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Feb. 16, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 16, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Why did this feel so weird today?
Folks, I overslept.
The Catherine's out of town, and so I'm on my own here getting up, and I don't know, may.
Maybe I'm coming down with something that I don't feel like it, but norm.
Well, I don't know.
Normally the cat, you know, wakes me up either to be fed or because the cat knows it's time to get out.
We usually pause my face.
Didn't happen today, cat said, screw you.
So I look up, I get up and look at this.
9.15.
Oh my God, I've already been up and at him in a long 9.15, and this is before I even had get ready to get in here.
So I knew that people would be panicking.
And I sent emails and text every time, okay, overcake overslept, no problem.
But I've had an hour and a half cut off the day here, and I feel naked sitting here.
I feel woefully unprepared and ill-equipped to do the program today.
Even though I was up late last night doing show prep, there's always stuff that comes in this morning, and I've I've been just scrambling here, trying to uh catch up.
But it's just the weirdness.
You know, a lot of people think I get up at 11 o'clock and come in here at noon, do the program and go home and do whatever.
And uh, I would love it.
My day starts at new in rush, I can sleep late every day.
Yeah, you think so, but it isn't the case.
So anyway, I don't offer this as an excuse, but just an explanation.
This could be one of those days where you people know more than I do.
Um not with uh cumulative or accumulated knowledge, but there may be some things that have happened this morning or late last night that I still haven't discovered yet.
But we nevertheless uh we're we're prepped and we're here and we're ready to go.
It's great to have you here as always.
The telephone number's 800-282-2882, and the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Did I not tell you?
Did I tell you right here it is in the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump makes pitch to Democrats in South Carolina?
That had to be the explanation for Trump's strategy on Saturday night.
It had to be South Carolina's an open primary.
Trump, and we had the news yesterday that polling data is all over the place, by the way.
The internal Bush poll for which there are two sources.
So somebody in the Bush camp is leaking polling data, because this is internal stuff.
And the internal polling of candidates we hardly ever see.
And in this case, it's not all that close to the public polls that we have.
In the public polls, Trump still has a reasonable lead.
In the internal Bush poll, he's only got a two-point lead, which is margin of error tie.
It's 2624 in the internal.
That would explain uh Trump probably has the same data.
That would explain Trump going after Cruz, and he did yesterday, the press conference, got that's those sound bites as I promised.
He doubled down on it all today.
Um then backed off and then tripled down on it.
Uh says he's gonna sue Trump.
This is now he's uh sue crews, now he's not sure if he's gonna sue Cruz.
But anyway, Trump is making a play for voters other than Republicans.
Now, isn't it fascinating?
Because let me ask you a little pop quiz.
Who in the Republican primary started out by claiming happily and joyfully that he was gonna win the Republican nomination without the base.
Whose strategy exactly right, Mr. Snerdley.
It was Jeb Bush.
Jeb Bush and the donor class were gonna win this nomination despite the base.
Remember this now?
And isn't it fascinating that the guy who's actually trying to pull that off and is it may have some success at it is Donald Trump.
Isn't it amazing the way things turn?
Yeah, Jeb and the donor boys were gonna go out and just flood this primary with money.
They were gonna divide the conservative candidates in the race, they were gonna divide their money, divide their voter support, and the old rule of politics that he has the money wins.
Jeb was gonna end up scorching the field simply because they wouldn't have anywhere near the amount of money he did.
And look, Jeb is in last place, depending on the poll you look at, and there hasn't been any significant upward movement in any way, shape, manner, or form.
He brings out former President George W. Bush yesterday.
And I don't know.
Have you seen some of the comparisons?
Some of the comparisons are why hadn't W running again.
Man, this guy's on top of it.
This guy comes off like a confident cowboy on all kinds of rave reviews about W out there, but I'm hearing people say that the contrast from W to Jeb is not that good.
Anyway, I find it uh curious that they were gonna they were gonna race to victory without the base, and Trump is the guy doing it.
Now, in Trump's case, it's not the original.
Well, maybe it is.
You know, maybe maybe maybe Trump is all along known that he was going to make this move in uh in open state primaries.
Because he's been, as I told you for the longest time here, Trump's constituency is not just members of the Republican base, it's not just conservatives, it's from all over the place.
A lot of independents, a lot of moderates, a lot of old what they call Reagan Democrats, make up the Trump coalition.
