{"id":14853,"date":"2012-08-13T18:34:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:34:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-13T18:34:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:34:24","slug":"media_mantra_a_choice_not_a_referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/13\/media_mantra_a_choice_not_a_referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Mantra: A Choice, Not a Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Candy Crowley from Saturday morning from CNN\u2019s special coverage of Romney\u2019s announcement of Paul Ryan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CROWLEY: Not every Republican has signed on to this kind of&#8230; I mean, they will publicly, but there is some trepidation &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>GLORIA BORGER: They\u2019re afraid!<\/p>\n<p>CROWLEY: &#8212; that this might be &#8212; uh, look&#8230; looks a little bit like some sort of ticket death wish, that, &#8220;Oh, my gosh, do we really want to talk about these things? Is this where we want to go? When the economy\u2019s so bad, we coulda stayed on that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/115841\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. She\u2019s one of the debate moderators. She\u2019s moderating the town hall on October 16th in Hempstead, New York. &#8220;It\u2019s a death wish ticket! It\u2019s a ticket death wish! Oh, my gosh, do we really want to talk about these things?&#8221; See, she thinks that putting Ryan on the ticket takes the economy out of play. I\u2019m sorry, I think it does just the opposite. Somebody is going to need to &#8216;splain to me how putting Paul Ryan on the ticket, or having Romney on the ticket with Ryan, somehow takes the economy out of play.<\/p>\n<p>It moves it front and center, as Romney and Ryan demonstrated throughout their appearances this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have an inane media mantra. We have a montage here from Saturday and Sunday, a bunch of mainstream media people describing the race. And they\u2019re all saying the same thing, by the way. It\u2019s now a &#8220;choice.&#8221; You see, it\u2019s not a referendum. It was gonna be a referendum on Obama. Romney had said that. But now he\u2019s put Paul Ryan on the ticket, and it\u2019s no longer a referendum on Obama, \u2019cause now that Ryan\u2019s on the ticket. It\u2019s now a &#8220;choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here. Listen and see if this makes any sense to you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_65893\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushMediaMontage081412.jpg\"\/><BR\/>MARK MURRAY: They wanted to make this a referendum on Obama; now it\u2019s a choice.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>JOHN KING: Romney has tried to make it a referendum; now you have a choice.<\/p>\n<p>CANDY CROWLEY: What Barack Obama wants to do is make this a the choice. Mitt Romney wanted to make this a referendum.<\/p>\n<p>PERRY BACON: Is was going to be a referendum. (gasp) Now it becomes much more of a choice.<\/p>\n<p>F. CHUCK TODD: This is not a referendum election; this is a choice election.<\/p>\n<p>RICHARD LUI: No longer a referendum on the president. They now had to move into a choice election.<\/p>\n<p>ROGER SIMON: (whispering) It makes the election not a referendum on Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>DAVID KERLEY: This changes the storyline from a &#8220;referendum&#8221; on the president to a &#8220;choice&#8221; election.<\/p>\n<p>GAVIN NEWSOM: We have a choice, and it\u2019s no longer referendum.<\/p>\n<p>RON BROWNSTEIN: &#8230; shift the election more toward the choice and away from the referendum.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Isn\u2019t this amazing how they all get the same fax?  They get the same talking points, every one of these people.  One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten people in our montage.  Remember when Bush put Cheney on the ticket, &#8220;It brings gravitas.&#8221;  Now it\u2019s a choice election, not a referendum election.  What changed?  Somebody smarter than I am is gonna have to explain this to me.  Would somebody explain to me how in the world this all of a sudden did not become a referendum on Obama?  Are they thinking that the previous Romney campaign was just to run out there, be a decent guy, nice guy, and talk about what a reprobate and a louse Obama is, how bad the economy is. But now that we got Ryan on the ticket, well, we\u2019ve put an arch-conservative up there, and now that there\u2019s a conservative on the ticket, oh, no, oh, no, the American people hate conservatives as much as we hate conservatives. And so now this is a choice between Obama and a mainstream racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe conservative who, by the way, wants to cut your Medicare. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how they look at it.  A conservative on the ticket, they hate conservatives, and they think everybody else does as well, that\u2019s the world they live in.  And so since there\u2019s a conservative, I mean he may as well have added Satan, and when you put Satan on the ticket, well, that takes everything about Obama off the ticket.  It now becomes a choice between a Messiah and Satan, not a referendum on Messiah.  That\u2019s how they think.  This is inane.  They\u2019re deluding themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Candy Crowley from Saturday morning from CNN\u2019s special coverage of Romney\u2019s announcement of Paul Ryan&#8230; CROWLEY: Not every Republican has signed on to this kind of&#8230; I mean, they will publicly, but there is some trepidation &#8212; GLORIA BORGER: They\u2019re afraid! CROWLEY: &#8212; that this might be &#8212; uh, look&#8230; looks a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Media Mantra: A Choice, Not a Referendum - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/13\/media_mantra_a_choice_not_a_referendum\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Media Mantra: A Choice, Not a Referendum - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Here\u2019s Candy Crowley from Saturday morning from CNN\u2019s special coverage of Romney\u2019s announcement of Paul Ryan&#8230; CROWLEY: Not every Republican has signed on to this kind of&#8230; I mean, they will publicly, but there is some trepidation &#8212; GLORIA BORGER: They\u2019re afraid! 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