Jan. 29, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Greetings, my good friends. | |
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| We're setting subscription records out there. | |
| I just heard from Coco this morning. | |
| And we're ecstatic to hear that. | |
| I'll explain it in detail. | |
| Let's keep going here, folks. | |
| Friday it is. | |
| Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida. | |
| It's open line Friday. | |
| Yes, sir, we destined to be a barn burner today. | |
| Open line Friday. | |
| This is where callers, if you're new to the program, on Friday, we let callers go wherever they want to go. | |
| In terms of what they talk about. | |
| We we sort of control it. | |
| I'm a benevolent dictator kind of guy. | |
| It's my show. | |
| So we kind of control the things people talk about just to keep everything focused so it'll get boredom seeping in out there. | |
| But on Friday, I broom all that and end up taking one of the greatest career risks ever taken by modern American major media figure. | |
| And that is turning the content portion of the program to amateurs. | |
| As opposed to me, highly trained broadcast specialist. | |
| Great to have you here. | |
| Telephone number if you want to be on the program's 800-282-2882 and the email address, Ilrushbow at EIBNet.com. | |
| I was almost right. | |
| I was almost my gut was telling me yesterday that this thing was not over when the show ended yesterday, that the uh possibility of Trump showing up at the debate was not over. | |
| We have uh we've learned that the moderators, the moderating crew, uh Brett Bear, Chris Wallace, Megan Kelly, even as late as 845 thought Trump might bop over. | |
| There were negotiations going on all during the day. | |
| Trump was never serious about it, and I figured it out when I learned that Trump made a demand of Fox News five million dollar donation to his his veterans group. | |
| I mean, there was no way Fox can do that. | |
| You throw that demand out as a way of shutting the thing down. | |
| So Trump wasn't there. | |
| He was down the road a couple of miles doing his veterans event, an entirely different Trump event. | |
| It was unlike any Trump event that has taken place. | |
| Back in the debate center, there was Ted Cruz in the center of the space. | |
| He had the center podium, which meant that he was going to be the focus of attention. | |
| He became the uh front runner by default when compared to the other people in the room and where they stand, Trump the front runner, depending on polls, but he wasn't there. | |
| That automatically made Cruz the target. | |
| Thank Cruz is going to be the target anyway. | |
| Um simply because the establishment made up of a lot of people do not want Cruz or Trump to get the nomination. | |
| So with Cruz in there, without Trump to take any incoming, all the incoming could be focused on Cruz, and they tried quite a bit. | |
| Um if you didn't know any better, you might think when this is all over. | |
| Let me just jump forward to the end of this and ask you all a question. | |
| First, did you did you guys in there watch this whole thing? | |
| Okay, but now let me ask you a question. | |
| Because I had I my setup, I was watching both. | |
| I had I had the debate on on the on the main TV in my library, and I had my computer set up, my laptop in front of me on the desk to be able to make instantaneous notes and observations, should it have been necessary. | |
| And to the left of that, I had my iPad Pro. | |
| And on the iPad Pro, I had YouTube streaming the Trump event. | |
| And I was going back and forth. | |
| I can't keep the audio of both up at the same time because I would be able to hear nothing. | |
| So I had to go back and forth. | |
| The Trump event was not close captured, at least I couldn't find a way to turn it on. | |
| But the debate was, so I relied on close captioning and listened to the Trump event until a couple things happened there. | |
| I bumped out of it, kept the video on. | |
| You would have to ask me about battery life, wouldn't you? | |
| You just okay, I'll just tell you, my iPad Pro, which with my normal usage, five days between charges. | |
| I lost 60% of the charge just in the period of time Trump was on YouTube. | |
| That's a massive battery in that thing. | |
| I mean, every device I've got is churning battery. | |
| Anyway, I don't I really don't want to get distracted by that, because I literally do get ticked off. | |
| I can't, I just I just do. | |
| Not because of that, it's because what efforts are not efforts, whatever to deal with it. | |
| But anyway, so I'm watching and going back and forth. | |
| And then I learned that CNN is not going wall to wall with the Trump event. | |
