{"id":366682,"date":"2020-09-30T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=366682"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T19:57:36","slug":"debate-commission-decides-chris-wallace-was-an-insufficient-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/09\/30\/debate-commission-decides-chris-wallace-was-an-insufficient-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate Commission Decides Chris Wallace Was an Insufficient Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Well, well, well, look at this. “Commission to Make Changes in Wake of First Debate<\/a> — The Commission on Presidential Debates says it\u2019s adding new tools to maintain order in the upcoming debates after a chaotic first debate between President Trump and [Plugs] Biden. Trump\u2019s frequent…” This is an AP story, by the way.<\/p>\n

“Trump\u2019s frequent interruptions of the Democrat nominee defined Tuesday night\u2019s debate with Biden frequently unable to complete a sentence.” (chuckling) Ho-ho-ho. Oh, man. Really, AP? “Poor Plugs! I couldn\u2019t even finish a sentence!” Oh, my God. Let me tell you something. He disavowed the Green New Deal. He said, “No, I don\u2019t support the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal is not the plan I have for the environment.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He distanced himself from the Democrat Party and the radical left and Bernie Sanders. He reneged on the deal. He said, “The party is me. Right now, I am the Democrat Party.” You know why he said that? Because, traditionally, the presidential nominee of any party is the leader of the party — and from Plugs\u2019 standpoint, he is.<\/p>\n

But then, after saying he is the Democrat Party, he was asked, “Well, why haven\u2019t you called these mayors in Portland and Seattle and told them to stop this rioting and looting?” Plugs: “I haven\u2019t been elected to anything yet, so I can\u2019t tell these guys what to do.” Really? And he\u2019s not able to finish a sentence, AP? How come I remember all this?<\/p>\n

(sniveling) “That mean Mr. Trump! He\u2019s so mean, not even to let poor Biden finish a sentence! It was so bad that the commission on debates has to “add tools now to maintain order?” AP: “Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News pleaded with Trump several times to allow Biden to speak uninterrupted, to no avail. The commission says it intends to ensure that additional tools to maintain order are in place for the remaining debates.”<\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t know what… You say Plugs wasn\u2019t able to finish. He said, “I\u2019m totally opposed to defunding police.” He disavowed everything that that he promised the Bernie Sanders coalition in order to get the nomination. They do want the Green New Deal, and here\u2019s Biden saying, “No, I don\u2019t support it. It\u2019s not the plan I have for the environment. The party is me!<\/p>\n

“I am the Democrat Party but I haven\u2019t been elected to anything yet so I can\u2019t tell other Democrats what to do.” What else did he say? “I\u2019m totally opposed to defunding the police”? Well, that\u2019s only the number one demand of Black Lives Matter is defunding the police, and here\u2019s Biden saying he\u2019s totally opposed to it? That\u2019s not what he said prior to last night.<\/p>\n

\"\"We\u2019ve got him on record. We\u2019ve got him on tape as supporting defunding the police, and the Democrats have done their best to revise history and to say that he\u2019s not said it, but he has. He said, “The violence should be prosecuted.” Oh, no! Black Lives Matter thinks their people need to be let out of jail, not prosecuted.<\/p>\n

Biden last night was at odds with every person he made a deal with to get the nomination, including Crazy Bernie. He also said (paraphrased), “The fact of the matter is, I beat Bernie Sanders. To hell with Bernie Sanders! To hell with doing what Bernie Sanders wants. The fact that I beat Bernie Sanders.” Uh, Joe, that\u2019s not exactly what happened. At the end of the day, you didn\u2019t beat Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n

They all agreed to let you be the nominee if you would implement Bernie\u2019s agenda, and now you are a trying to renege on it? So the Commission on Presidential Debates says they need to add new tools to maintain order. Does that mean, Mr. Snerdley, that Chris Wallace is an insufficient tool? I mean, if they need to add new tools to maintain order, wow. (interruption)<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not gonna shut off anybody\u2019s mic. If they try that, you\u2019re gonna find out how unnecessary microphones are where Donald Trump\u2019s concerned. If they shut off his microphone, you\u2019re gonna find out how little microphones are needed. By the way, grab sound bite number 25. I\u2019m trying to get to this and I\u2019m going to do it. I\u2019m trying to get it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a sound bite here on the white supremacy, the attempt that was made last night humiliate Trump on supposedly not denouncing white supremacists and so forth. But CNN today went out and they found… Do you remember Carole Simpson? (interruption) She was a journalist, infobabe with ABC — and, oh, we love Carole Simpson on this program.<\/p>\n

