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And Rick Perry said, “I don\u2019t know who you\u2019re talking about. So I can\u2019t respond unless you give me a name.” And Mike Allen said, “Well, these are members of your staff.” And Perry said, “You got a name?” And Mike Allen, “These are members of your staff who say…” Perry said, “You got a NAME?” There\u2019s a pause and Allen says, “You won\u2019t listen to…?” Perry says, “You got a NAME?” Allen says, “Uh, uh, uh.” And then Perry says, “If you don\u2019t have a name to tell me this individual said this, then I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a corroborating source. You give me a name.” Now, this is not stupid. That\u2019s pretty clever. “Okay, you\u2019re gonna tell me that some unnamed member of my staff is ripping my campaign? Who? You tell me who it is and I\u2019ll give you an answer.” The implication is: “I think you\u2019re making this up. You\u2019re a journalist, and you can run out and you can say that somebody said something.<\/p>\n
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“Well, why should I respond to what the critics say?” Early on I did it because I thought I\u2019d be nice, be fair, and the media will respond in kind. That\u2019s not at all what\u2019s the case. They don\u2019t care. They don\u2019t want to like Republicans or conservatives. It\u2019s all a gotcha game from the moment they get up to the moment they go to bed. It\u2019s all a gotcha and Perry figured this out: “You tell me who it is and I\u2019ll react to it. Without a name, you\u2019re not gonna get a response,” and that\u2019s not somebody stupid. That\u2019s not somebody that\u2019s intimidated by what is happening, here. In fact, it\u2019s actually a sign of somebody that is learning and figuring out how to deal with stuff — and you know me, folks. There nothing wrong with constantly learning. I love it.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m constantly learning. I know many of you think that there\u2019s not much I have left to learn, but that\u2019s not true. (interruption) No, everything is “on the job.” I don\u2019t care who is elected president next time around, but whatever Republican wins the White House, it\u2019s gonna be on-the-job training, but whoever\u2019s gonna do it has never done it before. It\u2019s gonna be on-the-job training. There\u2019s no question. That\u2019s why you go for somebody who\u2019s principled! That\u2019s why you go for somebody… Look at Santorum.<\/a> Everybody says, “Why is Santorum surging in Iowa?” Well, the answer may be found in the fact that the economy<\/a> is not the number one issue. So Santorum is allowed to play to his strengths, and his strengths are values and principles, social issues — the things that the Republican establishment despises. The areas of a campaign that they hate.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s his strength, and he\u2019s staying focused on his principles — and that may explain why he\u2019s doing well. It could well be. Principle will trump inexperience every time it\u2019s tried. But it\u2019s people who are trying to play the game that get caught up in the game and oftentimes make mistakes. It\u2019s the calculators. It\u2019s the people who are insincere, who are not governed by principle. A good analogy is public speaking. If you know what you\u2019re going to talk about, you do not have stage fright. If you\u2019re confident in what you\u2019re going to talk about, you don\u2019t have stage fright. In fact, you can\u2019t wait to get out there and start talking. But if you have any doubt (self- or otherwise), if you\u2019re not confident, if you\u2019re gonna be talking about things you really don\u2019t care about and you\u2019re gonna be acting, well, you\u2019re gonna be nervous.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re gonna try to hide something from a bunch of journalists or other people you\u2019re going to be nervous. That\u2019s why I always say that it\u2019s just safer to stick to your principles, \u2019cause that\u2019s who you are. Stick to your core. But the journalist trick is the thumb suck. In practically every story, it reads: “Some say…” or “Some people say…” and it\u2019s rooted in this notion, “Well, we gotta get both sides.” Okay, so here\u2019s Rick Perry doing XYZ, and, “Some say, Mr. Perry…” “Who says this?” And what he\u2019s saying. “Who? You give me a name and I\u2019ll react to it,” but, “Some say…” it\u2019s taught. Just like lawyers are taught questions in law school once they get into trial, journalists are taught this. They\u2019re taught how to destroy people. They\u2019re taught how to do the personal profile destruction, the personal profile buildup.