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July 20, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Have Soundbite32 standing by because A woman by the name of Meredith McIver has released a statement through the Trump campaign about the Melania Trump speech.
She wrote it.
Meredith McIver.
She's released this statement just recently, last 15 or so minutes.
And the drive-bys are busy dissecting this, trying to analyze this.
And what does it really mean?
Because, of course, it can't be what it says.
There's got to be something unstated here.
There has to be something going on.
Is this woman falling on a sword for the Trump campaign?
Did she really not do it?
And instead saying she did it to avoid taking the heat off or to try to take the heat off others.
Let me read the statement.
It's not very long.
To whom it may concern.
And by the way, there's something very interesting in this statement.
You'll hear it when I read it.
To whom it may concern, my name is Meredith McIver, and I am an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization.
I am also a longtime friend and admirer of the Trump family.
In working with Melania Trump on her recent First Lady speech, we discussed many people who inspired her and messages that she wanted to share with the American people.
A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama.
Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama's speech as examples of things that she liked.
I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech.
I did not check Mrs. Obama's speeches.
And this was my mistake.
And I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused, Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama.
No harm was meant.
Yesterday, I offered my resignation to Mr. Trump and the Trump family, but they rejected it.
Mr. Trump told me that people make innocent mistakes and that we learn and grow from these experiences.
I asked to put out this statement because I did not like seeing the way this was distracting from Mr. Trump's historic campaign for president and Melania's beautiful message and presentation.
I apologize for the confusion and the hysteria my mistake has caused.
Today, more than ever, I am honored to work for such a great family.
I personally admire the way Mr. Trump has handled this situation, and I am grateful for his understanding.
Sincerely, Meredith McIver.
So, the drive-by is, well, now, wait just a second.
There's got to be more to it than this.
They're all speculating.
It can't just be this simple.
No, no, no, no, no.
And what, what is it?
They immediately began to check something out.
I watched a couple of these people at the top of the hour break on CNN.
This line that Meredith McIver includes in her statement, a person Melania Trump has always liked is Michelle Obama.
So the CNN reporter said that she got on the phone with the Trump campaign and said, did you guys vet this statement?
Did you approve of this statement going out?
Do you know what this statement was going to say?
And do you have any problem with McIver saying that Melania has always liked Michelle Obama?
And the CNN reporter said, no.
The Trump campaign said they got no problem with it.
They vetted the statement.
There was no problem in any way with this.
So that is that.
That is ostensibly what happened.
Bottom line is that Melania Trump said she liked Michelle Obama and read the speech writer some passages from Obama's speech, Mrs. Obama's speech, as examples.
And the speech writer wrote them down and did not go back and check the actual speeches Michelle Obama had given, thought she was hearing the words of Melania Trump, jotted them down, included them in a speech, and that was the mistake.
So that's that.
Drive-bys are going to be unhappy if this ends it.
Here's audio soundbite number 32.
They don't believe it yet.
They still think that Trump is going to lose in a landslide.
And they're struggling here with how to view what Trump's doing on Melania's speech.
This is CNN Inside Politics, John King speaking with Jonathan Martin from the New York Times.
Donald Trump's a smart man.
He may operate outside of the rules.
He happens to be the Republican nominee for president and go back six months.
And a lot of us were saying, come on, there's no way he can pull this off.
It's the ideological party.
They're coming out of the Tea Party election.
So he's a smart man.
So he knows if they stir this up today, the third day is going to be dealt by this.
And he did it anyway.
What if he's right?
Somehow.
Then Democrats are going to have a very tough four years.
And there's going to be deep and lasting questions about how politics in America has changed.
Right on.
Donald Trump's a smart guy.
He may operate outside of the rules.
He happens to be the nominee.
Go back six months.
A lot of us were saying, come on, no way he can pull this off.
Remember, they were all thinking that he was just one ill-gotten statement away from imploding.
They thought it was going to happen.
Everybody thought it was going to happen, and it didn't, of course.
So now you've got the controversy over Melania plagiarizing Michelle Obama.
And everybody's wondering, oh, is this it?
This has got to be the end.
This is another one of these big faux paza.
They can't possibly survive.
And so they're thinking, maybe Trump's doing this on purpose.
Maybe there's a.
They're admitting they don't know how to analyze this.
They're admitting they don't know how to look at this.