| They're bumping in and out of it. | |
| C-SPAN did. | |
| So I knew immediately that there could never be a ratings comparison, which people were considering and looking forward to. | |
| But there couldn't be because CNN didn't stick with it. | |
| Plus they had their commentators chatting over it while it was happening. | |
| So it was not wall-to-wall, the Trump event on CNN. | |
| MSNBC did some of it. | |
| It was over on C-SPAN. | |
| So ends up the Fox debate drew 13 million, which is a steady audience, a fair audience, but it's nowhere near what could have been. | |
| And what could have been, that's what was telling me my gut that Trump was going to show. | |
| The opportunity on both sides, Fox and Trump, to hit 35, 40 million people, is what I thought both of them might at the end of the day figure out. | |
| From that standpoint point alone, it would make sense to do. | |
| So anyway, back back to my question. | |
| You all watched the debate. | |
| And you had your opinions, I'm sure, as the debate went on as to who was doing better than you expected, worse than you expected. | |
| It was a good night, bad night. | |
| And then immediately after it was over, Fox goes to the Frank Lunz Focus Group. | |
| And the Frank Lunz Focus Group makes it clear that among that group of people, there was only one winner last night, and it wasn't even close. | |
| And it was Marco Rubio. | |
| And to put an exclamation point on that, the way Lunch did it, he sets it up by asking his focus group. | |
| So how many of you arrived here not intending to support Rubio? | |
| And a couple of hands went up. | |
| Okay, now the debate is over, Lunz asked his group. | |
| How many of you are going to support Rubio now? | |
| Practically every hand went up. | |
| I said, What uh okay. | |
| I'm just folks sharing observations with you. | |
| Let me do an ABC. | |
| Mr. Snerdley, do you think do you think Rubio won the debate? | |
| You did, okay. | |
| Don, did you think Rubio won the debate? | |
| That's two nose. | |
| Brian, do you know who Rubio is? | |
| Brian didn't watch. | |
| Okay, so I was just kidding. | |
| He knows he knows who Rubio is. | |
| I'm going to go through it here in a minute, person by person. | |
| It's a it was a totally different dynamic without Trump there. | |
| I mean, it it changed the atmosphere of the thing. | |
| I think it changed the behavior of all the uh uh participants. | |
| Um it was it was that in fact there was there was one point, and I mentioned the Trump event down the road was a totally different Trump event. | |
| And I don't know if the people showed up for that event, ended up being disappointed or not, but Trump was barely in it. | |
| He turned the stage over to uh Ruby, not Ruby, to uh Huckabee and Rick Santorum at one point, let them go on as long as they wanted. | |
| He stood on stage while they made their speeches. | |
| Interesting picture because those two guys are the last two Iowa caucus winners, and there's Trump up there on stage with him. | |
| And then he turned it over to the series of veterans. | |
| You know, he made his own speeches and he announced how much money he'd raised. | |
| But there was it was not a political campaign event in the sense that Trump has been doing them. | |
| It was clearly focused on his charity of the troops, fundraising and counter. | |
| In fact, Trump even started his event 15. | |
| In fact, I'm gonna tell you I made a prediction. | |
| I was chatting with some friends, instant message going back and forth here, iChat message, whatever it is. | |
| And when Trump didn't show up right at nine o'clock, I said, you know what, I tell you what he's doing. | |
| He's letting this thing establish on the pretext that people are going to get bored. | |
| Trump won't show up for 15 minutes. | |
| He's gonna wait until people watch the Republican debate. | |
| He knows people are gonna go there first. | |
| And when he thinks they're getting bored, that's when he'll walk out. | |
| And then I further. | |
| Should I admit this? | |
| Yeah, I'll go ahead. | |
| I then further texted to one of my compatriots last night. | |
| I said, my prediction is that the first time Ben Carson is asked a question is when Trump will come out. | |
| And by golly, by gosh, if that isn't what happened. | |
| So I mean, I think Trump chose what he would consider to be a low point, low energy. | |
| Enough time had gone by, maybe people get bored, then he bops out. | |
| And he even announces that he wanted to let them get started over there. | |
| Yeah, and he didn't want to usurp anything they were doing. | |
| Go ahead and let them get started, and then he'll come out and does his event. | |
