysts.
Uh only they have the experience, the knowledge, the contacts to be able to analyze, dig deep, and explain things to you that you otherwise wouldn't know.
And that is a joke.
Because they can't get past the horse race aspect of everything, mixed in with their own personal biases.
Like I kind of jumped on Fox a little bit yesterday, and I don't consider it jumping on Fox.
I just I expressed I was surprised.
Okay, so here's a candidate running for President Trump.
He says, you know what, I'm not gonna do your debate.
Okay, fine.
You're gonna do our debate, fine.
We won't miss you.
Go ahead and do what you want to do.
Go to Canada, have a debate with Cruz, whatever you said you're gonna do, but we are gonna do the debate, and here's the other rest of the news, and let it be done with, instead of turning the whole rest of the night over to how you've been jilted.
Well, CNN came along last night and violated every other rule.
They turned over their whole night to Fox News.
I have never, I have never why in the world would you spend four hours talking about your competitor?
Even if you think you're criticizing, even if you think you're bringing people on who you think are criticizing them, you don't talk of you, don't you not help them out that way.
But they are so eager.
You know, Fox is the king of the hill.
Fox is just three, four, five times bigger than their nearest competitor.
And so they'll take any opportunity they think they've got to whittle Fox down to size using other people to do it because they haven't figured out how to do it on their own with their own programming.
So I guess CNN figures that their audience wants to tune in and watch Fox get beat up.
What kind of audience do you have if that and you're a cable news network and you think your audience wants to hear Fox News get beat up?
This stuff has gotten so inside baseball, it's become so personal that there's degrees of malpractice going on out there regarding journalism.
Nothing new, I understand.
Uh I'm just further analyzing this for you as I as I see it.
What do you think, Snerdley?
Should I play some of these sound bites?
Yeah, see, you never say no to that.
You know, you're just you're just all in there because you think this is all let's just let's start and give some examples.
What do we have first here?
Um CBS Evening News.
Major Garrett, formerly of Fox News, CBS evening news last night.
Uh here is what is this?
It's uh It's a portion of his uh report, and this one, they're trying to figure out what side I'm on.
See, I have to be on a side.
I have to have chosen a side here.
I mean, that's just the way it works.
Because Russia's talk radio, talk radio, not deep.
Talk radio is just a bunch of idiots.
So Rush has to have taken a side.
What side did Rush take?
Anyway, here's Major Garrett in the South that started.
Trump did get support from influential conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.
I got news for you.
He is controlling the media, and it's his objective.
He is controlling the media.
He controls the media when he's not on it.
He controls the media when he is on it.
He controls the media when he's asleep.
By Fox's count, Trump has appeared on the network 132 times during the campaign, far more than any of his Republican rivals.
Trump is now challenging the network's well-defined role in the Republican nomination conversation.
Right.
So Trump got support from me.
I wasn't supporting Trump.
I wasn't criticizing Trump.
I was simply explaining how all this, in my opinion, is happening.
There are a lot of people, starting with the Republican establishment, who can't figure this out.
And a lot of other people as well.
And they're out there saying, you can't control him.
You can't tell the media what to do.
Well, he is.
My only point was to illustrate he is controlling the media no matter where he goes, where he doesn't go, no matter whether he's awake or asleep.
Somehow that ends up and Rush Limbaugh took Donald Trump's side today on talk radio.
Here's NBC the Today Show today, correspondent Peter Alexander, and uh his report on all this.
Rushing to Trump's defense, Rush Limbaugh.
Donald Trump knows that by not showing up, he's owning the entire event.
Our new NBC News Wall Street Journal, Maris Pull out just this morning shows that Trump has now catapulted back in the first place ahead of Ted Cruz here in Iowa by seven points.
His lead in New Hampshire is even wider, closer to 20 points.
And remember that no non-incumbent Republican candidate has ever won both Iowa and New York.
How is it all right?
How is it that stating the obvious has become partisan?
All that was was a statement of what's obvious.
Trump is controlling the media.
By not showing up, he's owning the entire event.
That was reported as me rushing to Trump's defense.
Rum, Trump's defense.
I'm simply repeating the obvious.
And in addition to that, I was reacting to what some other people were out there saying he can't control the media.
Who does he think he is?
And hey, wake up, gang.
He is controlling the media.
It's all it was.
That's not all it was, Rush.
You're taking Trump's side.
Everybody can hear it.
No, only a small mind who can't get past horse race thinking would even have that that occur to them.
Now, here's here John Heileman.
He and he and Mark Mark Halpern, another couple here that are credited with some of the greatest brains in American political reporting.
These are the guys that write books during the campaign.
