{"id":18104,"date":"2011-09-08T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T18:14:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-09T18:14:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T18:14:36","slug":"gergen_and_friedman_on_perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/09\/08\/gergen_and_friedman_on_perry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gergen and Friedman on Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: David &#8220;Rodham&#8221; Gergen last night on CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper 211. After the debate, Anderson Cooper said, &#8220;What do you think of Rick Perry and this debate, Mr. Gergen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>GERGEN: Intellectually Mitt Romney got the better of him. He was more articulate on many occasions, but Governor Perry brings a muscularity to the debate that I think will appeal to an awful lot of voters. There\u2019s sort of a decisive quality about him that I don\u2019t think you see so much and he doesn\u2019t back down easily. I can certainly understand why he <\/line><img id=\"eZObject_53982\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/gergen-1.jpg\"\/><BR\/>appeals to a lot of voters and why it\u2019s gonna &#8212; it\u2019s gonna be a very, very interesting race. I thought he was calm and confident for a candidate who hasn\u2019t debated in five years.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;Muscular.&#8221; He &#8220;brought some muscularity to the debate.&#8221; Now, what does that mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he\u2019s got onions. It also means that Gergen\u2019s big on muscles. You know, he was a big Hillary fan, but he\u2019s right here. Muscularity, toughness, not backing down, that\u2019s exactly right. Last night on CNN\u2019s Piers Morgan Tonight he spoke with Thomas &#8220;Loopy&#8221; Friedman about Governor Perry and climate change. Piers Morgan said, &#8220;What do you think when you hear the guy who has streaked ahead at the moment in the Republican nomination race just dismissing global warming as politicized nonsense? What do you think of that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FRIEDMAN: What\u2019s really doubly absurd about it, Rick Perry\u2019s state is on fire, okay? Uh, it\u2019s in our experiencing the worst &#8212; tragically, the worst &#8212; wildfires in its history, which fits in exactly with the predictions of climate change that the hots will get hotter, the droughts will get longer, the wets will get wetter, you get these extremes in temperature. It\u2019s actually happening under his nose, climate change, and he\u2019s out denying it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s right. Texas never been hot before, never been dry before, never had fires before. What\u2019s happening in Texas is not&#8230; It may be part of yesterday\u2019s climate change prediction, but it wasn\u2019t part of last year\u2019s, and it wasn\u2019t part of the global warming prediction in 1985. Most of these fires seem to be arson in Texas, but global warming? (laughing) I want to know, Mr. Friedman, what global warming scientist predicted more arson as a result of rising temperatures? Same program, same host, same guest. Next question: &#8220;I think what everybody is crying out for is proper leadership, and this is where I take issue with President Obama, and I\u2019m not even an American,&#8221; which is why CNN hired me, &#8220;but I feel strongly that I want the president to stand up and be the boss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FRIEDMAN: I think a lot of people feel today&#8230; You kind of do a Rorschach test with the American people. You know, hold up a picture of the president and say, &#8220;What comes to mind?&#8221; For a lot of people, it\u2019s just something fuzzy. It\u2019s something not clear. He\u2019s not in focus and he needs to get in focus with what he believes, what he\u2019s really ready to fight for.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thomas &#8220;Loopy&#8221; Friedman, who was part of the media cabal that presented us with this image of Obama as a messiah, is now saying he\u2019s fuzzy, nobody knows who he is. He doesn\u2019t know what he believes, even. Not even Obama knows what he believes! How can anybody else know what he believes when Obama himself doesn\u2019t know what he believes? And yet, and yet whatever he says tonight on jobs is gonna be gospel, and I\u2019m being told here that gonna request $43 million more for wind energy green jobs. 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