In fact, we're going to move forward to soundbites.
I need to find grab soundbites number eight and nine at least, because this is more of the same here.
This is NBC special coverage, Republican National Convention.
And the NBC crew is Tom Brokaw, F. Chuck Todd, Nicole Wallace, and Savannah Guthrie.
And we're going to play you audio soundbites of that moment in time when they realize that Trump has changed the rules of politics and that they're covering the wrong things.
They're focusing on the wrong things, like the plagiarism.
Nobody cares.
They think it's a disqualifying thing for Donald Trump that his wife plagiarized Michelle Obama.
They've been harping on that ever since it happened.
That's been that and whatever else they think.
Too many Trumps on stage, the hate of Hillary Clinton.
They're missing it all.
They don't understand at all what is unique and different about this campaign.
And they're starting to realize it is the point.
That's why I asked the question about Cruz.
I'm telling you, folks, you should see various blogs, conservative blogs, and drive-by media.
The question of the day is whether Cruz is going to endorse Trump.
And obviously to them, the answer to that question means a lot.
It may mean everything.
To them, I guess we're going to conclude that if Cruz doesn't endorse Trump, why, oh, that's more party disunity.
Oh, my God.
That could just be the end of it.
Oh, my God.
If Trump doesn't get Cruz's endorsement, then Cruz is simply using the occasion of the evening to promote himself for 2012.
My God, this is horrible for party unity.
Others are saying, don't kid yourself.
Everything every speaker says is vetted.
Trump's not going to let him go out there unless he's going to endorse him.
Yeah, but once he's out there, he can do whatever he wants.
And if they don't grab the hook, you get away with it.
The point is, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter, but it does to them.
They think it's huge because they're looking at this all wrong.
They're looking at this the way they've always looked at things.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
It starts with Tom Brokaw and Savannah Guthrie.
He has changed the rules for American politics.
We just have to begin with that.
We can't look at it in terms of what the past is.
It's about how he has changed it.
We're playing by different rules.
I mean, everything that we have grown up knowing about politics and how you succeed in it, Donald Trump has set aside in the last year.
Yeah, see, this is that moment in time where the NBC crew is starting to figure out that the standard ways they have always been able to rely on to take out Republican candidates is not working.
They've been trying to take Trump out since last June.
They have been trying to take Trump out every moment of every day.
They can't do it.
They thought they were going to take Trump out with Melania's plagiarism.
They think they're going to take Trump out because Chris Christie had the audience shouting, lock her up, lock her up.
They think they're going to take Trump out because there's too many of his kids on stage.
They think they're going to take Trump out because Patricia Smith went up there and blamed Hillary for the death of her son's death of her son.
And now that Trump is triumphing and Hillary and Trump are tied for the most part to all these important polls, they're pulling their hair out.
They've launched their bazookas.
They've launched their RPGs.
They have deployed their IEDs and Trump is still rolling.
It's not supposed to be.
Trump's supposed to, remember, he was supposed to have been destroyed in June.
Remember that meme?
Oh, yeah, presidential elections.
If you look really and honestly, presidential elections are decided in June.
That's when Hillary had her 11-point lead, was running all the ads.
Trump didn't have any money, wasn't spending any.
And they thought it was over.
And now Hillary's continued to flitter away.
Trump is slowly regaining ground.
And they're coming to the realization that maybe they're going about this the wrong way.
Here's Nicole Wallace.
Now, Nicole Wallace was a Bush administration communications office official who's now moderate Republican.
She goes on TV as a Republican strategist, right?
But she's the one, I think, said she couldn't vote for McCain because Palin was on the ticket.
And if something happened to McCain, Palin would become president.
Palin was so stupid that she just couldn't do that.
She was one of Palin's handlers.
Here's her two cents on this.
Don Berkeley's point is right.
We all watched the wrong thing.
What people saw was a beautiful, loving wife giving a testimony about her husband.
We spent a lot more time talking about the mashup with Michelle Obama's speech.
What they saw tonight was his lovely son and a passionate speech from Chris Christie tonight.
So I do think sometimes we're watching the wrong thing.
It doesn't mean it doesn't deserve our scrutiny because every other campaign would get scrutinized, but Donald Trump somehow manages to skate through.
That's it.
They can't.
They're so frustrated.