They learn all kinds of stuff that might affect people's votes, but they don't release any of it until after the election, so that they can personally profit from it by selling their book.
Fine.
That's how they do it.
They are considered to be some of the sharpest minds in American political analysis.
So we start with Heileman, who has to suggest here that what they're doing is investigating what was said from the far right precincts of talk radio land.
Speaking from the far right precincts of talk radio land, Russia Limbaugh said, quote, in this business, one of the games is that when the media calls, you answer, and when the media wants you, you go.
That's the game.
Trump is so far outside this game.
He's so far outside the rules.
He's never been a player in this game.
He's always been an outsider.
And I further said that it's so far outside the game that people inside the game haven't the slightest idea what he's doing.
They don't know how he's doing it, and it's got them scared to death.
Because it's so outside the formula.
They don't know how To deal with it.
They've toyed with changing debate rules.
They've toyed with changing the convention rules.
They've toyed with uh trying to take Trump out during debates, or they don't know how to deal with it because he's so outside the game, the way this is always done.
You ever worked at a place, you're new on the job, and somebody tells you to do something, it seems crazy.
What do you well that's the way we've always done it?
Well, that's American political party structure.
That's the way we've always done it.
And that's the way they're always gonna do it.
Because the power people, the elites, determine the way it's always been done, the way it's going to continue to be done.
Somebody comes along and challenges that.
Uh uh uh uh not welcome, we're not even gonna like you.
And we're not even gonna let you in the club.
The guy storms in the club, then wins everything, makes it look like the guys running the club don't have the slightest idea what idea what they're doing.
It's Panic City.
Not one word of that is in support of Trump.
I'm just telling you what's going on.
These guys, Halperin and Heileman, doing their own version of analysis.
Here's what Halpern says following Heileman's venture into the far right precincts of talk radio land.
My initial impulse was this was good for him, a moment of strength.
He doesn't need the debate.
That means a lot of the debate will be about beating up Ted Cruz, and Trump does best, like most candidates when he's acting from his heart and his gut.
And he was insulted by Fox News and doesn't want to be part of their debate.
Since then, I've heard people, I was talking to one of the smartest people I know covers politics who said this could be a big mistake.
I'm not convinced that this is a mistake.
Iowans, I think, might, under other circumstances, mind.
Did you hear that?
Mark Halpern came out supporting Trump.
Did you hear that?
Let it ring across the country.
Mark Halperin just sided with Donald Trump.
An independent journalist who makes up his mind never doesn't announce or he's just endorsed Trump.
See?
That's how it works.
Now back to John Heilman following that latest comment.
I think by and large, the the same thing that you think, which is that one day later, what has not happened is the world has not come crashing down in his head.
He'd been praised for being strong, and he is looking like Limbaugh said.
I hate to find myself agreeing with Rush, but he looks like he's bigger than Fox News.
They just can't stand it.
They just the arrogance.
Only they, see, these guys have their own club, and I'm not welcome.
Only they are allowed to do analysis.
Only they are allowed to pontificate.
Only they are allowed to be taken serious.
Here I come from the far-right precincts of talk radio.
We can't have that.
This guy Limboy is an intruder.
He's not paid his dues.
He didn't go to college, he hadn't written any stories, he hasn't worked any think tanks, he's never worked for a ham sandwich.
What is this guy comes in, storms the country, takes over talk radio, but he thinks he's an expert?
Screw that.
We're not allowing that.
That's how I know how this stuff works, folks.
Anyway, brief timeout.
Don't go away, be like that.
Ha!
How are you?
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you, Rush Limboy here in the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Anyway, there are I don't know how many more sound bites like that from CNN and any number of places.
And I'm folks, it makes me uncomfortable to sit here and play these sound bites, these people talking about what I said when I've already said it and you heard it yesterday, and to sit here and have to come and correct them again when they're never gonna get it right.
It just all seems like a waste of time to me.
And it makes me nervous.
Yes, I now see Snerdley's lobbying me.
You gotta keep going because there's a lot of new people tuning in.
They hear your name talked about on CNN, they wonder what's going on, they and then you you've got to take advantage of.
I understand that, but it is a quandary.
I'm telling maybe a dilemma.
Um, but it is a sit here and we know they get things wrong.
What's what's what's obvious is they're incapable of getting it right is the thing.
It's a waste of time.
Because they have their narrow vision in which they look at every political event.
And we're talking about these people, it's all about can they save Hillary Clinton?
Whatever is happening on the Republican side, uh, and wherever there are advocates for the Republican side, meaning anybody supports Trump, anybody supports Cruz, uh, the so-called conservative media, these People out there in the so-called drive-by's or mainstream media are focused on one thing, and that is ultimately getting Hillary Clinton elected.