But this internal Bush poll, I'm sure Trump has access, makes it look like that he's not going to have the slam dunk South Carolina victory.
Crew is creeping up, so hence the attacks on Cruz, and for good measure he throws in similar attacks on Rubio.
But it is it is clear that that's what Trump's trying to do.
Now it's it's it could be self-preservation, or it could be a desire just to smoke the field.
If he wins big in South Carolina with a broad-based coalition, uh then he pretty much thinks that he may be able to hammer the final nail in the coffin.
Or it could be that he has to do this in order to win, and the win might not be that big.
We uh don't guess I say the polling is all over the place, but the internal Bush poll reported in two different places.
There isn't any other poll that has crews anywhere near that close.
Cruz is gaining, Cruz is outperforming in every primary election, he's outperforming where he stands in the polls.
So, and we'll we'll get into that here in detail in uh in just a second.
But folks, have you seen the top story linked Drudge?
Another former girlfriend of Bill Clinton's has uh resurfaced.
Her name is Sally Perdue, her name now Sally Miller.
Sally Perdue coming out of the closet, so to speak.
She was one of Bill's paramours back in the 70s when he was the governor of Arkansas.
And it's a story in the UK Daily Mail, and it's well, it's it's I'm just gonna pass along the details to you.
That the Daily Mail is reporting from Sally Miller, i.e.
Purdue.
She says that Bill Clinton was so-so in bed, that he used to put on her frilliest nightgowns and dance around playing the saxophone.
It's what she's saying.
I'm just telling you what she's in.
Clinton would put on her nighty and dance around the room playing the saxophone.
Miss Purdue says that during Pillow Talk with Bill Clinton, Bill told her that Hillary.
Well, that Hillary preferred female lovers.
This is what the Daily Mail is saying.
I'm just reporting here.
Sally Purdue told the Daily Mail that Bill Clinton told her, Sally Purdue, that Hillary preferred female lovers.
Now, that don't go crazy.
That information with the way things are in the Democrat Party today, that probably is gonna help Hillary.
Don't the old standard application of stuff like this.
Oh my God, that's a devast.
No, no, no, no, no.
In this day and age, that's probably a resume enhancement.
Uh even if it's not true, it doesn't matter, just that it's out there, and it's not the first time something like that's been out there.
But here it comes again with a close confident of Bill Clinton, with him supposedly the source for the for the information.
At least in the Democrat primaries, it's a resume enhancement for her.
Um, Hillary's out there barking now, trying to imitate.
I guess the story is that back when she was somewhere sometime, they had a dog, and the dog barked when the dog heard a lie.
Something like a really short version of the story.
And so now that Hillary is out there saying that we need a dog.
We need a new dog to bark every time the Republicans start telling lies.
And then she started barking like a dog.
With a big crowd behind her on stage.
It was at a public appearance.
She started barking like a dog.
I'm looking for the audio sound because I know I saw it.
Here it is, grab number 16.
I asked for a montage.
I want a montage of some sounds of Hillary has made done to just a and they're working on that now.
But it was in a Reno.
And oh, and Dingy Harry's mad at her because she went out, she said, eh, you know, the Nevada caucuses, it's not it's not really that important because there's no diversity in Nevada.
80% of the vote out there is white, and they're all gonna go for Bernie Sanders.
Dingy Harry blew a gasket over her insult to the electorate of his state.
Anyway, here's Hillary barking like a dog in a Reno last night.
One of my favorite favorite political ads of all time was a radio ad, rural Arkansas, where the announcer said, wouldn't it be great if somebody running for office said something?
We could have an immediate reaction as to whether it was true or not.
Well, we've trained this dog.
And the dog, if it's not true, he's gonna bark.
I'm trying to figure out how we can do that with the Republicans.
You know?
We need we need to get that dog and follow, follow them around, and every time they say these things, like, oh, you know, the Great Recession was caused by too much regulation.
All goes.
It goes much longer than that.
She kept barking and barking, but that would I'm sorry, folks.
That she went on barking for like 10 seconds there.
But anyway, we're gonna put a montage together of this.
Now, here's the thing about this, though.
There's two things.
Do you notice how she's obsessed with the fact that they need a truth detector out there?
Bill Clinton was obsessed with that when he called KMOX St. Louis about me.
They are paranoid out there that people are lying about them.
And what that really means is they're paranoid, they're not getting away with their lies.