Trump survives every hit, every assault, every takedown.
Trump survives it.
And so they're beginning to think, you know what?
We're watching the wrong things.
Nobody cares about the plagiarism.
What they saw was a beautiful, loving wife giving a testimony, testimony about her husband.
And the kids, nobody, we're not seeing what everybody else is seeing.
And here's F. Chuck Todd, who is amazed that Trump's standing in the polls is still high, and Savannah Guthrie has to try to explain it to him.
Our own poll came out today, and we should not, on the day of all this, he's closed it to more than one point in our survey monkey truck.
This is the bottom line.
I mean, it's not just about whether Donald Trump has changed American politics.
The people have changed American politics.
As long as Donald Trump is a protest vote, as long as he irritates elites, as long as he bucks the establishment, as long as he takes orthodoxy of either party and turns it over on its head, he will continue to get a lot of support among the American public.
They're sending a message.
Yeah, that was not a happy moment on the set at NBC News last night when they finally had to come to grips with all this.
And it's going to continue.
And by the way, they're not the only ones.
All the other networks are in a similar position because they've all taken their shots at Trump.
Believe me, folks, this focus on Melania and the plagiarism, you and I, we know what that was for.
They're trying to take Trump out.
They're trying to destroy Trump's candidacy right now.
So it didn't work.
Now they're trying to hit Ben Carson, trying to hit Chris Christie.
Too many Trumps on the stage.
I mean, they're pulling out all the stops.
They're making stuff up now in order to prove to themselves they can still destroy Republican candidates.
Be right back after this.
Don't go away.
Say, by the way, before we go back to the phones, do you know that Michelle Obama plagiarized her speech?
Elizabeth Dole.
Yes, you want to hear it?
Here we go, chronological order in reverse.
Melania Trump Monday night in Cleveland.
Work hard for what you want in life.
That your word is your bond.
And you do what you say and keep your promise.
Michelle Obama in 2008.
You work hard for what you want in life.
That your word is your bond, that you do what you say you're going to do.
And in 1996 in San Diego, Republican convention, Elizabeth Dole.
Because they know he's honest, trustworthy, a man of his word.
His word is his bond, and they know he has exceptional leadership.
Well, not word for word, of course, but look how similar the statements are.
And, you know, this is what real people understand.
This is not, these are commonly expressed bromides.
They are philosophies.
And there's only so many ways to express them.
And there is no, I mean, Michelle Obama didn't originate these words.
And therefore, the whole notion of plagiarism, I think ordinary people, no big deal.
They just don't see it.
Don't understand what the big deal is.
In fact, let's see.
Okay, where is it?
I've got two stacks here, and I don't remember where I put what.
There's one.
Let me rabbit call.
That's what I want to do here, and I'll find what I'm looking for.
But it's on this plagiarism angle.
And we have Paul here from Hartford, Connecticut.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Nega Ditto from Connecticut Rush.
Thank you, sir.
You said the story of the day today is: you know, the media is very concerned about whether or not Ted Cruz is going to endorse Donald Trump tonight.
Yeah.
And, you know, as a Trump supporter, I do believe that Donald Trump can beat Hillary Clinton in November without the support of Ted Cruz.
It would be great to have his support and Jeb Bush and, you know, whoever the other guys are who are not extending support to Donald Trump.
You know, it would be nice, but I think he can win without it.
But my question is: I want to go back to the very first Republican presidential debate that occurred.
I believe it was the very first one.
You know, 10 candidates up on stage, and the very first question that was asked to all the candidates was: would you unequivocally support the eventual Republican nominee for president?
And they made them all raise their hands and promised to support the eventual nominee.
And of course, we all remember Donald Trump was the only one who didn't raise his hand, which caused a firestorm for that week, right, that he wouldn't support.
And he eventually did.
He eventually came out and said he would support, and he provided the letter that he signed saying that he would.
Well, my question is: you know, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz are coming out and saying that they are not going to support Donald Trump.
They all made that promise back then, and I believe they all signed letters back then saying that they would.
So I don't even understand how this can be an issue today.
You don't understand how it can be because so you think because they signed and made the pledge that that's it.
Your word is your bond.
And trust what you say, and that that's it.
And, you know, they backed Trump into a corner.
You know, the media and the RNC backed Trump into a corner.
You know, nobody used to do it.
