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\nSTEPHANOPOULOS: Should voters consider marital fidelity when making their choices for president?<\/p>\n
RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start with some of the debate sound bites. I don\u2019t know how many of you saw it. Snerdley didn\u2019t see it. Did you watch it, Dawn? Watched half of it? The people I talked to who did thought it was one of the best, that everybody in it did well, on balance. What, you disagree with that, Snerdley? Oh. He\u2019s upset. Of course you would miss the best one. A lot of people, I haven\u2019t heard anybody tell me they thought it was bad. But here\u2019s a question from Stephanopoulos. This is interesting. This is quick, goes by in six seconds here.<\/p>\n
\nSTEPHANOPOULOS: Should voters consider marital fidelity when making their choices for president?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right, now, here\u2019s the guy who worked the bimbo eruptions war room for Bill Clinton. Here\u2019s a guy who worked the bimbo eruptions war room for Clinton, with James Carville, asking this question. And, you know, our guys will gladly go to a debate moderated by Stephanopoulos or Diane Sawyer — oh, Diane Sawyer, I did listen to some… ah, the questions, the tone of voice. Oh, my goodness, her questions went twice as long as some answers while she\u2019s lecturing the candidates on sticking to the time limit. These guys, they don\u2019t want to go to Trump\u2019s debate, but they\u2019ll let Stephanopoulos ask them this stupid question about fidelity from the guy who covered \u2019em all up for Clinton. I mean let\u2019s go back. This is from the film The War Room and this is Stephanopoulos talking about talking somebody out of making an allegation of infidelity against Clinton.<\/p>\n
STEPHANOPOULOS: Think of yourself. I guarantee you that if you do this you\u2019ll never work in Democratic politics again, nobody will believe you, and people will think you\u2019re scummy. The alternative is you don\u2019t do it. It causes you some temporary pain with people who tomorrow aren\u2019t gonna matter, and you have a campaign that understands that in a difficult time, you did something right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s Stephanopoulos from The War Room, the movie made about how he and Carville fended all this stuff off, and he\u2019s talking to a potential bimbo eruption and he\u2019s threatening, “You don\u2019t do it, you don\u2019t do it.” And now he gets to turn around, he gets to ask our guys whether it ought to matter. No, Clinton told the girl, “Put some ice on it.” Stephanopoulos didn\u2019t do that. Here\u2019s Newt on the infidelity question. Stephanopoulos said, “Speaker Gingrich, what do voters need to know about this issue, infidelity, from your perspective.”<\/p>\n
GINGRICH: I think it\u2019s a real issue. I think people have to look at the person to whom they\u2019re gonna loan the presidency, and they have the right to ask every single question. They have to have a feeling that this is a person that they can trust with the level of power we give to the presidency. I said up front openly, I\u2019ve made mistakes at times, I\u2019ve had to go to God for forgiveness, I\u2019ve had to seek reconciliation, but I\u2019m also a 68-year-old grandfather and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I\u2019m a person they can trust.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right, that\u2019s the answer. Not much you can do with that question, I mean it is what it is. I don\u2019t have any experience at it, so I don\u2019t know how I\u2019d answer it. But the people I talked to thought everybody in this debate handled it well. Here\u2019s the bet business. Rick Perry says, “I read your first book, and it said in there that your mandate in Massachusetts should be the model for the country, and I know it came out of the reprint of the book. It\u2019s not in the reprint of the book, Mitt. You know I\u2019m just saying, you were for individual mandates, my friend.”<\/p>\n
ROMNEY: You know what, you\u2019ve raised that before, Rick, and you\u2019re simply wrong.<\/p>\n
PERRY: It was true then. It is true now.<\/p>\n
ROMNEY: Rick, I\u2019ll tell you what. Ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ten thousand dollar bet. Rick, you\u2019re just wrong, I never came out for the individual mandate, $10,000. Now, what Romney should have remembered is this from Perry on September 12th in Tampa.<\/p>\n
PERRY: Yes, sir. The company was Merck, and it was a $5,000 contribution that I had received from them. I raise about $30 million, and if you\u2019re saying that I can be bought for $5,000, I\u2019m offended.<\/p>\n