<\/p>\n They\u2019re taught the suck-up, the thumb suck. They\u2019re taught it all. And none of it is about finding the news! This is no news. In fact, what news has come out of Iowa? The news media is going wall-to-wall out of Iowa. What news has been made in Iowa today? None. Everything\u2019s on the come. It\u2019s all gonna happen tonight. Nobody knows what the news is yet. So what\u2019s the focus? Well, what the “experts” think, but nobody knows.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I mentioned earlier, ladies and gentlemen, Rick Perry and the way he dealt with Mike Allen who came up to him, (paraphrasing) “Hey, some staffers say that you\u2019re not really smart. Some staffers are saying that the campaign is stupid and late,” and so forth, and Perry said, “Well, who? I\u2019m not gonna respond to this \u2019til you tell me who\u2019s saying this.” By the way, Perry is on a full-court press today, yesterday. Perry\u2019s out doing interviews. I saw him on Fox early today and he came across great. Perry has always made me laugh. Rick Perry has always made me smile. I look at Rick Perry speak and I smile, sometimes I laugh. I\u2019ve met Rick Perry a couple times, and I\u2019ve enjoyed it thoroughly both times. I like Rick Perry. I love Santorum. I like Bachmann. I like all these people and I know that any one of \u2019em would be great for this country. <\/p>\n What we\u2019re famous for in the Hawkeye Cauci is surprises. One of the biggest surprises in recent years is Howard Dean. Howard Dean, it was thought going into the Hawkeye Cauci in 2004 that he was gonna clean up in Iowa, and he didn\u2019t. He barely came in third place and it was over, and everybody was shocked. I tell you, everybody could not believe it. The polling data didn\u2019t indicate this. Howard Dean was the guy. And when that happened, the Democrats panicked and they went to Kerry, who served in Vietnam, John Forbes Kerry, the haughty John Kerry. They said, “Well, we gotta have somebody that can win now,” and they did that to themselves. “Okay, we need somebody that can win.” So they chose somebody on the basis of the stupid notion of electability. It\u2019s not a stupid notion, but when that\u2019s the only reason you pick somebody, it\u2019s stupid. And that\u2019s what they did. <\/p>\n Anyway, I\u2019ve got the sound bite now of Rick Perry. This was Sunday in Des Moines, and this is The Politico White House correspondent Mike Allen interviewing Rick Perry. He says to him, “Governor, some of your staffers have told us that you ran this as a gubernatorial campaign for too long, that you didn\u2019t look big enough, you didn\u2019t get big enough. You take some responsibility for that?”<\/p>\n PERRY: (echo) I don\u2019t know who you\u2019re talking to.<\/p>\n ALLEN: Well, these are members —<\/p>\n PERRY: So I can\u2019t respond unless you give me a name.<\/p>\n ALLEN: These are members of your staff —<\/p>\n PERRY: You got a name?<\/p>\n ALLEN: — who say —<\/p>\n PERRY: You got a name?<\/p>\n ALLEN: (1.5 second pause) You won\u2019t listen to…?<\/p>\n PERRY: You got a name?<\/p>\n ALLEN: (1.2 second pause) Uhhhh.<\/p>\n PERRY: If you don\u00c2\u2019t have a name to tell me this individual who said this, then I don\u2019t take that as a corroborated source.<\/p>\n RUSH: And that\u2019s Rick Perry, “You got a name? You got a name?” This is not somebody stupid, folks, doing this. You got a name? In fact, it was Mike Allen, (imitating Allen) “Uh, you\u2019re — you\u2019re — well, you — you — uh — you\u2019re not gonna reply? You\u2019re — you — you\u2019re — you\u2019re not gonna react to that?” “You gotta name?” “But I got a staffer, the staffer said that you\u2019re basically stupid and suck.” “You got a name?” “But you — uh –” It doesn\u2019t sound like somebody stupid to me, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: I mentioned Rick Perry earlier. He\u2019s out doing the media rounds today, and he\u2019s sounding good — and he had a great exchange with Mike Allen of Politico. Everybody that says, “Ah, Perry is a nice guy, but he looks slow, Rush.” I can\u2019t tell you the number of people, wherever I go, whose […]<\/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":"\n