| There was a period of, it seemed like 30 minutes when Trump was nowhere to be seen. | |
| The camera at the Trump event, like always, did not pan the room. | |
| It was constantly on the podium in the center of the stage. | |
| So after about 20 minutes of no Trump, I started asking myself, is he on his way across the street? | |
| Is he gonna storm into that geowah? | |
| I've never seen this. | |
| It's a Trump event, and he's not on it. | |
| He had totally turned this over to his uh his troops, the people that he's met along the way, who were doing their own speeches and so forth. | |
| They said, Where's Trump? | |
| Well, it turns out he was there. | |
| He was always backstage off to the side. | |
| It's just the cameras at that event were not were not showing Trump. | |
| And I you know, I was still the whole first, I guess, half hour, I kept thinking that I wouldn't be surprised if Trump shows up at the Republican debate, even when it was not even possible. | |
| I had the possibility wide open in my in my mind. | |
| Who did you think won the debate, Mr. Snerdley, if you didn't think that it was Rubio, who did. | |
| You think he says Trump. | |
| Trump won by not being there, just took all the oxygen out of the room, his absence. | |
| And uh so these guys end up destroying each other. | |
| Trump's not there. | |
| Trump did not get hit, they all did. | |
| They got hit by the moderators, they got hit by each other. | |
| Trump did not even get swung at last night. | |
| Not seriously. | |
| Some people tried to crack jokes. | |
| Cruz tried to crack a couple jokes. | |
| You think they fell flat? | |
| You think Cruz's jokes fell flat? | |
| Well, we'll get into all that. | |
| I'm gonna have a brief time out here. | |
| That's just a little bit of the of the setup. | |
| Um we've got all kinds of analysis and audio sound bites of what other people think about this. | |
| Of course, that's not why you're here. | |
| You're here to find out what I think about it, and I'm not going to shirk from that responsibility. | |
| Oh, I did want to mention uh this is a this is a great thing. | |
| You know, I never tout Rush Limbaugh.com. | |
| I just I I should, because it's so good, but I don't for reasons I have previously. | |
| It's not it, it's that I have a qualm about just constantly saying, hey, folks, go to my website, hey, folks, go look at what I say, hey. | |
| This self-promotion, this hucksterism, every time I see it done by others, I I cringe. | |
| I imagine other people are. | |
| But what's happening here? | |
| This campaign is creating a new tune-in factor on this program, rivaling those in the past. | |
| We are having expansion here at geometric proportions, and it's it's it's bleeding over to the website. | |
| People are going there and liking what they are seeing, and they're signing up. | |
| We have two sides. | |
| We have a paywall and we have a free side. | |
| And Rushlimbod.com is a veritable encyclopedia. | |
| You know, you got these people that write down what they think once or twice a week. | |
| I have 15 hours of spoken word every week, three hours a day, documented, transcripts, Audio, video. | |
| It is a veritable encyclopedia. | |
| I was thinking the other day that if I wanted to put together a series you know how these columnists put out books now and then of their columns over the years. | |
| What if I did a book that published many of my monologues over the 27 years? | |
| How many volumes would it require? | |
| It could be bigger than the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. | |
| That's how much content has been created here in 27 years. | |
| Remember, there are very few guests, statistically zero. | |
| And yet everything is transcribed and end up, ends up being published at Rushlimbaugh.com. | |
| And I tell you, for people who find it, they don't see anything like it because of the volume, because of the content. | |
| And it's of course not just me, it's everything I talk about is linked to as well. | |
| So it is encyclopedic, and it's it's exciting when people find it. | |
| And sign up on their own without any sort of promotion, which I guess I'm kind of doing here now. | |
| We'll take a timeout, we'll come back, we're revved up, we're ready to go into the weekend here on the EIB network. | |
| Sit tight. | |
| So if you happen to be listening to BBC, um, yesterday or last night. | |
| The British broadcasting company. | |
| There's a show called BBC GMT, BBC World's GMT. | |
| The BBC is world service. | |
| And they have a host of this program, guy named Stephen Sacker. | |
| Maybe it's Saker. | |
| I don't know. | |
| And he was talking with Terry Moran, who is the chief foreign correspondent, Terry Moran, ABC, which means he has a really nice trench coat. | |