We had a great relationship with Carole Simpson. (impression) “Carole Simpson, ABC News, Washington,” to go along with (impression) “Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.” Anyway, Carole Simpson, she moderated a debate. She moderated a debate that Ross Perot was in. So CNN went and found her and they got her, and they said, “If there is another debate, there will be people watching it.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Are there other ways to give one candidate time and make it clearly that if it\u2019s not their time to speak, that the microphone not maybe be on?” So the consensus is that “Trump was so unfair, that Trump wouldn\u2019t let poor Biden finish (sniffle), kept interrupting him.” You notice there is literally no admonishment for Biden calling Trump a racist, for calling him a liar, for all of these personal attacks.<\/p>\n

Trump did not engage in any personal attacks on Biden, folks. Don\u2019t doubt me on this. He did not get personal. Biden did. Yeah, you remember the last time they tried to shut off a microphone? (interruption) Yes, you do. It was the debate between Ronaldus Magnus, and, “I paid for this microphone.” They were mad at Reagan for demanding or taking too much time.<\/p>\n

It was, I guess, a debate against Carter? I thought it was a… Against John Anderson? But regardless, Ronaldus Magnus said, “Mr. Moderator, I paid for this microphone” when they tried to cut it off. So, anyway, here\u2019s Carole Simpson. She\u2019s asked by CNN, “Is there anything we can do? Is there any rein in this out-of-control, bad Mr. Orange Man? Like turn his microphone off?”<\/p>\n

SIMPSON: This mic control, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to work very well. I had similar problems that Chris had last night because I had three candidates — and Ross Perot, the independent candidate, would not stop talking. And I\u2019m getting instructions in my ear. “Do not let him dominate the debate!” So I\u2019m going, “Mr. Perot? Mr. Perot? Please, Mr. Perot. We have to move on,” and of course, the public thought I was being rude to him. The moderator is always criticized, and a lot of my friends who have texted me have criticized Chris. I think he did the best he could (chuckling), shy of climbing the stairs and grabbing them by the neckties.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is my problem. It\u2019s not you people that we have tuned in to watch. People are not tuning in to watch because there are questions that we are waiting to be asked, and we demand that those questions be asked, and we are gonna be really ticked off if you don\u2019t answer. It\u2019s not the way the people watch these debates watch them. You know, people have to know their limitations. And this is one of the biggest problems I\u2019ve got with the entire business of public fame, acclamation, any job that creates fame for people that do it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the easiest thing to have your ego lose total control over. And I have studiously over the course of my career, I have made it a point to not lose control and to not think that I\u2019m bigger than I am, no matter what circumstance that I am in. You know, I\u2019ve been a master of ceremonies at events before, and that\u2019s a certain talent. And it\u2019s not like moderating a debate.<\/p>\n

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But when you\u2019re an emcee, you do have to keep things going. And there is a moment where an emcee makes some remarks that can either be funny or serious or what have you. But you\u2019re still, you\u2019re not the event. You\u2019re not the reason the event is taking place. And if you start acting like you are, then it just isn\u2019t healthy and it isn\u2019t good.<\/p>\n

And I just find so many people in the public eye who have lost perspective, they have lost the ability to see themselves as they are seen by others. The empathy. In fact, the empathy factor is crucial for success in jobs like this. And you have to realize that if you\u2019re not running for office, if you\u2019re not one of the people running for president, then you\u2019re not the reason people are watching. What is so hard to understand about that? But it is.<\/p>\n

Now, this next debate is October the 15th. It\u2019s two weeks. Two weeks and a day. It is down in Miami. And it has an entirely different format. The next debate is a town hall format where members of the audience get to ask questions of the candidates. And we\u2019ve been there, done that. This is where the ponytail guy stood up and asked Clinton, Bush, and Perot, “What are you gonna do to take care of us? We are your children. What are you gonna do?” Remember that? Ponytail guy stood up at a debate somewhere, forget where it was, Washington, Virginia somewhere.<\/p>\n

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But that\u2019s gonna be the next format. That\u2019s a little tougher, because that\u2019s audience members asking, and that\u2019s going to involve the candidates speaking directly to members of the public. And so if Biden is answering a question from, let\u2019s say the ponytail guy II shows up, will Trump be more or less inclined to interrupt Plugs while he\u2019s answering a question from some hapless member of the public? That\u2019s gonna lead to all kinds of other allegations.<\/p>\n

A lot of people are gonna believe that members of the public have been prescreened and they\u2019ve been given the questions that they want asked or that their questions are gonna be preapproved, or what have you. A lot of people are gonna question the legitimacy of that format as well, it\u2019s just the nature of the beast.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Trump could say, “If you people are so concerned about maintaining order at the next debate, how about I send in the National Guard?” I know. I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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