I'm sorry, but nobody expects these people to keep their promises.
Those days are long gone.
Do you think anybody going to hold any of this against any of these guys?
Kasich.
Kasich signed all that, and Kasich's not even there.
His nose is so out of joint, he won't even, he's a governor in a state where this is all happening.
Agreed, agreed.
And, you know, I think that's the sad truth.
I think you're 100% correct, and I think that's driven a lot of the changes we've seen over the last year.
Yeah, I just, I can't, of all the reasons, Ned could be wrong about this, but let's say it's election day.
We're doing exit polls, people coming out of the polls.
Who'd you vote for?
Yeah, I voted for Hillary Clinton.
Really?
Why?
Well, because Ted Cruz, he promised.
He promised to support Trump, but he didn't.
So the hell with that.
So I voted.
I just don't see people voting because of these pledges that are either followed or not.
I don't think it's rare anymore when people keep a promise.
Meaning, everybody expects them to not keep them.
I don't know if that's an indictment of the whole process system or not, but I don't think I'm wrong about that.
And we're back at it here.
Man, the hours and the minutes are just flying by here.
It's great to be with you, 800-282-2882, if you want to be in the program.
And folks, an observation here.
We've got the polling data.
The Democrats are in panic over this, and they have been for a week or 10 days.
And that is that the Real Clear Politics average of polls has Hillary up 2.4.
And this is after, you know, she's had a plummet from being up 11.
All of the conventional wisdom has been turned upside down.
All the things the leftists and the drive-bys have been able to rely on to predict the future, to give them a relative confidence about things is blown to smithereens now.
Now, here's the point, though.
All of this is happening with an essential boycott of the Trump campaign by Republican establishment figures.
Now, I know that Paul Ryan showed up and Mitch McConnell showed up, but you probably know this.
But the Bush contingent of the party is not there.
The Bush contingent is big.
And there are people, both inside and outside the Bush contingent, the establishment Republicans, who are convinced that Trump is going to lose in a landslide.
And they are already positioning themselves to be the architects of what's left of the Republican Party to rebuild it with themselves running the show.
Jeb Bush is one of those people, but there are others.
And they're just convinced that Trump's going to lose this in a landslide.
It's going to be ugly.
And this party's going to be so fractured and dispirited that it's going to be wide open to be rebuilt.
And there's a whole bunch of maneuvering going on even as we speak.
And guess what?
The Chamber of Commerce has just done endorsed Hillary Clinton.
Had you heard that?
Is it the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce?
Wait just a second on that.
Are you sure?
What did I do?
It says, I'm sorry, folks.
I've got all these different stacks.
I found the story I was looking for.
I guess I'm not going to have to dig this one up.
I hope you're right that it was the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
But it wouldn't have surprised me if it was the real Chamber of Commerce.
I'm sorry.
Oh, did I?
The Chamber of Commerce.
But the point is, imagine if the party were unified.
Now, I know some of you might be saying, no, Rush, it wouldn't help.
These people are despised.
It's the best thing in the world for Trump that they're not part of it.
I know that thinking exists, too.
Here's what I was looking for.
They tried, the drive-by media tried to find plagiarism in Donald Trump Jr. speech last night.
I have a story here from the Democrat front group, the Center for American Progress.
This is run by Podesta, Bill Clinton's former chief of staff.
They're not a news organization, but they, well, they effectively are because they publish a news feed on Twitter and Facebook and so forth.
They're just extreme fanatic leftists.
And here's the story that they posted.
The Trump campaign spent most of the day trying to explain why large chunks of Melania Trump's speech were lifted from Michelle Obama's address in 2008.
Now, Donald Trump Jr. faces similar accusations regarding a portion of his speech.
A passage on education reform, first flagged by the Daily Show's Twitter account, appears to be lifted from a May article in the American Conservative.
Okay, so what is this group?
First off, this is a, it's a, the Center for American Progress is a Democrat front group.
I don't know if they're a not nonprofit or what, but they're disguised as a think tank, but they're just, they're part of the Clinton apparatus.
And they disguise themselves.
So they publish these opinion pieces as though they are independent acts of commentary or journalism.
And they get them posted on various news feeds.
And here this guy is citing something flagged by the Daily Show, a comedy show, and the Twitter account there.