| All foreign correspondents have to have really cool trench coats. | |
| Peter Jennings had one, and you have to wear it out there, because when you're foreign correspondent, and you gotta smoke our fake herbal cigarettes or maybe the real things, but you gotta, you gotta have the look. | |
| You spend all your time in bars after you've done the news, and you find various exotic women to have affairs with. | |
| That's what a foreign correspondent does after your 30-second report on the weekly news and nightly news. | |
| So Terry Moran's talking to this guy at the BBC, who's trying to understand Trump. | |
| He's trying to understand the American political system. | |
| So the host of this BBC show says to the foreign correspondent, ABC News Terry Moran, if Donald Trump wins the Iowa caucus, can you see any of the other candidates mounting a real effective momentum? | |
| Any kind of a serious challenge to Trump if Trump wins Iowa. | |
| Sound bite number 24, coming up in three, two, one. | |
| This is a party that for a generation has been built for just such a candidate as Trump. | |
| Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio star for more than a generation, who has his own brand of blustering bragadaccio and gleeful political incorrectness, has been one of the most powerful figures in this party for a long time. | |
| They have prized rudeness. | |
| This is a party that has been ready for Trump. | |
| He's picked up something that was there and run with it. | |
| Do I need to translate this for you? | |
| According to the foreign correspondent at ABC, Terry Moran, I am Trump. | |
| Trump is simply following the lead of your host, Rush Limbaugh, blustering braggadocio, gleeful political incorrectness, and of course prized rudeness. | |
| There's no rudeness on this program. | |
| I'm the politest host. | |
| Go at rude. | |
| You know, a liberal thinks you're rude when you criticize them. | |
| A liberal thinks you're rude if you tell jokes about them. | |
| You are not supposed to laugh at liberals. | |
| You're certainly not supposed to tell jokes about them. | |
| And if you know it's good for you, you won't even criticize them. | |
| That's all considered to be rude. | |
| But aside from that, if this guy Moran thinks this, then I will guarantee you a whole lot of other American drive-by media people are talking And chatting about this amongst themselves. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| You know Trump. | |
| This is what Limbaugh's been doing for over a generation, 27 years, gets on there, brags about himself, greatest this, biggest that sits up there, criticizes us, makes fun of us, tell jokes about minorities and so forth. | |
| Yeah, this guy's rude, man, it just paved the way for Trump. | |
| Trump sees what's going on, sees how successful, and taps right into it. | |
| So one of these kind of little innocuous sound bites around 29 seconds gives a very sizable indication of what these people trying to figure out the Trump phenomenon, ascribe it to. | |
| Of course, they miss it totally. | |
| They haven't the slightest idea. | |
| And remember, they're the smart ones in their minds. | |
| They're the ones with depth and nuance, and they haven't the slightest idea what the Trump campaign or ascendancy means. | |
| Terms of insider versus outsider, they haven't the slightest idea. | |
| They think it's all showbiz-related stuff. | |
| Back in a sec. | |
| Okay, before we get the audio sunbites of the debate and your phone calls, just given a little sketchy, really sketchy review of what happened. | |
| I I I thought the debate had an entirely different intensity level as I watched it without Trump. | |
| Everybody's very aware Trump's not there. | |
| Everybody's wondering what that's gonna mean. | |
| They start asking themselves, okay, how does this feel as I watch it? | |
| Does it feel like something's missing? | |
| Is there some excitement, potential excitement we know is not going to happen? | |
| And even if it does, do we care? | |
| If a couple of candidates go after each other, we're gonna get mad. | |
| If one of the moderators goes after a candidate, are we gonna get mad like we would if Trump was there? | |
| These are all questions I was asking myself as this was uh starting, and I assume that a lot of you were as well. | |
| I was also asking myself, okay, the commentary it after this whole thing is over. | |
| You know, I um folks, I've if I may I'm another observation for you. | |
| I have often said that I believe it was at first this program, which started in 1988, which was the forerunner to the creation of a whole brand new alternative media, conservative media. | |