When she talks, yeah, we need a dog.
We need a dog start barking when the Republicans lie, such as there was too little regulation or too, whatever would she say there was uh too much regulation caused the banking.
The banking crisis.
Side issue trying to explain once again what that was about, but if time permits, I will.
But anyway, the the second point about this, if this were a Republican, that's all you would be seeing on cable news right now.
And you would be watching long discussion segments on cable news.
Assembled experts and guests would be asked to explain the Republican's state of mind.
Is the pressure of the campaign getting to him, they would be asked.
Is this the kind of temperament we want to see in a potential president?
All of these questions, and it would be designed to once again, by virtue of perception, attempt to destroy and impugn the image and reputation of said Republic with Hillary.
They're burying it, and if and those places that are not burying it are not acting like it's any big deal.
Uh, and it's not the first such verbal screw up that Hillary has engaged in, such as the screeching, angry, out-of-control womp woman talking about not being allowed to dissent against sitting administrations and then the other the black dialect, I no way tart.
All this kind of stuff that literally would destroy any Republican.
They would, the media would take the occasion of these events to destroy any Republican.
This is gonna be looped.
It already is looped.
It's gonna be added to songs, who let the dogs out.
You can bet this is gonna be all over social media.
The Clintons can't control that.
It's gonna be out there everywhere.
It's gonna be out there with people laughing at her, making fun of her.
It's gonna be part of uh social media supporters trying to defend her.
I just don't know the impact that it's going to have on her as it would damage a Republican.
But regardless, it's funny as hell.
And we can ask the same questions.
Is she cracking up?
Is the pressure getting to her?
And I guess it's a legitimate question.
Remember, this started out as a coronation.
This started out, Bernie Sanders was there for a faux fight.
And now this has turned into she lost New Hampshire, might lose Nevada, which was supposed to be the Western firewall.
Now we go to South Carolina, and it's being said that the only thing going to save her there is the African American vote.
This is not how this was supposed to go.
Bill Clinton was not supposed to have joined the campaign this early.
And Bill Clinton joining, he's being laughed at, made fun of, and commented upon as looking old and decrepit and out of it and clearly not the same Clinton that everybody knew in the 90s.
None of this, I guarantee you, was supposed to happen.
But even with all that, I mean, how else could legitimately be their nominee?
She's still going to be the one, it would seem.
That would be smart money would say.
Let me take a quick time out.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Don't go away, folks.
Okay, so the Democrat presidential front.
Can we call her the front runner?
Well, she's the presumed nominee.
I don't know that she's the front runner now.
Well, she is in delegates, so that we'll call her the front runner.
The Democrat frontrunner is barking mad.
And everybody's talking about how out of control Trump is, and all you got to do is visit the Hillary campaign.
So she's out there barking to illustrate Republicans lying, some old dog in a radio commercial in rural Arkansas that she remembers.
But get this headline from the Hill.com.
Frustrated female senators say Clinton is victim of sexism.
Women serving in the Senate say that Hillary Clinton is being subjected to an unfair sexist double standard on the campaign trail.
Senator Barbara McCulski, the Dean of the Senate women, said she's often judged by a double standard.
Many of we women feel that there's a double standard.
What's being said about Hillary is what women have heard for centuries.
You're too loud.
You're too aggressive.
You're too pushy.
Why do you want the vote?
Nobody's saying that anymore.
You know, the whole men have been tamed into being practically docile.
These nobody says that.
These people are living in a time warp.
They're living in an era.
These people can't, in Hillary's case, she can't get out of the 90s.
These feminist senators in the in the female senators can't get past the 60s and 70s, which is the birth of the modern era of feminism.
And just like the African American community, the civil rights coalitions.
They still think it's the 1800s.
Or 1960.
It is amazing.
These people on the left, they keep talking about building bridges to the future and so forth, and they are stuck back in the historical period where they think life was toughest for them.
And then they talk and complain and whine and moan as though no progress has been made.
So Barbara McCulski with a complaint that feminists were whining about back in the 60s and 70s.
Double standard, equal pay.
Non-issues anymore, except in Hillary's office where women don't make as much as men.
What's being said about Hillary is what women have heard.
Who's saying she's too loud or too aggressive?
Barking like a dog.
McKulski.
What do you mean too loud?
People are saying she needs to cry more, like she did in New Hampshire.
People say she needs to start making sense.
But nobody's saying she's being too loud, too too aggressive.
