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RUSH: Moving on to the debate, just some preliminary comments. As I said, I thought Jim Gilmore did pretty well. I thought Romney looked Reaganesque. He was very articulate and quick. The New York Post is all over poor Rudy today. He did stumble a bit because Chris Matthews kept going back to him over and over and over and over again on abortion, and people are saying that he was flip-flopping in the middle of answers without being aware of it. McCain, to me, didn\u2019t quite measure up. Duncan Hunter I thought was excellent as well. Drudge has got his own poll running, or did have. But regardless, beyond all that, we got all this postdebate analysis going on. I think what really needs happen is an analysis of the moderator of the debate and the panelists and the way the thing was conducted. It was so different from the way they conducted the Democrat press conference. Here the Republicans were, they didn\u2019t run away like the Democrats ran away from Fox, they were there and they took the questions. Presidents can\u2019t be afraid of these people but Democrat presidents apparently can be. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

A lot of the questions that were asked last night, and it stands to reason, like the abortion question that Matthews kept pounding Rudy on. Most questions last night were the product of liberal clich&eacute;s about conservatives, especially this question on abortion. I would venture to say, while it\u2019s crucial, and make no mistake about it, it is not the single issue in this coming election, probably won\u2019t be the single issue as it has been in the past because of the international threats that we face and the wide line of demarcation between the Republicans and the Democrats on how to deal with it. A lot of progress is being made on abortion. Well, it\u2019s trending in the right direction. But I mean, asking these guys which one of you is the next Reagan and all of this, it was just great display of the little universe in which these libs and Drive-By Media people exist, and it was a great display of how they view Republicans. We\u2019ve got a little montage. It doesn\u2019t so much demonstrate that. This is just Chris Matthews, the moderator, constantly interrupting things. You had 60 seconds to answer. There were 30 seconds rebuttals, had ten people up there, and Matthews, he loved to shout ‘time,\u2019 shouting at people. Here\u2019s a montage of Chris Matthews interrupting the debaters last night.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: We\u2019ll be able —<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Time!<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: — to bring our troops home safely. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Time, governor! <\/p>\n

GIULIANI: One of the reasons that crime is still down in New York today. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: That\u2019s the time, mayor. <\/p>\n

TANCREDO: We should cloning people for the purpose of using these kinds of — <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: That\u2019s time, congressman! <\/p>\n

HUNTER: To be used for a nuclear weapon in Iran —<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Thank you, congressman. That\u2019s time. <\/p>\n

GIULIANI: I ran the most conservative government in the last 50 years —<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Time!<\/p>\n

GIULIANI: — reduced crime, reduced welfare, balanced the budget, lowered taxes 23 times. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Mr. Mayor, it\u2019s time!<\/p>\n

TACREDO: It\u2019s not necessarily whether you\u2019re a centrist or not. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: It\u2019s time! <\/p>\n

ROMNEY: The McCain-Feingold law prevents that from happening. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: It\u2019s time, Governor Tancredo: I think, frankly, I\u2019m the candidate. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: OK. Time! <\/p>\n

McCAIN: I\u2019m proud to work with the president of the United States —<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Time!<\/p>\n

HUNTER: — manufacturing sector for these energy systems. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Congressman, that\u2019s time. <\/p>\n

ROMNEY: more marriages before babies. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Time! That\u2019s time!<\/p>\n

BROWNBACK: It\u2019s going to be key for a future president. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: That\u2019s the time. <\/p>\n

TANCREDO: Benjamin Franklin said in 1727 — 1787 that he wanted to… <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Governor? Out of time! Governor, Thompson, then. <\/p>\n