| I think the arrival of this program as the first national over the air media, broadcast media that was unabashedly conservative, and then the things that came afterward, other talk shows than blogs, Fox News, I think all of that brought the mainstream media out from behind the curtain. | |
| And I've I've always believed that the drive-bys were no longer able to hide their objectivity. | |
| My program flushed out media liberals who had successfully hidden their political agendas. | |
| And as such, partisanship has become the order of the day, no matter where you go in the media. | |
| The so-called mainstream media, mainstream media, very few of them today even make a pretense of being objective. | |
| It's it's so not true now. | |
| But it used to be the way that they all operated. | |
| We're rejective, we're fair, we're unbiased. | |
| When they were the only game in town, they were able to hide and camouflage their liberalism and make it look like the natural order of the day. | |
| Then this program comes along, and others following it, and it expose all that, and they were they were flushed out. | |
| They could no longer hide their political agenda. | |
| Partisanship became clear as media types couldn't resist getting into the open and front opinion business. | |
| They relished it. | |
| They relished dropping the cloak of objectivity. | |
| And the competition was on. | |
| And it that's why I think the partisanship has gotten worse. | |
| I do. | |
| I I think there were obviously more peaceful times before this program started and and its uh offspring. | |
| And by peaceful, there wasn't any resistance. | |
| I mean, people who thought the media was liberal talked about it around their kitchen tables, and that was it. | |
| Or they talked about it at church. | |
| But that's as far as it went. | |
| If you thought the media was biased in favor of uh Democrats, anti-Republican, it stayed with you and whoever you discussed it with. | |
| Well, once that became or once a national forum for that point of view, hit the airwave, This program, all bets are off. | |
| They can no longer hide. | |
| They were flushed out. | |
| Some of them loved, some of the drive-bys loved getting into the opinion journalism business. | |
| Some of them loved the fact they didn't have to hide it anymore, didn't have to fake it. | |
| A very few continue to operate under the phony false premise that there is no liberal bias and that everybody's fair and objective. | |
| I think Trump is doing the same thing to certain elements of the right-leaning media. | |
| People have made the mistake that there are two different and very distinct media, the drive-by's, the mainstream, and all of us in the whatever you want to call it, the new media, conservative media, alternative media. | |
| But within that universe of alternative media, new media, so-called conservative media, there are their own factions. | |
| And some of those people have been masquerading as conservative media, masquerading as conservative think tanks, or conservative institutions. | |
| Trump has come along and for whatever reason flushed out the not quite so conservative conservative media types. | |
| And their agenda is now exposed. | |
| So what has happened here is that agendas are being dragged out of the shadows everywhere, all over the place, kicking and screaming, and people are learning, excuse me, that places they thought were conservative may not be. | |
| People they thought were conservative may not be quite as conservative as they thought. | |
| Maybe some of them are much more tied to the establishment than was originally thought. | |
| And I think, and by the way, I'm not this is not a secret way of praising Trump. | |
| Again, it's another observation. | |
| Because all of the agendas are being exposed now, and people are capable of identifying them, and because they're aware of who has an agenda and what the agenda is, they know whether to be suspicious or doubtful or to sign on and support it or what have you. | |
| And my point is just because we don't see partisanship doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. | |
| exist. | |
| It just means that some people are prone to being ignorant and making false assumptions. | |
| I think it's all good. | |
| I think it's all healthy. | |
| I think people being able to hide their agendas behind firewalls, paywalls, phony walls, whatever it is, I don't think it's good. | |
| I think whoever and however all this stuff gets flushed out so that you know, you're listening to commentator, reporter, wherever you find them, columnist, you know. | |
| If you know they've got a this my whole point about identifying the ideology of people, and particularly identifying liberals and liberalism, because nobody likes what they do. | |