Too pushy.
That's old stuff.
But here they are stuck in it.
Senate Democrat women have raised their concerns about the public treatment of Clinton in private conversations with their colleagues.
McKulski said there are many Senate men that feel the same way.
It's an equal opportunity for frustration.
When are we going to start talking about ideas?
Who are these men?
I'll tell you that they're henpecked.
Your average ordinary liberal meterosexual, docile.
Hardly notice the guy kind of.
Yeah, they're running around echoing the same complaints the women do, because that's the only way they can get second base with them.
Everybody knows that.
Everybody's seen that.
Female lawmakers particularly galled by Bob Woodward characterizing Clinton's tone as screaming.
I can see why they'd be mad.
It's not screaming, it's screeching.
She screeches.
You know, there is, ladies and gentlemen, there's a double standard with Hillary Clinton.
And we have to be honest about it.
She's being judged by a double standard, I will admit.
And it's this.
If Hillary Clinton were a man with her identical record, she would not even be running for president.
She would have been laughed out of it.
With her demonstrable failures like the Russian reset, her wide ranging incompetence, led by whatever went on in Benghazi, and we have a pretty good idea.
Her willingness to lie to the American people and the families of the dead in Benghazi.
Her basic lack of understanding of the job of Secretary of State, that it's more than just accumulate accumulating a lot of hours and days flying around the world.
I I'm not I'm serious.
If there were a man who had been Secretary of State with her horrible record running for president, I guarantee you he would be judged much more harshly than Mrs. Clinton has been.
Mrs. Clinton isn't judged at all, particularly by people on the left.
They want to coronate her.
She gets the most favorable press of any person in this race outside of Barack Hussein Obama.
There is a clear double standard from which she is benefiting.
The fact that she is a woman covers her incompetence and masks it.
And the fact that she is a woman prevents anybody from seriously going after her on that debate.
You won't see Bernie Sanders do it.
Bernie Sanders won't go after her incompetence as Secretary of State, even if he thought it, because she's a woman.
And you still don't hit the woman no matter how far the feminists advance.
There's still certain societal norms.
You don't invade a woman's space.
You don't theoretically, figuratively or literally hit the woman.
You know you don't be mean to the woman.
You just don't do it no matter who the woman is.
Even if it's Nurse Ratchet, you don't do it.
And she benefits from that.
She benefits from having a record that is not scrutinized.
And the proof, you know what generated that whole story here about these women in the Senate being upset that Hillary is being victimized by sexism, Bob Woodward characterized her speaking pattern as screaming.
And they're all having a cow in the Senate over that description of Hillary speaking.
Men are routinely made fun of for the way they speak.
They're routinely commented upon by the way they speak.
The words they use, the speech patterns.
You know, with men, everything's fair game.
You can go after men for any reason whatsoever, including for being a man.
Look at how protected Hillary is because she's a woman.
Because she's a leftist woman.
As a leftist woman, she's a victim.
Hillary Clinton, a victim.
Who has earned 115 or 50, whatever it is, million dollars over the years doing speeches, being paid 256,000 dollars by Goldman Sachs to come in and speak for 20 minutes.
And she will not release the transcripts of those appearances.
You know why?
Because she goes in and she tells them how wonderful they are.
She goes in and tells them how important they are to the U.S. economy.
For that kind of money, she goes in and sings their praises.
That's why you'll never see a transcript of Mrs. Clinton's Speech or speeches before banks, because while she's on the campaign trail trying to make voters think that she's going to get even with them and she's going to take them down and she's going to punish them, she's out kissing their butts in private in order to become independently wealthy.
But you can't say that because she's a woman that's to attack the woman.
So, yes, she's benefiting greatly from a double standard.
That she is a woman.
Now let's move on to the Republican race here.
There are a series of stories on polls, and some are conflicting.
Um confirming.
Here we go.
First up is the uh Columbia, South Carolina, the state newspaper poll.
Donald Trump's still leading in the this is after the debate, by the way, after they call it the explosive Republican debate on Saturday night in Greenville.
Trump still leads the race for second place appears to be narrowing behind Trump, who has 35% after the debate.
Behind Trump, 35%, Rubio and Ted Cruz are tied now at 18%.
Now, Trump, that's Trump almost doubles them individually.
If you combine uh Cruz and Rubio, they lead Trump by a point, and that is interesting.
Keep that in mind.