BACHMANN: I\u2019m offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn\u2019t have a choice, that\u2019s what I\u2019m offended for.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, so Perry admits he can\u2019t be bought for five grand, Romney shoulda known ten wouldn\u2019t do it. (laughing) I think this bet was hyperbole. I think it was a toss-off, but the media doesn\u2019t. Perry\u2019s reaction, “What, you got ten grand to throw around, that\u2019s not what regular people — Mitt, regular people don\u2019t have $10,000 to throw around,” and the truth is that Mitt Romney does have $10,000 to throw around and not really miss it. That\u2019s why some people, “If you\u2019re gonna bet something that means anything, you know, bet one of your houses.” If you really mean this.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We are at audio sound bite number 14. This is a media montage as soon as the debate was over at ABC analysts were chomping at the bit to talk about Romney\u2019s $10,000 bet.<\/p>\n
JACOB TAPPER: The fact that Romney was trying to wager a, uhh, $10,000 bet in a debate in Iowa, the median income in this country means that $10,000 is roughly three months income.<\/p>\n
DAVID MUIR: Not too many caucus-goers here in Iowa would ever place a $10,000 bet, uh, even if it was a sure thing.<\/p>\n
AMY WALTER: It really is Mitt Romney who made most of the headlines, and not all of them were very good. Obviously, the $10,000 bet being the top one here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So the media consensus after the debate was that Romney had committed a tactical error by betting an amount of money that the average Hawkeye Cauci attendee will never see, and certainly would never wager — and, therefore, failed in the important area of relating to the Hawkeye Cauci attendee, and so forth. That was their analysis. Now, here\u2019s Perry on the bet. We\u2019ve got, I guess, Sunday Fox News, and Iowa Public TV\u2019s conversations with the candidates, this a montage of Perry talking about Romney\u2019s wager of ten grand in the debate the night before.<\/p>\n
PERRY: Driving out to the station this morning I\u2019m pretty sure I didn\u2019t drive by a house, uh, that anyone in Iowa, uh, would even think about that a ten thousand-dollar bet was possible. (chuckles) Holy mackerel, that\u2019s just a lot of money for most people and I guess not for Mitt.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not a lot of money for Mitt, “But holy mackerel,” it is a lot of money for Hawkeye Cauci attendees. A lot of money for most people, especially to bet. Now, to say that most people wouldn\u2019t bet it even if it was a sure thing? That\u2019s going a little far. We got gamblers throughout this country. Every time you vote for a Democrat it\u2019s a giant gamble — with your own money. Let\u2019s see here. And we\u2019ve got more. This is Fox & Friends this morning. Romney\u2019s on there. Brian Kilmeade says, “You wanted to bet him ten grand. Do you think you sent the wrong message to the people of Iowa?”<\/p>\n
ROMNEY: This was a — an outrageous number to — to answer an outrageous charge from him, and it\u2019s been proven wrong time and time again. He keeps raising it and I said, “Okay, let\u2019s put something outrageous out there. It\u2019s like saying, ‘Hey, I\u2019ll betcha a million bucks X, Y, or Z.\u2019 Afterwards, my wife came up and said, ‘Mitt, it\u2019s a great debate. You\u2019re great at a lot of things, just not betting.'” (laughs) So we\u2019re over with that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh. Okay. So his wife didn\u2019t like it, no more bets. Not happening anymore. Michelle Obama spends ten grand in tips on hotels in Spain. Michelle Obama probably spends $10,000 a toe getting a pedicure. Look, everybody\u2019s all up in arms here about Romney wagering ten grand. Folks, I literally find all this stuff interesting. Now, Newt\u2019s comment on the Palestinians. Oh-ho-ho! Has that ruffled some feathers? This is Newt, we go to Friday on The Jewish Channel, cable network. Correspondent Steven Weiss interviewed Gingrich and this is what Newt said about the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n
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\nGINGRICH: There was no Palestine that was a state. It was part of Ottoman Empire. And I think that we\u2019ve had an invented Palestinian people who are, in fact, Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, folks! That is lighting dynamite. That\u2019s lighting dynamite and throwing it in a crowd of liberals. Oh, I know it\u2019s a hundred percent true. Golda Meir said the same thing. Numerous statesmen and women have said the same thing, but the conventional wisdom something different now: The Palestinians are a historical people, and they are living in a historical place stolen from them. I mean, that\u2019s it. (interruption) Well, they should go to Jordan, not just Jordan, other places, too. But there\u2019s not a race of people called the Palestinians. There never has been, and Newt\u2019s right about this. But they exist as a foil for the other Arabs. I\u2019ll tell you who sells the Palestinians out all the time is other Arabs. What happens to the Palestinians, basically what they do to themselves, is what the rest of the Arab terrorist world points to and says, “See, that\u2019s why the Jews are so bad! Look what the Jews are doing to our people.” You need that to keep happening if you want to keep blaming it all on the Jews. So Gingrich and Romney spar over his remark. Newt starts off and this is in a debate Saturday. Newt starts off explaining that he was right about it.<\/p>\n
