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<\/a><\/p>\nBLITZER: Ninety minutes or so \u2019til that six p.m. Eastern, five p.m. Central deadline.<\/p>\n
BLITZER: Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n
BLITZER: Everyone seems to be on board.<\/p>\n
BLITZER: Minutes away right now from a deadline, the embattled US congressman Todd Akin.<\/p>\n
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BLITZER: The deadline has come and gone for the Missouri Republican congressman Todd Akin to easily pull out of his Senate race.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that\u2019s the montage and we\u2019ve heard that before, haven\u2019t we? We\u2019ve heard the same format, the same thing. Let\u2019s go to back now to March 13th, 2006…<\/p>\n
BLITZER 2006: It\u2019s 4 p.m. here in Washington. So you\u2019re getting the first look right now at our brand-new poll. The president\u2019s job approval rating has taken a downward turn again, falling to only 36%.<\/p>\n
BLITZER 2006: This represents his lowest rating ever in the CNN\/USA Today\/Gallup poll.<\/p>\n
BLITZER 2006: The president\u2019s poll numbers are pretty bad, pretty awful right now, rock bottom as far as the CNN\/USA Today\/Gallup poll.<\/p>\n
BLITZER 2006: The president\u2019s Iraq problem and his new low point in the polls.<\/p>\n
BLITZER 2006: His approval and policies now are at new lows.<\/p>\n
AKIN: You\u2019re right on that. Essentially with the way I see things have shaped up, we\u2019ve given this a lot of thought. And that is the fact that over a — more than a year period of time, a number of us ran in this, uh, Republican primary. Each of us had our messages. I was, uh, outspent by a large amount in terms of media. And yet, uh, by standing on principle and putting politics aside and talking about the foundations of this country, the people in Missouri chose me to be their candidate. And I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s right for party bosses to decide to override those voters.<\/p>\n STEPHANOPOULOS: So…?<\/p>\n AKIN: So I think it\u2019s the… I think that really we should allow things to stand —<\/p>\n STEPHANOPOULOS: So are you saying that —<\/p>\n AKIN: — as the election process as unfolded.<\/p>\n I was very open saying I hope he does pull out, and I tried to make the case where it was the right thing to do, to pull out. But I made the point: I don\u2019t want people telling me when to quit this radio show. The heck with that! That\u2019s never gonna happen. So I understand that. But something happened. He\u2019s totally misreading what this is all about now. He\u2019s made himself bigger than the cause, and it\u2019s unfortunate. It\u2019s just unfortunate. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m being very guarded here, trying to be nice and polite.<\/p>\n Do you want to hear something really hilarious? Some writer at The Daily Beast… Now, that\u2019s Tina Brown\u2019s publication. She\u2019s a big lib, social doyenne. She\u2019s known for the perfect watercress salad at lunch, the right guest list. That\u2019s Tina Brown. Some writer at The Daily Beast said that Mitt Romney waited to hear from me before telling Akin to pull out. I kid you not. Now, I haven\u2019t spoken to Romney about this or anything in weeks.<\/p>\n But some reporter at The Daily Beast said that Romney waited to hear from me before telling Akin to pull out. The reporter\u2019s name is Michael Tomasky. “Rush Limbaugh finally called on Akin to get out of the race around 3 yesterday afternoon. And sometime after that, the Romney campaign released a statement saying the same.” (laughing) “Who\u2019s the leader of that party? And what kind of president of the United States will such a man be, who waits for green lights from Rush Limbaugh before taking ‘bold stands\u2019?”<\/p>\n This is an out-and-out lie. It\u2019s typical from the media today. That\u2019s Tomasky. This man\u2019s a joke. “Who is the leader of that party? And what kind of president of the United States will such a man be, who waits for green lights from Rush Limbaugh before taking ‘bold stands\u2019?” He wasn\u2019t waiting for me? And I never told Akin to go, as most everybody else did. Anyway, that\u2019s The Daily Beast.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: To the audio sound bites. I\u2019m gonna pick up number 11 and 12 here. This is last night on the Fox Business Network Willis report, Gerri Willis. Her guest is Bill Kristol, and they\u2019re talking about the calls for Todd Akin to quit his campaign for the Senate. And they had this little exchange.