TANCREDO: Could I please —<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Governor Thompson, please? <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: That\u2019s the time!<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. None of those are repeated, by the way. All of those are stand alone instances from the debate last night. Here\u2019s Barb in Davidsonburg, Michigan, as we start with you. Nice to have you on the program. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush, thanks for having me. Thanks for coming yesterday. I saw the show and it was just, as your e-mailer said before, better than I even expected.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s what we try to do here is meet and surpass the expectations of the audience. I\u2019m glad you had a good time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you always do and I just want to say I started my day yesterday drinking out of my Rush mug from my friend Heidi in Cleveland, who\u2019s a fellow Rush fan, and we just had a great time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have a picture that we\u2019re going to post. A young boy was holding up a sign, ‘My mom and dad raised 12 Rush babies.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, that\u2019s sweet. Well, we have three Rush babies for you, and hoping they\u2019ll get some good Rush grandbabies for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no question that will happen. We\u2019re not far from Rush grandbabies now. That will happen before every American agrees with me, which means I will still be here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, thanks, Barb. I appreciate that. You all in the audience were fabulous last night, too. Could not have been better. Take care. Here\u2019s Tina in Fowlerville, Michigan. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, good talking to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sorry we missed you last night in Novi.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there might be a next time, in ten years or so.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I hope so. My 15-year-old daughter says, ‘Mom, can we get tickets?\u2019 I knew you were sold out, but a couple of Rush babies here, proud of them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Terrific.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, a point I wanted to make, Rush, is I\u2019m extremely irritated that the presidential debate, Republican presidential debate was on MSNBC, and of all people, Chris Matthews, I mean come on!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well? What do you do expect? I mean, if MSNBC\u2019s going to do it, they had Brian Williams do the Democrat debate. Matthews ran that debate last night like he hosts Hardball.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I could barely bring myself to turn on my TV. I thought my TV might blow up having MSNBC on my TV. It should have been on Fox. It should have been with a Fox reporter or host. I couldn\u2019t believe it. Chris Matthews of all people is disgusting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s interesting you say that, because we ran the poll not along ago on my website on who people think should quit at MSNBC and allow a person of color, a minority to take their primetime slot. Matthews won that over Keith Olberdork by 49 to 47. But now after the debate I\u2019ve gotten some e-mail from people who want to change their vote to Matthews to give him an even bigger majority. You have to understand, this is what they want. These are the Republicans, and it was a Republican audience, and they want you to be irritated. I\u2019m sure that some of them would like to also have your respect for having done a great job, but at the same time, the media\u2019s chosen sides here just like most other people in society have. The big difference is, for example, you people know where I come from. I make no bones about it. I don\u2019t hide it. I\u2019m very proud of what I believe. <\/p>\n

The Drive-Bys are trying to say it wasn\u2019t biased, ‘We\u2019re objective, why, we\u2019re just reporting the news. We have no interest in the outcomes,\u2019 and nobody believes that anymore. They\u2019ve become so oriented toward the left agenda. What\u2019s insulting is that they deny it, and they spread things that are not true in the process of furthering the agenda, and it\u2019s quite irritating. Republicans are not going to run away from MSNBC, they\u2019re not going to run away from debates on CNN. That\u2019s not what Republicans do. The Democrats are running away from debates on Fox. Here\u2019s another bite. Bush-bashing questions were typical of Drive-By drivel last night. This is a montage of the moderators, Jim VandeHei of The Politico, John Harris from The Politico, they were cosponsors, and Chris Matthews posing questions to the candidates.<\/p>\n

MATHEWS: Do you think Scooter Libby should be pardoned?<\/p>\n

HARRIS: Would you have fired Don Rumsfeld before last November?<\/p>\n

VANDEHEI: What do you dislike most about America?<\/p>\n

MATHEWS: Is Karl Rove your friend? Would you employ Karl Rove?<\/p>\n

HARRIS: Jack Abramoff, Mark Foley, Duke Cunningham in prison for bribes, FBI raids of two Republican members of Congress, what\u2019s with your party and all this corruption?<\/p>\n

MATHEWS: Let me ask you a question which has grabbed a lot of Americans personally, the Terri Schiavo case.<\/p>\n

VANDEHEI: Did you watch Algore\u2019s environmental documentary, An Inconvenient Truth?<\/p>\n

MATHEWS: Seriously, would it be good for America to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House? <\/p>\n