| Nobody likes living in the circumstances created by liberals. | |
| But I they vote for them. | |
| And they vote for whatever the host of reasons we know what they are. | |
| The Republican brand has been damaged greatly for a whole host of reasons. | |
| And then there's the compassion angle. | |
| Well, I think I'm helping people. | |
| Democrats care about people, they love people. | |
| You know, for the minorities, and they're for the victims of all that rot gut, which is not true. | |
| It's just window dressing. | |
| So people vote for this stuff. | |
| I mean, look at Obama's approval numbers now. | |
| Have you seen Bill Clinton's approval numbers? | |
| Bill Clinton's approval numbers have plummeted 39%. | |
| The Democrat Party is more worried about that than they are what's happening with Hillary's numbers. | |
| Because Bill was always the firewall, The stopgap. | |
| Bill was always what was going to save Hillary. | |
| His numbers are plummeting. | |
| He's not drawing crowds. | |
| He's having trouble drawing crowds like Hillary had to draw crowds and couldn't when her book tour was happening. | |
| A host of reasons for it as well, not the least of which is that we've got a whole new generation of people here who are not dazzled by the Clintons, who didn't grow up dazzled and mesmerized and idolizing them and so forth. | |
| So it's a it I think all this being flushed out is good. | |
| You know, I did something last night watching the debate that I've I always try to avoid doing because it's it's it's it's easy and it's maybe too easy, makes it a little cheap. | |
| And I've always resented it when people try it on me. | |
| And what I mean is you watch the debate, you say, damn, what you know what I would have said, I would have said X. If that asked me that, and you're it's a it's a way people criticize the people in the debate, since we're talking about that, but it could be anybody appearing on TV, radio, or whatever you hear them. | |
| No, no, you know what you really should have said if people run around thinking they've got all the answers, they know what they would have said, people on TV are choking or what have you. | |
| But I found myself doing that last night, not about specific people, but I said there's something missing in this debate. | |
| For me, there was something, something I was I wanted to see, I want to see at every debate. | |
| There was something missing, and it probably is because there are moderators who take debates. | |
| I mean, let's face it. | |
| The moderators, all of them always try to turn the combatants against each other, or in some cases, the moderators try to turn the combatants against the moderators. | |
| And the moderators want to become part of the story. | |
| As such, the real problem in this country gets touched on now and then, but it's never the focal point. | |
| And to me, I was saying to myself last night, gosh, if I were on that stage, especially if Trump's not there, if I were on that stage, I don't care what they ask me. | |
| Every time I open my mouth, I would start reminding people why they're scared, why things are going wrong, and I would blame the big L. The big L liberalism would have come out of my mouth, and I would have tied it to current events, current statistics, current circumstances. | |
| Because that's really what we're trying to stop, is it not? | |
| What all this is about at the end of the day is stopping what Obama started. | |
| Now, arguably, lots of people started it before Obama. | |
| He's just the most radical. | |
| But the point is, this has to be stopped. | |
| And instead, what we get, and I don't know how you do it, how do you avoid it with current debate structure and format. | |
| But what you get mostly is gotcha, like last night they played video for Cruz and Rubio, showing them making ostensibly conflicting statements in the past versus what they're saying now. | |
| And the demand is, so were you lying then? | |
| Were you lying now? | |
| Is the basic thrust of the question. | |
| You mean it back then or do you not mean it, and do you mean it now? | |
| And so you have a bunch of people defending themselves, defending their positions, which they've got no choice. | |
| They're forced into this, and this is not a specific criticism. | |
| You know, I'm just observing it. | |
| This is the way these network-moderated debates are always going to be. | |
| And there were only two candidates that I saw that had video histories shown to them. | |
| That would be Cruz and Rubio. | |
| It happened to be the two frontrunners, right? | |
| There wouldn't have been an opportunity. | |
| Maybe they would have tried it with Trump. | |
| Uh that was the essentially the first question Meghan Kelly ever asked. | |