GINGRICH: Was what I said factually correct? Yes. Is it historically true? Yes. Are we in a situation where every day rockets are fired into Israel while the United States, the current administration, tries to pressure the Israelis into a peace process? Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth: These people are terrorists. They teach terrorism in their schools. They have textbooks that say, “If there are 13 Jews and nine Jews are killed, how many Jews are left?” We pay for those textbooks through our aid money. It\u2019s fundamentally time for somebody to have the guts to stand up and say, “Enough lying about the Middle East!”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s one of these dead-on truths again, but the truth\u2019s politically incorrect because it\u2019s so threatening to people, upsets applecarts. Here\u2019s Romney\u2019s reply.<\/p>\n
ROMNEY: Anything I say that can affect a place with rockets going in, with people dying, I don\u2019t do anything that would harm that process; and, therefore, before I made a statement of that nature, I\u2019d get on the phone to my friend Bibi Netanyahu and say, “Would it help if I said this? What would you like me to do? Let\u2019s work together, because we\u2019re partners.” I\u2019m not a bomb thrower, rhetorically or literally.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, so Romney, instead of saying that, what I\u2019d do is I\u2019d call Bibi. I\u2019d call my buddy Bibi! (They got in an argument over who knows Bibi better.) I\u2019d call my buddy Bibi and say, “Look, I\u2019m thinking about saying this. Do you think I should say it? You know what? I won\u2019t say it. I want to do whatever I can. We need to work together.” Okay, so Newt, Newt then replied, after Romney said he\u2019s “not a bomb thrower, literally or rhetorically” and said he would call his buddy Bibi Netanyahu and say, “Let\u2019s work together. I want to tell the truth about the Palestinians, but I won\u2019t if you don\u2019t let me,” here\u2019s what Newt said.<\/p>\n
GINGRICH: I think sometimes it is helpful to have a president of the United States with the courage to tell the truth, just as it was Ronald Reagan who went around his entire national security apparatus to call the Soviet Union an evil empire and who overruled his entire State Department in order to say, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and reframed the world. I\u2019m a Reaganite. I\u2019m proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell you the truth even if it\u2019s at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.<\/p>\n
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\nRUSH: “Confusion with the timid,” and Newt\u2019s a Reaganite. Should I remind \u2019em, Mr. Snerdley? Should I remind \u2019em? When the chorus began, “The era of Reagan is over,” Newt was right in there with it. Just saying, just saying. But you can\u2019t deny these answers, statements in this debate are grand slam home runs. He didn\u2019t say he called Bibi for permission. “Let\u2019s talk about it, let\u2019s work together, let\u2019s figure out what\u2019s going on here.” Yeah, I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s absurd about this. We\u2019re supposed to be upset here at something Newt Gingrich says is gonna whip up the Palestinians? They\u2019re already whipped up! Nothing Newt says is gonna make terrorists even more terroristic. That\u2019s what\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n
“You\u2019re going to really whip them up! We\u2019re trying to have peace with these people! How dare you tell the truth about them!” Yeah, Newt\u2019s gonna anger them. He\u2019s right: You can\u2019t tell the truth too many times in our culture today.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Newt Gingrich has responded to a candidate pledge circulated by an Iowa social conservative group, the Family Leader, and Newt essentially has pledged not to cheat on his latest wife. He hasn\u2019t signed it yet, but in a long written statement responding to it, he said “I pledge to uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my spouse and respect for the marital bonds of others.” So Newt\u2019s gonna sign the “I Won\u2019t Cheat” pledge. I pledge to uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my latest spouse. (interruption) No, he didn\u2019t put a time frame on it. He just said he\u2019s gonna do it. Well, not do it in this case, pledge not to cheat. I thought you did that in your wedding vows, but what do I know, I\u2019ve only done it three times myself. Vows. Vows. Not the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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