And that is that Donald Trump Jr. lifted a portion of his speech from a May article in the American Conservative.
Trump Jr. said, our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class.
Now they're stalled on the ground floor.
They're like Soviet department stores run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers.
Well, says the Center for American Progress, compare that to the article in the American Conservative by F.H. Buckley.
What would be an elevator to the upper class is stalled on the ground floor?
Our schools and universities are like the old Soviet department stores whose mission was to serve the interests of the sales clerks and not the customers.
So the Center for American Progress thinks they're onto something.
D.J. Trump Jr. plagiarism.
Why, two nights in a row?
Oh my God, we couldn't have this big an orgasm if we had sought it out.
We've got another blatant act of plagiarism, and they're trying to alert everybody to it.
There was only one problem, and that is that Mr. F.H. Buckley of the American Conservative helped Donald Trump Jr. write the speech.
There was no plagiarism.
Plagiarism.
F.H. Buckley is a law professor at George Mason University who writes for the American Conservative.
He says, look, I'm a principal speechwriter for his speech.
It's not an issue, Buckley told Vox.
You can imagine what a crushing disappointment this was in the corridors of mainstream media across the fruited plain because they trust the Center for American Progress like they trust Media Matters for America because it's a Clinton front group.
And if something comes out of there, it's got to be gospel.
And they thought they had Donald J. Trump.
My God, they thought even after Milani is a Trump campaign stupid enough to do it again, and they thought that they had.
Until Mr. Buckley informed them that he was on the speech writing staff.
And so another clear illustration of how the left is operating here.
You notice it's another example.
Don't argue with what Donald Trump Jr. said.
Don't try to debate him on the subject matter because they know they will lose.
Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class.
True.
Now they're stalled on the ground floor.
True.
They're like Soviet department stores run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers.
You know what the name of the Soviet department store is?
Gum G-U-M.
And you can never find anything in there because the clerks got first dibs before the doors opened.
Anyway, Donald Trump Jr. was right about so much of what he said, and they don't dare.
They don't dare take issue with that.
No, no, no, no.
It's typical.
Got to go after the person and destroy them.
And that's what they do.
That's how corrupt, that's how morally bankrupt these people are.
This is how extreme and radical they are.
And if you want to get down to basic elements, it's how mean they are.
They're just flat out mean.
They're mean-spirited.
They have no manners.
They're viciously mean, intolerant little trolls who cannot withstand 30 seconds in a substantive debate over issues.
Their only hope is to destroy the reputation, the career, the credibility of the people who call them out successfully.
So they thought they had Donald Trump Jr. last night, folks.
They thought they were getting ready to throw another party.
They'd already booked the time on CNN to have all the plagiarism experts in and all the body language experts.
And then all the political scientists explain what would be a deleterious outcome of this.
And then all the other examples of Republican plagiarism they could dredge up.
And it all fizzled because it had not happened.
Stand by, coming right back.
Right, back to the phones.
Here is Mike in Cincinnati.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the program today.
Hello.
How are you, Rush?
Good.
Good.
Appreciate it.
Good, good.
Love the show today.
Hey, what I wanted to say was going back to the Melania speech the other night.
This is a typical example of the left taking really sweet, refreshing lemonade and doing what they always do and trying to turn it back into a lemon.
What Melania said is what good parents have been telling their kids, apparently, all around the world.
Melania is from Slovenia.
It's nice to know that parents over in Slovenia and probably China and Africa and everywhere else tell their kids, hey, do these things, work hard, stick to your guns, you know, your word is your bond, all this golden rule stuff.
And they want us to think that Michelle invented that.
And by the way, in Michelle's defense, maybe her parents really did tell her that stuff.
Point is, this is great to know that there are people around the world teaching their kids to do these really good things.
That's been my point all along.
Some of these things are so universal and time-honored, they are part of the human existence.
Yes, that's the point.
But these left-wing wackos, and I know way too many of them, by the way, I'm not going to name names, but they want to just undo that and just turn it negative.
Why?
Damn right.
They want to tear all that apart.
Look, most of the reasoning for that is psychological.
But one of the reasons they want to tear that stuff down is because they don't believe it applies to everybody.
Some people just don't have the proper equipment to work hard.
Some people don't have the intelligence.
Some people don't have the desire.
Some people are facing limitless discrimination.
Some people are being treated unfairly.
