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RUSH: They\u2019re doing a little deal on Fox, they got their polling guy out there saying, “You know what, it was…” Oh, I\u2019m trying to contain myself here, folks, trying to contain myself. I\u2019m right a lot, it\u2019s no big deal most of the time. This one\u2019s big. One hour ago I said the way a lot of people are gonna watch that debate last night is a young son embarrassed of his bloated, overbearing father who\u2019s wrong about everything and his son is trying to tell his father the world has changed. And Fox is doing a story right now saying that there\u2019s polling information, a lot of 20 and 30-year-olds saw this thing entirely different than people our age, their parents\u2019 age, and so forth.<\/p>\n
It looks like, in terms of TV ratings, Biden had \u2019em running for the exits early. The numbers in the presidential debate, about 70 million people watched the presidential debate. Right now, before we get the cable numbers, we\u2019ve just got the network numbers, the network numbers have it at about 30, with CBS being number one at ten and a half million. ABC, NBC, then Fox at 5.3, Fox network, not cable. You add those up, you get about 20. The vice presidential debate in 2008, 69 million, with Palin and Bite Me. So if the numbers are down, it\u2019s another thing. Biden send \u2019em running away. They went to watch playoff baseball. They went to watch the Steelers. Who wants to sit there and watch that kind of thing? Your economic situation is in the toilet; who wants to watch some doddering, old mean guy laugh at you, or laugh during a discussion of that?<\/p>\n
You know, Biden forgets there are real people in this country who have been profoundly damaged by the economics of this country right now. Whether they blame Obama for it doesn\u2019t matter. A discussion of it comes up last night, people who watched this stuff take the election of a president seriously. You got a bad economy, you got an incumbent sitting there, young challenger, and the incumbent, the guy starts laughing in the middle of a discussion about this? These people are worried about their taxes, their Social Security, what the hell they\u2019re gonna have to pay to get us out of this debt, and we got old man Biden there laughing about it? And then he starts laughing in a discussion about security and dead ambassadors. You know, laughing about practically everything for the first half hour. I\u2019ll bet you a bunch of young people did see an overbearing father that they think doesn\u2019t get it. I\u2019ll betcha. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: LA. Dan, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Dan, are you anywhere near the 12-mile route that they\u2019re moving the shuttle today and tomorrow?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Boy, I tell you. I looked at the LA Times video <\/a>and it\u2019s an amazing feat. Two days to move this shuttle 12 miles.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah, I think they cut down 300 trees to do it.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right, right.<\/p>\n RUSH: I didn\u2019t mean to distract you with that. I just thought maybe you\u2019d seen it. What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, my question is how many people were lost on Joe Biden. My girlfriend, who\u2019s an independent who voted for Clinton, she\u2019s watching that. She doesn\u2019t follow politics a whole lot. She\u2019s in her fifties. As soon as he started saying the whole thing about “my friend, my friend,” I tell you: She was about to hit the ceiling with that.<\/p>\n RUSH: When he was calling Ryan his friend?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. When Bite Me kept saying that over and over and over, she got so irritated that she couldn\u2019t watch the rest of the debate.<\/p>\n RUSH: Why? She thought it was condescending or that Ryan really isn\u2019t his friend and he\u2019s lying about it?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah, the condescension.<\/p>\n RUSH: Condescension.<\/p>\n CALLER: The kind of used car salesman it had to it.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah. Well, I have flash polling data that indicates your girlfriend\u2019s not alone. CNN internal numbers and others thought that women were especially put off by Joey last night.<\/p>\n CALLER: I couldn\u2019t agree with you more. She actually had a friend of hers call and she said the same thing with that “my friend” crap.<\/p>\n RUSH: And remember, now: It was guys like Ryan conducting the War on Women, right?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n RUSH: That\u2019s what they want us to believe. “Paul Ryan, he\u2019s involved in the War on Women,” and then you\u2019ve got Biden behaving the way he behaved.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right, right.<\/p>\n RUSH: I think he was. It was a turnoff to independents, a turnoff to women. He called Ryan his “friend” 14 times, and we know that Ryan\u2019s not his friend. We know he hates Ryan.<\/p>\n CALLER: I couldn\u2019t agree with you more. She also thought, you know, that Joe\u2019s kind of got this Uncle Joe thing. You know, he\u2019s a nice guy and everything. I think that bubble was burst last night.<\/p>\n RUSH: I do, too. I do, too. I couldn\u2019t be happier to hear you say that, even though this is just an anecdotal story. It\u2019s not scientific. It\u2019s just one guy\u2019s girlfriend. But, folks, there\u2019s more of that out there. Biden blew up all of the bubbles last night. I\u2019m telling you, that\u2019s why I opened the program<\/a>, for those of you who didn\u2019t hear it, with that observation. I tell you what I want you to do, Dan. You still there, Dan, by the way?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n RUSH: You have a good relationship with your girlfriend?<\/p>\n CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n RUSH: Can you be honest with her? I want you to try something with her. I know how you said she\u2019s not day-to-day immersed in politics.<\/p>\n CALLER: No.<\/p>\n RUSH: And she\u2019s an independent.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, we\u2019re told the independents don\u2019t like this kind of behavior of confrontation and arguing and disrespecting. They just want people to work together and all. Would you say your girlfriend\u2019s like that?