RUSH: What can you say about this? This doesn\u2019t need any analysis. You are informed and sophisticated enough to understand this. But, folks, it is what it is. If you\u2019re going to run for president as a Republican today, you have to know that this is what you\u2019re going to get. You have to be able to deal with it and you have to be able to knock it out of the park. I would have loved to have been on that stage and gotten every one of these questions. They\u2019re parody questions, but what they indicate is the mind-set, the Republicans are a bunch of pretenders, the Republicans are jokes. Remember, to the left, there is no debate. Republicans, conservatives, in the minds of the left, have to spend their entire existence justifying that existence. Every one of these questions goes to a liberal world view. You think Scooter Libby should be pardoned? Would you have fired Rumsfeld last November? What do you dislike most about America? That question came from somebody in general public, I think from Walnut Creek, California, that submitted the question via ThePolitico.com website. And, of course, the root of that question is it, ‘Well, conservatives hate America, conservatives hate, conservatives are racists and sexists and bigots and homophobes and all this, and they just hate people.\u2019 That is a question that if you asked a liberal, and a liberal were honest to answer, he couldn\u2019t come up with a list of ten because that\u2019s too few items. What do you dislike most about America? Where is the dislike for America? Romney had a great answer. In fact, here\u2019s Romney\u2019s answer. Let\u2019s go to sound bite 12. Romney\u2019s answer to the question, ‘What do you do dislike most about America?\u2019<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: Gosh. I love America. I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m going to be at a loss for words because America for me is not just our rolling mountains and hills and streams and great cities, it\u2019s the American people. And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people. Hard working, innovative, risk taking, God loving, family oriented American people. It\u2019s that optimism we thank Ronald Reagan for — thank you, Mrs. Reagan, for opening up this place in his memory for us. It is that optimism about this great people that makes this the greatest nation on earth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, that\u2019s a good answer. But the question, what do you dislike most about America, the seething rage and hatred, we all know where it resides politically in this country, and it ain\u2019t on our side of the aisle. But some of these other questions, ‘Is Karl Rove your friend?\u2019 See, Rove\u2019s a criminal, just hasn\u2019t been caught yet. ‘Would you hire Karl Rove?\u2019 They might not have mentioned Bush\u2019s name a lot, but they were doing everything they could to indict these guys by getting them to answer questions in a way that made them look just like Bush if they say, ‘Sure, love Karl Rove, I\u2019d hire him in a minute. If I could have him run my campaign now, I would.\u2019 ‘Jake Abramoff, Mark Foley, Duke Cunningham in prison for bribes, FBI raids of two Republican members of Congress. What\u2019s with your party and corruption?\u2019 What about Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana)? What about Senator Feinstein? You know, I\u2019ll bet you that these wizards on this panel do not even know that there is a brewing scandal with Senator Feinstein and the fact that when she ran that subcommittee on military affairs, she was funneling money to companies owned by her husband. I\u2019ll bet they don\u2019t even know it, I\u2019ll bet they don\u2019t know it because the news is from a weekly paper out I think in Marin County. Might be San Francisco. It\u2019s been picked up in the Washington Times. These people wouldn\u2019t deign to read the Washington Times, and it hasn\u2019t been anywhere. <\/p>\n

What is this culture of corruption? That is a Democrat Party talking point from the last election, the culture of corruption. These questions are embarrassing. These people are probably very proud of them. The Terri Schiavo case? Abortion? Matthews could not let go of abortion. He thinks that the next election is going to be based totally on abortion. You know what was funny? When I was flying up to Detroit yesterday, I was channel surfing around. I checked the movie channels first, and there was nothing on the movie channels I wanted to see, so I started surfing the news channels. MSNBC was talking about the debate. It had a countdown clock. It was a little after 11 o\u2019clock, count down, ‘Eight hours, 54 minutes to –‘ like it was a space launch or something. They were all analyzing this thing before it happened, and in the process, Chris Matthews had a little roundtable and he couldn\u2019t figure out why Hillary Clinton\u2019s poll numbers are falling because everybody thought that after that debate she kicked rear end. She was called Reaganesque by Pat Buchanan. She was the only one to answer the question about if we were attacked, what will you do? She said retaliate, and the others chimed in later. <\/p>\n

So in their world view, that should have just launched Hillary into the seventies. She\u2019s plummeting. It was funny to watch these people in their roundtable trying to figure it out. I\u2019m shouting at the screen, ‘You people ever heard of the fact that she and her party want to lose in Iraq, and they want the US military to lose? Do you people have any idea how the American people outside of your little bubble actually see what she says and does and what her party stands for?\u2019 But you look at these questions, and not only are they clich&eacute; oriented, they are arrogant and condescending, and they are oriented in the belief that Republicans and conservatives are just sort of freak oddballs that have to justify their existence. This is the kind of thing, folks, that eventually is going to come back and harm all of these people, because, contrary to them thinking they\u2019re doing fabulous jobs out there — What about this question, ‘Would it be good for America to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House?\u2019 I don\u2019t know if he was trying to be funny with that or that\u2019s just a setup question. Still it was on his mind to ask. These kinds of questions do not get asked of Democrats. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, sound bites ten, 11, and 13. Let\u2019s listen to a little bit of McCain. People asking, ‘What\u2019s with McCain\u2019s arms walking all over the place?\u2019 I think he Red Bulled up last night. I think he had some caffeine. Question came from Jim VandeHei at The Politico.com. ‘Senator McCain, Sarah from Arlington, Virginia –‘ now, I don\u2019t care where they get their questions from. I know The Politico was a cosponsor of this, but I did a riff last night in Michigan on polling and I tested that riff on this program the day before. Why in the world does all this polling matter? It\u2019s not just news making anymore, and it\u2019s not just advancing an agenda. It\u2019s about control, folks. The liberals are trying to control you. Let me tell you how successfully they are doing so. <\/p>\n