<\/p>\n KRISTOL: No. No. Are you kidding? All the idiotic comments of various Democratic congressmen and senators dogging Barack Obama. Some Republicans try to get them to dog him. But voters aren\u2019t idiots. Voters know that Todd Akin isn\u2019t Mitt Romney. Voters know that Mitt Romney has never said anything like that. Voters know that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have distanced themselves from it and denounced what Todd Akin said. So I think there\u2019s no chance that it will have any effect on the presidential race. It may cost Republicans a Senate seat in Missouri, and that would be unfortunate if you\u2019re a Republican.<\/p>\n RUSH: I\u2019m on the air three hours a day, 15 hours a week. We are not on a super-secret frequency. You don\u2019t need a secret decoder ring to listen to this program to hear what I say. It is amazing to me the number of people in the media who comment on what I say who have never heard me. They get it from somewhere else. I never said that Akin would dog Romney. I never said that. I don\u2019t know where Gerri Willis got it. Just like this guy at The Daily Beast is writing that Romney waited to hear from me before telling Akin to drop out. No, no. He doesn\u2019t mean waiting for me to call Romney. He means Romney waited to hear what I said. I didn\u2019t issue a demand that Akin drop out. I set up some circumstances. I let him know what I thought the right thing to do, but I started the program out yesterday by saying it\u2019s not my job to come here and tell people what to do with their careers, and I don\u2019t join the crowd on these things. The conventional wisdom forms, and I run the other way. <\/p>\n It is amazing the things that I say on this show that you in the audience never hear. I didn\u2019t issue a formal fatwa. Folks, if I had demanded Akin drop out, he\u2019d be gone. If I had demanded that Akin quit the campaign, he\u2019d be gone. I didn\u2019t do it and I didn\u2019t say that whatever Akin says is gonna dog Romney. Now, Kristol doesn\u2019t know it. He\u2019s just gotta respond to the question. Sarah Palin, by the way, is out positing the idea of a third party. She was on with Greta last night on the Fox News Channel, and Greta said, “I think it\u2019s only fair to take a few seconds and to gloat a little bit. You chose the candidate that the Republican Party did not choose in Missouri, Sarah Steelman. Now all the leaders in the country, Republican leaders, are trying to get Akin to go, so I think they probably love who you endorsed.”<\/p>\n RUSH: That\u2019s quite interesting. Throw out a possible third-party candidacy for Sarah Steelman or anybody else in Missouri. We are now at August 22nd. I don\u2019t know what filing dates are or any of that, but I do know there isn\u2019t a whole lot of time here. I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m sensing, and this is not the first time, and I\u2019m looking at the call board up here, and, folks, there are lot of people who think that Todd Akin\u2019s being done dirty. A lot of people think Todd Akin is being mistreated, and a lot of people have decided they want to stand by him and that everybody else should, too. So a third party candidate. That would split the — I think that would handle it, or hand it to McCaskill. I think she can still lose, big. <\/p>\n McCaskill is unpopular on her own in Missouri. She\u2019s unpopular even if she were to be unopposed. I won\u2019t go so far as to say that unopposed would beat McCaskill, but it\u2019d be close. (laughing) She\u2019s not popular. I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: CNN last night, Wolf Blitzer, you might have heard that Todd Akin “defied” me. Well, let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Wolf Blitzer\u2019s Situation Room. 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<\/a>RUSH: Okay. That\u2019s enough. We\u2019ve made the point. That went on for hours, for four hours, Wolf Blitzer highlighting George Bush\u2019s poll plunge. And just as yesterday, hours and hours of Todd Akin defying Rush Limbaugh. Now let\u2019s move over to Good Morning America today. On Good Morning America on ABC, George Stephanopoulos was interviewing Todd Akin. He said, “The calls for you to go home from Mitt Romney, Republican senators, Rush Limbaugh. That\u2019s not the liberal media, Mr. Akin.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>RUSH: Yeah. He defied Rush Limbaugh. How dare he! He defied Romney, defied Republican senators, defied Rush Limbaugh. Todd Akin. (interruption) I didn\u2019t. That\u2019s the thing. I never did order him to step down. In fact, Snerdley (you people don\u2019t know this) all day yesterday was imploring me to tell the guy to go. You remember how I started the program<\/a>. I mentioned to you that I\u2019m uncomfortable telling the guy to go.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Willis.jpg\"\/)
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