And so when they endeavor to discuss people who are conservatives in politics, conservatives in media, there's never an effort to get it right.
There's always an air of condescension and arrogance that is more and more obvious each and every day.
And they're very worried right now because Hillary seems to be falling apart.
Bernie Sanders is just skyrocketing now.
And now Susan Sarrandon has come out for Bernie.
They can't find any women in Hollywood for Hillary.
Then the FBI thing is lurking out there, and there are a lot of people getting really, really nervous, particularly in the mainstream media and Democrat Party side as well, because nothing's going the way it was supposed to go there.
Thank you.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
L Rushbow behind the golden EIB microphone, 800 282-2882.
All right, I pulled the staff.
The staff says, we love it when the sound bites are about you.
Okay, so it's an urgent say, You bought it, you got it, you got it, you got it.
There's all kinds of new people tuning in.
You don't realize what's happening out there, Rush.
I mean, you are the tall focus.
You got it, you gotta, you gotta.
So we left off with John Heilman after he had explained how uncomfortable it was to delve into the far right precincts of talk radio, and then ended up agreeing with what he heard me say, even though it pained him to realize that was happening.
We now go to CNN and Aaron Burnett out front.
Here is a portion of a report from Jim Acosta.
And it's along the same lines as everything you've heard up to now.
What's worth pointing out Donald Trump is finding an ally in Rush Limbaugh, who said on his radio show today that Fox News is acting like it's been jilted at the altar.
And once again, Trump has found a new way to dominate the coverage in this race for the GOP nomination.
And talking to people in this conservative crowd, Aaron, it is clear many here will be watching Trump tomorrow night, not Fox News.
Uh look, don't folks, I'm not hypersensitive about this being accused of finding what what and I should I should know this well enough now not to be disappointed by it.
As I say, I I really dug deep yesterday in a serious effort to analyze and explain this, because as I said, everybody about whom I was going to speak yesterday is a friend to one degree or another.
And it's very, very hard to speak about people who are friends.
Uh it's easier when you don't know the people you're talking about.
But I can't, if I'm to meet the expectations you have here every day, I can't let all of that cloud or dilute what I think or say.
So everything yesterday occurred under those auspices, if you will.
And to hear it reduced.
This is, folks, you know, I told yesterday why I don't like doing TV.
This is one of the reasons why.
I spent now I know that these clowns are not going to listen for an hour or even 30 minutes, much less an hour and a half.
I know they're not going to listen, period.
I know that some producer is going to find some 10-second clip and play it for them.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Limbotec and Trump said that's then going to form and shape the entire evening's coverage.
I uh I understand that.
But I want to point this out because these are the people who claim to be in-depth.
Analyzers, analysts, in-depth uh understanding the stuff that you're not capable of knowing because you're not close enough.
And it's clear that they're not able to get beyond their narrow blinders here the story is written before they even do it.
They come up with what they want the story to be.
They find the elements that they want to include in it to prove their contention.
they have to cherry pick, they do.
All of this is known.
None of it's a surprise, but in itself, this is another bit of analysis and exposition about how these people do it.
This is a cost up next little Brian Selter.
Also at CNN, he's their media expert.
Brian Stelter is the media expert that tells everybody else how to understand what the media is doing.
Not just CNN's media, but every media.
So Aaron Burnett uh and Brian Stelter go back and forth about what it all meant yesterday.
People are now choosing sides with influential conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh siding with Trump.
Saying Fox is acting jilted.
Donald Trump knows that by not showing up, he's owning the entire event.
Some guy not even present will end up owning the entire event.
So who needs who more?
Fox or Trump?
Thursday's ratings might start to answer that key question.
And people are now choosing sides, influential conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh siding with Trump, saying Fox is out acting jilted.
Let me explain that again.
For the newbies that Mr. Snerdley has referred to.
And there are.
We are getting tuned in factor in this program like you can't believe.
We're growing here geometric proportions.
And my point about being jilted was here's Fox is going to televise a debate.
And it's uh gonna be tonight.
And one of the participants, one of the candidates, says, you know what, I'm not gonna debate.
I'm not showing up.
I don't like one of your moderators.
Your moderator isn't fair to me.
Uh whatever reason he gives, he's not showing up.
And Fox acted like it was the end of the world.
And they spent a lot of time that night analyzing what it all meant for them and why it was happening and so forth.
And my only point was that.
Well, I don't know.
This is tough, folks.
It just it's really tough.
I just I would I would, it's easy for me to say I'm not there.
