{"id":28284,"date":"2008-02-04T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:20:09","slug":"huckabee_spreads_conspiracy_theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/02\/04\/huckabee_spreads_conspiracy_theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee Spreads Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: This is Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we move on to Governor Huckabee now. He held a press conference, unidentified reporter said, &#8216;Governor Huckabee, why are these conservative leaders going to Governor Romney\u2019s camp and not Senator McCain\u2019s?\u2019<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">\n<p>HUCKABEE: Some suggest that the fact that Bain Capital owns a major stake in Clear Channel and is on Sean\u2019s network, that maybe there\u2019s a correlation. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">\n<p>RUSH: Whew. Now, I happen to know something about this. This is just embarrassing. (laughing) It\u2019s shocking. There\u2019s so much ignorance, or if he knows that he\u2019s not telling the truth here, it\u2019s bold. But he was asked by an unidentified reporter why conservative leaders are going to Romney and not Senator McCain.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">\n<p>HUCKABEE: Some suggest that the fact that Bain Capital owns a major stake in Clear Channel and is on Sean\u2019s network, that maybe there\u2019s a correlation. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Bain Capital is the group, the financial group partially cofounded by Mitt Romney. He has had to divest himself from Bain Capital. Bain Capital does not own a major stake in Clear Channel, not yet. Bain Capital and Thomas Lee Partners have entered into a deal to purchase Clear Channel and take it private, but it hasn\u2019t been approved. It requires a bunch of approval. It hasn\u2019t been done. And furthermore, Sean Hannity is not a contractual partner with Clear Channel anyway. Clear Channel, some of their stations carry Sean\u2019s show. There\u2019s nothing accurate about this. This is a left-wing conspiracy. Huckabee has picked this up from a left-wing &#8212; if you go to the right left-wing kook websites, they\u2019re trying to trash Romney by saying he\u2019s secretly buying Clear Channel, and Clear Channel is the partner of Rush Limbaugh, and that means that there\u2019s an unholy alliance between Romney and Rush Limbaugh. Well, Romney\u2019s not with Bain Capital, Bain Capital does not own Clear Channel yet, has nothing to say about how Clear Channel is running itself, and Hannity is nowhere to be found in the equation in any which way, matter, or form, other than his show is carried on some Clear Channel radio stations. (interruption) It\u2019s totally believable, Snerdley. What do you mean, unbelievable? It\u2019s totally believable. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">\n<p>This is what\u2019s bugging me. We have candidates on our side who are adopting liberalism; they\u2019re adopting liberal conspiracy theories and spreading them around as Republican candidates. They\u2019re adopting liberal ideas and saying, &#8216;Hey, all the great ideas the Democrats are polling greater.\u2019 This is what\u2019s so irritating to me. And then with all of that &#8212; don\u2019t forget, Huckabee was David Brooks\u2019 guy when he was winning out of Iowa, and Bill Kristol\u2019s guy, and now all of a sudden they\u2019re for McCain. But people on our side are adopting all of this, &#8216;Pay no attention to it, Rush, ignore it. It\u2019s irrelevant. We gotta win. We gotta win.\u2019 It\u2019s not irrelevant when we have our candidates spreading liberal conspiracy theories which have no basis in fact whatsoever, zilch, zero, nada. And then, other candidates are out there espousing Democrat ideas and liberal ideas because they\u2019re polling better. We\u2019re told to shut up and get back on the reservation and understand what\u2019s necessary here. CNN\u2019s American Morning. Cohost John Roberts interviewing Governor Huckabee. Roberts says, &#8216;You have conservatives like Rush Limbaugh saying things like, &#8216;If Mike Huckabee becomes the nominee, he\u2019ll destroy the Republican Party.\u2019 How do you explain that disconnect?\u2019<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">\n<p>HUCKABEE: A lot of the Wall Street Republicans who don\u2019t really like the Wal-Mart Republicans, and that\u2019s who I represent. I represent rank-and-file people that aren\u2019t the powerful. They may not be the swells that go to the nice cocktail parties, but there are a whole lot of people in this party that if they get abandoned and they get left out, it\u2019s going to be real hard for Republicans to win this fall. And I think people ought to be thinking very seriously about dumping a lot of the folks that gave the Republicans their victories, that people who hammer in the yard signs, the people who go out there and work for the candidates. They may not write the biggest checks, but they have in many ways the biggest role to play because they\u2019re the foot soldiers in this whole process.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">\n<p>RUSH: All right, here comes the class envy and the populism again, and Governor Huckabee has it 180 degrees out of phase. It is those very people he\u2019s talking about who are being told by the powers that be, call them the Wall Street crowd or whatever, we don\u2019t want you in our party anymore. You embarrass us, and we don\u2019t want you there. That\u2019s what they\u2019re saying of the social conservatives: We don\u2019t want you there, we\u2019re embarrassed to have you here. The idea that Huckabee represents them is what\u2019s crazy. He\u2019s not getting enough of a percentage here to propel himself to victory. By the way, a lot of people are saying, &#8216;Mike, get out of the race. You have no chance of winning and all you\u2019re doing is splitting up the vote.\u2019 Huckabee came back and said, &#8216;I think Mitt should get out of the race.\u2019 (laughing) &#8216;I think Romney should get out of the race.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we move on to Governor Huckabee now. He held a press conference, unidentified reporter said, &#8216;Governor Huckabee, why are these conservative leaders going to Governor Romney\u2019s camp and not Senator McCain\u2019s?\u2019 HUCKABEE: Some suggest that the fact that Bain Capital owns a major stake in Clear Channel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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>Huckabee Spreads Conspiracy Theory - 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:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/02\/04\/huckabee_spreads_conspiracy_theory\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Huckabee Spreads Conspiracy Theory - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: This is Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we move on to Governor Huckabee now. 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