Let me ask every one of you personally, wherever you happen to be, especially if it\u2019s in public or if you\u2019re at a party with some friends and you want to say something, do you stop before you say something because you\u2019re worried about who it might offend? Does that remind you of anything? That\u2019s sort of like the way it was in the Soviet Union. People were afraid to say anything. They thought the state might be listening. Well, in this country it\u2019s not the state that\u2019s listening yet. It is a bunch of liberal activist groups who are waiting to pounce on anybody who says anything they don\u2019t like and say, ‘That offended me,\u2019 and you shouldn\u2019t be allowed to say it and then all hell breaks loose. Now, it may not happen to you in that fashion in a big way, but people try to shut you up. ‘I can\u2019t believe you said that.\u2019 The point is we\u2019re all getting gun-shy. Everybody is afraid to really open up. We stop, ‘Oh, can I say this?\u2019 <\/p>\n

So that\u2019s what polling does. We got 56% of the American people think X. So what? It certainly is nothing more than news if it\u2019s even news, but when did anybody pronounce the American public, in a poll, the final authority on anything? Nobody has, except the Drive-By Media. So last night, the cosponsors of this debate were The Politico. And of course they want to plug their website, and they want to get users and hits and all that, so users were allowed to ask questions, and that\u2019s where the ‘what do you dislike most about America\u2019 question came from. Then there\u2019s this one. ‘Sarah from Arlington, Virginia, Senator McCain, wants to know if you would be comfortable with Tom Tancredo as head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.\u2019 McCain says, in a word, no, and then added this.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: On the subject of Osama bin Laden, he\u2019s responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans. He is now orchestrating other attacks on the United States of America. We will do whatever is necessary. We will track him down. We will capture, we will bring him to justice, and I\u2019ll follow him to the gates of hell.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now that answer that McCain gave has been all over the place, ‘Gates to hell? Whoa, what was wrong with Senator McCain?\u2019 You can hear there that he\u2019s speaking far more rapid fire than he usually does. He usually speaks very slowly, in fact, and deliberately. So that\u2019s why, Red Bull there at the podium where he was. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have some more debate audio sound bites. This is the answer that Rudy gave to the incessant never ending questions posed by Chris Matthews on Roe vs. Wade that he is getting clobbered for in certain circles. The question to Rudy from Chris Matthews, ‘Would the day that Roe v. Wade is repealed be a good day for America?\u2019 <\/p>\n

GIULIANI: It would be okay.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Okay to repeal?<\/p>\n

GIULIANI: It would be okay to repeal. Or it would be okay also if a strict constructionist judge viewed it as precedent, and I think a judge has to make that decision.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Would it be okay if they didn\u2019t repeal it? <\/p>\n