I don't there's stuff going on, uh, other places of business that I'm not privy to and don't know, obviously.
But if I let me put if if if Donald Trump were scheduled to be here as a guest, which we don't do, but if Trump are going to be here as a guest and called and canceled, I wouldn't devote the following three hours to gee, I wish he was here.
Why did he cancel?
What does it mean for me and for this program?
I just go and do something else.
Trump cancels that he's gonna be here, but he's not.
Bam, done it.
Move on.
Um but to devote all this time and and and I understand there's a is a new media today, and that is make it about you rather than what you're covering in the in the news.
And it's uh that just makes me nervous, as all of this is making me nervous.
So that's that's little Brian.
There's more for little Brian.
Let me get to the next page.
They happen to stick together.
Aaron Burnt herself.
Uh this is this is uh you know, just play it.
I don't even I don't even know what it is before I air it.
So here's Rush Limbaugh had this to say about Trump's decision today.
I got news for you.
He is controlling the media, and it's his objective.
He is controlling the media.
He controls the media when he's not on it.
He controls the media when he is on it.
He controls the media when he's asleep.
That's about the fourth time I've heard that clip.
Obviously, this bugs them.
Okay, so in all these, that's the fourth time they have played that clip about how Trump owns the media.
That scares all of them in the media, by the way, folks.
That's not supposed to happen.
Nobody they cover except the Kennedys is supposed to be bigger than the media.
They allowed the Kennedys to be bigger than the media, and some communists who uh they loved Gorbachev.
Gorbachev could do no wrong, for example, but somebody like Trump is not supposed to control or own the media.
Probably not happy that I was pointing it out either.
Here's David Rodham Gurgen.
David Rodham Gurgen, also on CNN, same show, Aaron Burnett.
This is the guy you you'd probably say does define whatever Conventional wisdom in Washington is.
If you want to know what the elites, the power brokers, the majority of the powerful in Washington think at a given moment, go ask David Gurgen what's on his mind, and you'll find out.
I think that what Americans are looking for now, who are scared and anxious about the future is somebody who is strong and decisive.
And somebody who's willing to stand up to vested interest in this country and say, sometimes you get it wrong.
And you know, if you want to insult me, I'm not going to walk into some setup on your debate.
This statement that they issued, the extraordinary statement they issued, signaled that he was going to be walking, very likely walking into a setup.
And why should he go timidly into that?
Why shouldn't he say, hey, wait a minute.
If you go over the line, I'm not playing.
Well, David Rodham Gurgen is using my exact line of thinking.
I chose different words.
I said in Trump's mind, why should he give them the gun and the bullet and then go stand still as a target?
He's got experience.
He's got intelligence.
He knows what happened the last time.
Why put himself in front of it again?
That's all I was suggesting was the explanation for this.
The explanation for this.
It's not that he's afraid of Megan Kelly.
It's not that he's afraid of anybody.
It's that why should you put yourself in a circumstance where previously somebody tried to harm you?
Why do it again?
Well, the rules say that you have to show up.
You have to be bigger than the media.
You have to take those assaults in the media.
That's the game.
The media, if you're going to run for president, you have to be able to take questions.
No matter what the question is, you are to respect it and you are to answer it.
Because if you can't deal with the media, how can we trust you to deal with X like Putin or the Ayatollah or Mao Tse Tong or the Castros or whoever you fill in the blank with?
That's always been the way they do this.
Well, you're afraid of the media?
You can't handle a question for Megan Kelly, can't handle the question, Sam Donaldson?
Well, how are you gonna deal with Mikhail Gormichev?
That's a whole I've never thought that was a sensible way of looking at things.
The sensible way of looking at it is why, whether you're running for president, or whether you're a CEO, or whether you're just any average, ordinary run-of-the-mill newsmaker from day to day, why in the world, what is the sense in openly making yourself available to be ridiculed impugned.
If they're going to do it anyway, and you show up in a format where you are by definition of the rules limited in how you can respond to it, why go there and be made to stand like a sitting duck?
And because the rules you have to play nice and be polite, and you can't, they have all the cards, media holds all the cards, they can say, do whatever they want, ask you any question, and the rules say you're supposed to sit there and take it.
And all I'm pointing out is that Donald Trump is saying, no, I am not going to do that.
That's not smart.
Read my book, The Art of the Deal.
This is not how you get what you want.
Can I tell you what we're watching here?
If you really want to get down to brass tax, if you want to know what's going on between Trump and Fox News and Trump and the rest of the media, if you want to know, if you really want to understand this, you are watching a Trump negotiation that you never normally would see.
Most negotiations take place behind closed doors, whatever they are.