<\/p>\n CALLER: I couldn\u2019t agree with you more.<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n RUSH: Then I need you to do something for me.<\/p>\n CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n RUSH: I\u2019m deadly serious. The next time you talk to her about this, whenever the opportunity is… Don\u2019t tell her I said this to you.<\/p>\n CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n RUSH: I want you to offer it as your own opinion, maybe ask her if she\u2019s ever considered it. No, don\u2019t do that. My point is: What Biden was last night is the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n RUSH: That\u2019s who they are.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n RUSH: It would really help if women like your girlfriend understood that that was not an exception to the rule last night. You take the gloves of and you put \u2019em in what they think is a safe environment where they can\u2019t lose, that\u2019s who they are.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n RUSH: I would love for your girlfriend and other women to realize that\u2019s the Democrat Party today. It\u2019s not just Joe Biden.<\/p>\n CALLER: I agree. I think it exposed a lot, because her friend is in her forties, and she said the same thing. You know, this whole thing about Joe being a nice guy and the Democratic Party for women and everything. I think that ruined a lot of it.<\/p>\n RUSH: Were you guys still watching when Biden was talking about getting out of Afghanistan in 2014 and turning things over to the Taliban, who are our friends?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. (chuckles)<\/p>\n RUSH: We\u2019re working with the security forces in Afghanistan. They gotta stand up for themselves. We need to get out of there.<\/p>\n CALLER: I was still watching it but she got so pissed off, she couldn\u2019t watch it anymore.<\/p>\n RUSH: Good. Happy to hear it. That confirms my instincts. So I appreciate the call. Thanks much. Now, you tell her. You tell her. When it\u2019s safe, you know? When it\u2019s safe. You don\u2019t want you to be provocative with it. Just say, “Honey, that\u2019s the Democrat Party. That\u2019s just who they are,” and see what she says.<\/p>\n CALLER: Rush, thanks for taking my call. I wanted to take a moment of your time to tell you that your show on Wednesday<\/a> was fantastic, especially the first hour. And to think I almost missed it! On Wednesday my local radio station, KMOX in St. Louis, preempted your show to broadcast other news activities happening in the nation\u2019s capital: The St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals postseason game. If it wasn\u2019t for me being a Rush 24\/7 member<\/a>, I would have missed that great message on Wednesday.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, I really appreciate that, and I want everybody to know this is the first time I have ever talked to Lyle in Edwardsville, Illinois. Snerdley doesn\u2019t know him, either. Lyle, you were not paid, right? This is coming from the bottom of your heart and the top of your brain?<\/p>\n CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n RUSH: Exactly. I really appreciate it, really appreciate it. What did we do on Wednesday that was so hot?<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n CALLER: You\u2019ve been my professor for so long, my 18 year old son is now a student of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Learning.<\/p>\n RUSH: (laughing) Well, thanks very much. It\u2019s great to have you with us here.<\/p>\n CALLER: Thank you. I watched the debate last night, and Joe Biden, if I can use your name for him?<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: Bite Me showed America what a despicable obnoxious, dishonest rude little creep he really is.<\/p>\n RUSH: Did you think this of him before you saw the debate last night?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes. (giggles)<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: I cannot tell a lie. (giggles)<\/p>\n RUSH: So you just had it confirmed.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes. But he really made me sick. It was very unprofessional, and Paul Ryan, he was the epitome of class, I mean, he was cool, collected, he showed incredible strength while being respectful to a boor of a man —<\/p>\n RUSH: Did anything —<\/p>\n CALLER: — (giggles) with no understanding of honor.<\/p>\n RUSH: Did anything about Ryan bother you, in the face of all this? Did you wish Ryan had behaved differently?<\/p>\n CALLER: Um… Me personally? I woulda punched the guy out, but no. He was what we need for this country, someone to restore honor and respect for the presidency.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, your story is being told all over this country, and I\u2019m telling you: The fact that your story is I think the majority story is evidenced by the AP dropping this now. AP\u2019s latest story is (paraphrased), “Okay, nothing to see here! Uh, attention now is refocused on the next debate with Romney and Obama.” If Biden had cleaned up last night, they wouldn\u2019t drop this. They would still be hyping it and focusing on it.<\/p>\n I mentioned at the beginning of the program a possibility that people in their twenties and thirties might have seen this thing in a totally different way than you and I. They might have seen a guy that looked like an out-of-control, boorish, dominating father who doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. And a son being respectful, trying to tell his dad that he\u2019s wrong. But it\u2019s his dad and he\u2019s not gonna be disrespectful, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n I think there\u2019s a possibility that people might interpret it that way.<\/p>\n And, lo and behold, an hour ago on CNN… I saw it at the top-of-the-hour break right as the show was starting so I didn\u2019t have time to listen to it. But apparently there is that reaction to it somewhere, enough places that they\u2019re studying it being via polling data. But it turns out it was a disaster for Joe Bite Me. 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<\/a>RUSH: Lyle in Edwardsville, Illinois, I\u2019m glad you waited. Open Line Friday, you\u2019re up, hi.<\/p>\n
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