GIULIANI: I think the court has to make that decision, and then the country can deal with it. We\u2019re a federalist system of government, and states can make their own decisions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re being clobbered for this because he seemed to say, ‘Yeah get rid of it, but if a judge doesn\u2019t get rid of it, then no big deal. Let the states deal with it.\u2019 He stumbled on that a little bit. The Drive-Bys are all over it. This abortion question, as I said earlier, the whole question stems from their clich&eacute;d stereotypical beliefs. They still think that an abortion is something 80% of the American people are in favor of. They\u2019re really living in such a dream world, and the purpose here was to trip Rudy up. He should have known that this was coming. I\u2019m sure he did. His answer, actually, also kind of makes a point. How many of the American people, including whatever the small audience watching this debate last night, knows what the concept of federalism is? How many of you know what the concept of federalism is? You know it, Mr. Snerdley? Well enough to explain it to me? You do? Well, give it to me in two sentences. What is federalism? You tell me. I\u2019ll see if you\u2019re right. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Well, you\u2019re pretty close. ‘I\u2019m dead on.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The term federalism, I just wonder how many people understand it. His falling back on it, ‘We\u2019re a federalist system of government, the states can make their own decisions.\u2019 Well, no, not in a federalist system, the states don\u2019t always get to make their own decisions. I may not have heard this, but if Roe v. Wade is not repealed and the court makes that decision — or no, I guess he\u2019s talking about if it is repealed, then the states can — and that\u2019s the way it ought to happen, by the way. It ought to be something decided democratically by the people, and it never has been. Let\u2019s see, now we have Matthews, this exchange with the candidates. We had a montage earlier of some of the silly questions that were asked, and this is a montage of the silly question about would it be good for America to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House.<\/p>\n

MATHEWS: Do you think Scooter Libby should be pardoned?<\/p>\n

HARRIS: Would you have fired Don Rumsfeld before last November?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Can\u2019t be my fault, but I\u2019ll take the hit. I want to go to 13 and 14. I\u2019m sure it was another computer glitch. I knew this was going to happen. I knew this was going to happen. Right as I\u2019m starting the segment, I get this message that people that I have no desire to talk to have been wanting — and I\u2019ve been telling people, you tell them I\u2019ve got no desire to talk to them. I\u2019m reining it in. Are we ready to go on sound bites 13 and 14? All right.<\/p>\n

MATHEWS: Seriously, would it good for America to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House? (Laughter.)<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: You have got to be kidding.<\/p>\n

MATHEWS: No, I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

TANCREDO: I know that he is presently measuring the drapes over in the Oval Office, but no, it\u2019s a lousy idea.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Post-debate, Matthews was stunned. He was amazed that the Clinton question was laughed at. Here he is talking with Jill Zuckman of the Chicago Tribune.<\/p>\n

ZUCKMAN: When he mentioned Bill Clinton, it was like they all giggled. You know, they all thought a bunch of things and then nobody wanted to say anything, and they turned it —<\/p>\n

MATHEWS: A lot of cheap jokes they didn\u2019t want to make.<\/p>\n

ZUCKMAN: It was like pushing a button with — <\/p>\n

MATHEWS: It\u2019s such a cultural question because if you said Bill Clinton to say an African-American crowd, it would be devotional, the response. If you said it to a group of sophisticated big city liberals, it would be, ‘Look what he\u2019s doing for world AIDS.\u2019 It\u2019s a different cultural reaction. They think it\u2019s comical, the name Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They think it\u2019s comical. Another great display, great illusion here of the two worlds. God for black people. Actually that\u2019s Barack. Barack is godlike for the godless. What he meant was that Clinton was the first black president, and there\u2019s reverence for Clinton out there. These Republicans all laughed at the notion, and for Matthews it doesn\u2019t compute. Just doesn\u2019t compute. Folks, there is such a huge disconnect. This is why when you watch these people, you have got to understand where they are coming from. It\u2019s not enough just to note their bias and so forth, because it informs virtually report and story that they do. The best advice I could give you is just ignore it, don\u2019t watch the stuff anymore. It\u2019s not what you think it is. It\u2019s not news, it\u2019s agenda, it\u2019s pure agenda. You\u2019re just going to have your blood pressure skyrocket if you keep watching this stuff.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Paul in Redmond, Washington, welcome to the EIB Network. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Appreciate you taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey just a few quick comments I wanted to make on the debate last night. The first thought, you know, I don\u2019t totally agree with any one of the candidates, but I was really proud of my party during that debate and afterwards. These guys, they spoke straight, and they spoke without hesitation. They answered the questions directly and clearly. They said what they thought. They told you what they\u2019d do. You know, such an utter contrast with the Democratic debate —<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is an excellent point that you\u2019re making.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, it was so clear, for people who can\u2019t observe that, then you kind of wonder about their discernment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this thing was more notable to me for the idiocy of the questions. They were pointless. They were agenda oriented questions. I know these guys know what they\u2019re getting into with this. But it was so unprofessional. It was a real come-down. And, you know, you are prisoner to the questions. You have to answer the ones you get, and they were stupid, but it what it was and I think that reduces the whole substantive image of the event. I appreciate the call out there, Paul. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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