They're victims.
And so it sounds good for you.
I tell you where I first really ran into this was back in the mid-80s in Sacramento, and the homeless craze was just popping up all over everywhere.
And I happened to be doing a speech somewhere, and I talked about how maybe the solution to homelessness is work, get a job.
And half the audience started booing and started shouting easy for you to say.
And I said, wait a minute, if the whole concept of work and providing yourself has now become an example of bigotry, then where are we headed?
And it is, it still is that way.
And so these time-honored verse, these are what virtues are.
And virtues are part of humanity, no matter what part of the world you happen to be in.
And they're aspects of parenting.
Every parent, I don't care where you are, want a better life for your kids than you had for yourself, right?
That's right.
I mean, I'm sure you're shouting exceptions to me out there where the father isn't home or the mother isn't home.
But on balance, these are part of the human construction.
And to try to attach plagiarism to any of this is a losing proposition because Michelle Obama's words, while poignant, were by no means unique.
Every parent in the world at one time or another has used them with their own kids.
And that's exactly the point.
They're trying to take a really great message that we've all heard.
I taught my kids that.
My kids are doing phenomenally well.
All my friends teach their kids in so many words, in exactly those words sometimes, and they're doing well.
I wish more kids could hear it.
And that's what the left relies on, the fractured, miserable population.
And we've got to help somehow.
We've got to get it right.
Well, I'll tell you this, look, there's another reason why things like this are under assault by people on the left.
And you can smirk at this all you want, but Karl Marx, who was a blithering idiot and is yet revered as one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of all time, and he was one of the original pollutants.
Karl Marx is one of the original agents of corruption, of goodness and decency.
And Karl Marx believed that the family was the core element of capitalism and virtuous values.
And capitalism and virtuous values were the enemy of Marx's philosophy.
He believed the family had to be destroyed as a unit.
He believed that the family had to be torn apart.
And if you doubt this, ask yourself why are so many leftists so insistent that children be turned over to government-run facilities as early in life as possible for their education, for their molding.
I mean, what is Hillary Clinton's It Takes a Village to Raise a Child really all about?
You know, when you boil all these things down, I just check the email is what made me want to explain this.
Because I just did a riff on climate change again, and I pointed out that there is no evidence of climate change other than natural normal climate change.
It happens all the time.
It's never static.
But that there's no data.
It's just a bunch of computer models.
And somebody sent me an email.
You know, you keep saying the same thing over.
You think you maybe should try a new tack.
And it's a good point.
What is the real problem?
Well, I'll tell you what it is for me.
The real problem with people who believe in global warming is not that they believe in global warming, Because people are always going to be susceptible to things, particularly if they absolve them of any blame for something.
And people are always going to be searching for meaning in their lives.
So if you tell somebody that they can save the planet by eating organic cow pellets or whatever, they'll do it.
And if you precede this by telling them that they have participated in the destruction of the planet, but that they can now redeem themselves and save the planet, there are a lot of very susceptible, emotionally primed people willing to fall for that.
The real problem, the real danger in things like climate change is that people are willing, time and time again, to turn over more and more of their lives to an ever-growing central authority to run everything.
That's the thing that troubles me about it.
The fact that they believe global warming, eh, it's the solution that they all sign up for that scares me.
Bigger government.
Only government can fix something.
Only government has the solution.
Only government has the answers.
That's what scares me.
Because that has a line, and you follow the line, and as government gets bigger, people lose liberty.
The bigger the government, the less liberty.
And it just keeps going that way.
And people willingly throw it aside or not even aware that this is what's happening.
That's the big thing about this that frightens me.
I tell you, I was back home in Missouri, and I ran into a 31-year-old guy who said the thing that troubles him most about people in his generation is they are running across.
The government's not doing enough right now.
They're not making enough laws.
The government isn't doing enough to protect the disadvantaged.
The government isn't doing enough to save the planet.
The government isn't doing enough to destroy fossil fuels.
These are 30-year-old people, and their minds have been warped and poisoned with this.
And that's really the foundation of all this stuff that is dangerous, not the individual beliefs that they have been hooked into agreeing with.
All right, when we get back.
Ben Carson, did you like him last night or not?
I thought it was one of his best speeches in a long time.
Several conservative blogs said they thought it was his worst.
The media cannot believe what he did.
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