Negotiating a compensation package, negotiating a deal between countries, a deal between one business and another, whatever it might be.
They never do those in public.
Nobody sees those talks.
And when they're over with, there's a mutual announcement.
Happy today at the XYZ widget company and the ABC News Media Company have reached agreement on a new accord to do blah, blah, blah it is, and everybody goes as a cocktail at the end of the day.
But you never see how they got there.
What you're seeing here, this is Trump.
This is how he negotiates.
It's all there, book the art of the deal, when to walk away, when to have the courage to walk away, when to say no, when to mean it.
You're watching a negotiation.
He doesn't like, he doesn't think the rules, the setup is advantageous based on previous experience, so he's not going to do it again.
It's so far outside the rules that it's considered rude.
It's considered to be obstinate, it's considered to be arrogant.
Who is this upstart?
Who is it that thinks he's bigger than the rules?
This stuff all reminds me of Steve Jobs in a way.
Steve Jobs used to, you know, he had one of his big advertising slogans uh early on in the days of Apple was think different.
And Jobs would constantly tell people.
Why do you assume everybody's smarter than you are?
Just because they've got the job and you don't.
Just because they're in a position and you're not.
Why do you accept that?
You accept that because of the rules.
You accept that because that's just the way things always are.
Somebody earns more than you, they've got to be smarter.
Somebody has a job more powerful than yours, they've got to be smarter.
They've got to be better.
Don't think that way.
Don't naturally subordinate yourself to everybody.
Just because you're not in the club that's making the rules does not mean they know more than you do about how to be best for yourself.
And Jobs' point was so few people ever actually stand up for themselves.
It's considered too risky.
It's safer to conform.
It's safer to go by the rules.
It's just safer to let everything fall out as it's supposed to, and try to make your mark within those confines.
But when you do it that way, you're still waiting on somebody above you to anoint you and grant you the permission to climb the next rung on the ladder rather than just doing it on your own and letting the chips fall.
That's the way corporate structure is.
I I worked for a corporation for five years and found out after year three, I'm not made for that.
Because I'm not a conformist.
And I don't have 40 years to wait to climb the ladder to do what the rules of that game say you have to do to become a VP.
And that's all Trump's doing here.
He's taking the way he lives his life and always has, and this does not equal support for Trump.
I'm explaining it.
The way he lives his life, the way he always has, and he's decided he wants to get into politics, and he's going to continue to run by his rules.
He's not going to sit there and willingly let people take shots at him just because that's what you always have to do if you want to be elected president.
You've got to go through the media gauntlet.
No, he doesn't, he's saying.
Anyway, I can take a break.
I'm way long here.
Next segment's going to be short.
I apologize in advance.
Let's get started on the phones, uh, Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back.
I do that.
Just to be fair.
It's a fair thing to do.
And this is uh Scott in Lyons, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Uh, hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's uh it's an honor to talk to you today.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Thank you.
And uh my question is just that uh in my mind I'm comparing the um uh the CNN the C N B C debate after which the uh the RNC and the entire field decided to cut ties, they call it cutting ties, or or backing out of any of the NBC debates because they they feel that the questions asked were they were treated unfairly, the previous debate with uh CNBC.
And uh I just I'm wondering in my mind what what's the difference between Trump feeling that he was treated unfairly and the entire field and the RNC feeling that they were treated unfairly.
Yeah, you know, it's an interesting point.
The question came up, question came up yesterday, and you're right.
Let's just review here, let's for for the sake of uh memory refreshment.
The C NBC debate that he's talking about is the one where about 30 minutes into it, Ted Cruz had had enough.
Some inane question about whether somebody wears diapers or not.
Whatever it was, it was that inane, and Ted Christino, that's it.
You know what?
We have been here half hour, and you have and he recited every meaningless, worthless, silly, insulting question everybody had asked.
And the place erupted in applause.
And the moderators at CNBC loved it.
They were big smiles on their face because they had succeeded in making themselves the story.
Which is what modern day media wants to do.
They want to be the story, and they want to be the arbiters.
They want to determine who wins, and they want to pick our candidate, okay?
So when it was over, it was so bad that the RNC said, Oh, you know what?
We're through with NBC.
We've got a debate coming on NBC, but we're not gonna do it because you guys are so bad in the way you ask questions.
Right on, man, way to stand up for yourselves, everybody said, Way to be, way to be tough.
Trump comes along and backs out.
And it's not quite it on time here.
Hang in here, folks.
I'll I'll finish this and we Trump is just actually following the advice I and many of you have given Republicans for years when it comes to the mainstream drive by media, anyway.
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