Cruz and Rubio in the South Carolina the state poll, each at 18 is 36.
So you have well, another way to look at it on the Trump side is that 35% of the electorate in South Carolina, the Republicans, these are these are Republicans being polled, and Trump's at 35%, and all the other Republicans are picking up the remaining 65%, and two of them, Cruz and Rubio combined, are at 36%.
And this public policy polling has the same results.
In fact, it might be a public policy polling poll.
Yeah, I'm sorry, the states where this was published.
And it's it is so it's PPP, public policy polling left wing polling outfit out of North Carolina.
So Trump 35, Cruz and Rubio 18 each.
On the Democrat side, Hillary leads Bernie Sanders by 21 points.
Sanders is making gains among black voters, but still trails by uh, well, it can't be 40 if Hillary has a 21-point margin.
In this story from Breitbart, let's see if this is the same poll.
Can't tell.
Guess we'll have to read it together here to find out.
A new poll in South Carolina finds Donald Trump maintaining his large lead, but also shows Trump slipping slightly since Friday.
Rupio and John Kasich in this poll are edging higher.
This is the South Carolina GOP poll.
The new poll was conducted on Sunday by the South Carolina House Republican caucus.
Follows their previous poll released Friday ahead of the debate.
The Sunday poll also conducted after the Republican debate on Saturday night.
In the new poll, Trump leads with 33.
So over at public policy polling, he's at 35.
In the South Carolina GOP poll, he's at 33.
That's down two points since Friday.
Cruz and Rubio are tied for second at 14% in this poll.
Cruz is down two points since Friday, and Rubio is up a point.
Jeb Bush in fourth place at 13%, that edges out Kasich, who has 10%.
And uh Ben Carson is in last place with just six percent of the vote.
So what can we take away?
Well, we take away here is that in the immediate aftermath of the Saturday night debate, no measurable negative impact on Trump has been measured.
But some people say that you need to wait two or three days for something like that to settle in and look at polls taken two or three days after a debate to have a more accurate portrayal of people's opinions of it.
I folks, I I you remember when Trump said that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and not lose any of his support.
I think he's fairly close to being accurate there.
We've spent hours on this program explaining why that is, explaining his appeal.
There's a guy in the New York Post named Mark Cunningham with another stab at explaining Trump today, which I'll share with you in just a moment.
But as I said yesterday, if this performance on Saturday night.
Now what do we let's let's sum it up again.
This was a Republican debate.
We had the front runner extolling the virtues of Planned Parenthood.
That's never been done before.
I don't even think John Kasich would do it.
We've never had did Romney do it?
Did Huntsman do it?
I can't I don't think it's ever happened.
I don't think a Republican front runner has ever extolled the virtues of Planned Parenthood as clearly and loudly as Trump did.
Trump also went after in South Carolina, a revered former president, George W. Bush, who still maintains an 80, 83 percent approval rating there.
He not only went after Bush, he went after him as didn't keep the country safe.
The Twin Towers came down while he was president, knew there were no weapons of mass destruction.
I mean he went into this debate.
It was clear what he was doing to me.
It's an open primary Democrats and independents can vote.
Trump needs them or wants them, one of the two.
Either Cruz is gaining ground rapidly and he needs those votes, or he wants those votes to just swamp the rest of the field in the Saturday night primary and put the final nail in the coffin, so to speak.
It won't be over if he wins big on uh on Saturday, but it would be it would be closer.
But he's also signaling a bunch of other things.
But as the front runner to say these things, and if it didn't hurt, my point yesterday, and I'll repeat it, if it didn't hurt, I think it demonstrates even more so the disconnect between the establishment and the people.
Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country.
And I don't think the establishment even now has any idea.
The rage, the anger, the betrayal, which is what it is.
The majority of people in this country feel a profound betrayal by the Republican Party, and there's a deep resentment that uh a bunch of faceless, nameless money brokers, lobbyists, and donors are shaping the future of the country by virtue of neutering the Republican Party.
And the outrage at that is profound and deep, to the point that uh if if if this doesn't hurt Trump, it's just gonna put an exclamation point on how angry, how ticked off on both sides of the aisle people are.
Back after this, folks, hang in there and be tough.
Greetings, welcome back, Al Rushbone, the cutting edge.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Here is Wendy in Houston.
Wendy, you lead off today.
Great to have you with us on the program.