| It was one of those without video. | |
| Mr. Trump in the past, you've said X and Y and Z about women, and we knew what happened. | |
| But uh so it's not a criticism, it's just a wish. | |
| A wish, as I I think what we're all united against is stopping what's happening, the destruction of the American economy, the destruction of the American health care system, the attack, the I mean the straight forward frontal attack on the American culture, | |
| on decency and morality, all of these things, the out of control and destructive spending for which a do bill is going to be presented at some point down the road. | |
| And people have legitimate fears that that bill's going to be presented when their kids or grandkids become adults, and it's going to stand in the way of anybody creating a nice living for themselves with enough wealth to be able to save money to send kids to college. | |
| These are things that people are genuinely afraid of. | |
| And while there's an understanding in a debate that that's what the people on the stage are aligned against, they end up having to defend themselves on the minutiae many times of policy. | |
| Like who's really against amnesty and who's really not, and who's tricking Republican voters? | |
| Who's really part of the establishment? | |
| And it's all relevant. | |
| But the objective here is to end up discrediting people to the point that they no longer survive. | |
| And the real intent and the discovery of do we have anybody on this stage? | |
| Is there anybody on this stage who really gets it that this stuff that's had has got to be stopped? | |
| So that's like a what if a wish list for me as I watched this thing last night, and not just this one. | |
| I'm a little long. | |
| It's time to take another obscene profit time out here on the EIB networks. | |
| Stay there, folks. | |
| We're coming. | |
| This is unbelievable. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, apparently the movie 13 Hours is being written about as a flop at the box office. | |
| And I'm being blamed for this. | |
| Cookie just sent the audio soundbite to Sun KTTV, good day LA in Los Angeles. | |
| The guest is the editor of Rotten Tomatoes, which what is that? | |
| That's a rating website where people, individuals can rate movies and TV shows. | |
| Guy's name is Matt Atchity. | |
| He's the editor in chief. | |
| They're talking about the movie 13 Hours, the Benghazi movie, and the KTTV eyeball news co-host Steve Edwards and the Rotten Tomatoes editor-in-chief have this exchange. | |
| The movie 13 Hours, which filmmakers hope would be like sniper. | |
| A lot of conservative radio station hosts, et cetera, were getting behind this movie. | |
| It didn't drive the box office. | |
| It didn't, not really. | |
| It did okay, but not the way Russ Limbaugh would have you believe, right? | |
| Like everybody wanted to turn this into show what the Americans want to see, and you know, let's do a conservative movie. | |
| So this guy, from 13 hours, you might not have heard it because of the crossover, the crosstalk. | |
| He said Rush Limbaugh would have you believe, like everybody wanted to turn this show into what the Americans wanted to see. | |
| And you know, let's do a conservative movie. | |
| And so he's trying to say that I was one of the big promoters of the movie, and so I'm so out of touch. | |
| The American people don't care to go watch a conservative movie, Ben Genghis, and this proves it. | |
| And there's only one problem. | |
| I haven't seen it, and I haven't said two words about it. | |
| One way or the other, I have not seen the movie. | |
| If you want to know the truth, Paramount, this is the weirdest thing, it's it's never happened before. | |
| Paramount offered a DVD, closed captioned. | |
| I have to have that, or I can't hear dialogue. | |
| And a week later, it hadn't arrived. | |
| So we checked, and we nope, Paramount has withdrawn the offer. | |
| They don't want to send the DVD. | |
| They're worried about piracy and so. | |
| so I never got the DVD. | |
| I never saw this. | |
| I haven't said one word about it because I haven't seen it. | |
| Well, I've I may have commented on what other people have said, but I have not seen this thing. | |
| To review it, to promote it, diddly squat. | |
| If I had seen it and promoted it and liked it, there might be a little different story out there, but I haven't seen it. | |
| I get movies on 3,000 screens now. | |
| It's 13 hours. | |
| Just got added to 528 theaters, but I'm just telling you, had I seen it and liked it, they wouldn't be talking about it being a flop. | |
| I guarantee you that there's a lesson to be learned here. |
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