Oh my goodness, it is such an honor to talk to you.
Thank you so much for everything that you do.
Well, thank you.
Thank you so much.
And my children love your book.
So thank you, thank you.
I'll start with that.
So thank you.
Huge honor.
I just want to call because I am listening to this, and I I am a huge anti-establishment, cannot stand all of that.
But yet I still don't get it with the Trump thing because he doesn't stand for our conservative beliefs and values.
Whereas there is a candidate who does, who stands up for what we believe in, and he has anti-establishment.
So I don't understand how Trump can continue to say these things, especially have the audacity to support Trump Pierre and all that he did on Saturday, and then it's still the people won't leave him who consider himself to be conservative when there is a very viable option.
So I'm hoping you can help me understand.
Let me say this again, and I uh need you to hear me this time.
The majority of Trump's support base is not the Republican base.
Right.
The majority of Trump's support base is not conservative.
There are quite a few, but it I don't think they're the majority.
And if if they are the majority of the Trump support base, it's a very, very tiny majority.
His coalition.
It's really ironic.
The coalition that that Trump has put together is exactly what the Republican Party has been telling us conservatives they need to do to win.
While they have been, while they have been uh blowing us off.
While they have been lying to us, they've been saying, no, no, you can't win with just you guys.
We need to go out and these Well, Trump's doing it, and they don't want any part of it.
In the second place, remember Jeb Bush said that he was going to win the nomination without the base.
Guess who's doing it?
Trump.
That's right.
So go figure.
Exactly.
But then Trump is, I don't understand why people don't get more fired up the conservatives against him.
Why people are not standing up against him and going with Cruz, who is standing up against the establishment plus the value.
What are your thoughts there?
Uh I my theories are probably just the same as yours.
I I uh you know, you've you've got any number of alternatives to Trump.
And Cruz is the leading alternative right now.
Yes, but he's just at 18%, I think you just said.
Is that correct?
He's he's tied at 18% in South Carolina with but he's outperforming every in every election, he outperforms what the polling says.
I think I think Cruz is the uh what's the term?
He's the uh he's the sleeper out there.
It's Cruz that's sneaking up on everybody.
Everybody's focusing on Trump.
So what is it gonna take to wake everyone up and to cross that line if if Trump comes in and makes it big in South Carolina in this primary, then what is it gonna take?
Is it just done deal?
What do you think it's gonna take?
Uh to do what?
To then get wake everybody up to to switch over and you said the the slumber with Wendy, I think everybody's awake on our side.
I think that this is what you gotta come to g everybody's awake.
And there are a lot of people.
You're putting me in a very difficult position here.
I've got I've got no no no, I'm not complaining to you.
You do you don't know, because I don't I don't wear my my blood on my sleeve.
You know, I don't bleed and whine and moan and complain to the audience about things that happen to me because I don't uh it's it's I'm bigger than that.
But I uh you would not believe the number of people who are coming at me as though all this is my fault.
That I could have stopped this way back when if I would have just been a leader.
If I would have just done this or that, I have been sitting around observing.
I have been a conservative all my life.
I've been doing this radio program as a conservative for 27 years.
There is no doubt anywhere all across this country who I am and what I stand for.
There's no misunder well, there might be some misunderstandings among people that don't listen, but there's no misunderstanding that I am a conservative.
And and that uh well arguably the Mr. Big of the vast right wing conspiracy.
Um it's a challenging position I'm in here because there's some things I I probably shouldn't say.
I've got two responsibilities here, folks.
I've got my responsibility to you, the audience, which I put it number one.
My responsibility to this program, my career, my job, not my career, but this is the thing I've chosen to do.
There are all kinds of people who depend on me doing it and doing it well.
That's my number one focus.
I'm not the leader of the conservative movement.
I've never sought that.
I'm not denying uh any.
So already right there.
What a minute, you mean you've been lying to us?
No, I haven't been lying to you.
It's not my job to get votes for people.
Damn it!
It's theirs!
What more do you want me to do?
The best thing I can tell you, folks, I guess, as I assess all this, is this is not an election, a competition of philosophies.
We're way beyond that.
People are not going to rely on philosophy to accomplish anything.
You can have the best philosophy in the world, I don't care what you call it, and it's not going to mean anything if you're up against somebody who succeeds at making people think he's gonna break balls, kick butts, take names, put people in prison, fix the country, make the country great again, whatever the hell that means to people.
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