{"id":4368,"date":"2016-01-26T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-14T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:17:06","slug":"was_the_cnn_town_hall_rigged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/01\/26\/was_the_cnn_town_hall_rigged\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the CNN Town Hall Rigged?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: A question I got today, “Rush, Hillary Clinton\u2019s in trouble, Rush. I mean, she\u2019s under 50% in the polls. She\u2019s coughing phlegm up all the time now. She\u2019s got health problems relating to her concussion. And now this coughing spasm due to the thyroid, I mean, she just looks horrible out there. She has no energy. Some 82-year-old guy, 75, whatever Bernie Sanders is, however old he is, running rings around her. Why aren\u2019t the Democrat establishment guys paranoid like the Republican establishment guys are? Why is this, Rush?”<\/p>\n


\nI mean, these are the kinds of questions that I, your beloved host, get all the time. “Why, Rush? Why is there no panic on the Democrat side? There\u2019s all kinds of panic on the Republican side over Trump. Why is there no panic on the Democrat side?” I think because on the Democrat side the game\u2019s rigged. I\u2019ve thought from day one that Bernie Sanders isn\u2019t gonna win this. I\u2019m using intelligence guided by experience. How many times in the last 27 years — and that\u2019s the length of time I\u2019ve been doing this program. How many times have we thought, have we been told, has it been suggested to us, “We\u2019ve got the Clintons now!” How many times? How many times have we been told, “This is it for Hillary, man; this is it for Bill”? It\u2019s too many to count. And it\u2019s never been right. Now supposedly Hillary\u2019s in deep doo-doo over the e-mails and the server and all of the FBI people investigating her and the data is in, and it\u2019s un-survivable, they say. But yet there she is. She\u2019s still out there coughing up phlegm. She\u2019s still looking like Miss Havisham (well, a chubby Miss Havisham) left at the altar.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s still looking sick, unenergetic.<\/p>\n

Did you watch any of that thing last night? See, that\u2019s another thing. I\u2019m fighting depression today, folks, \u2019cause I had to watch it. I had to watch this last night, and I endeavored to, and we\u2019ve got lots of sound bites on it, and I think we found evidence that the whole thing was set up. We found evidence at least that the questions were prepared for the people who asked them. In other words, I don\u2019t think any (or very few) of the questions any of those people got were actual questions dreamed up by the people who asked them.<\/p>\n

And the giveaway is one guy asking a question slipped up. Grab it. Audio sound bite number four. Chris Cuomo, who… This was such an odd format last night. It\u2019s a town hall, and these guys go out separately. Bernie Sanders was first with Chris Cuomo, and it was funny as can be. Chris Cuomo, even with Bernie Sanders, was doing everything he could to defend Hillary Clinton. So Crazy Bernie\u2019s out there answering his questions, promising a tax increase, promising free Medicare, just promising everything for everybody.<\/p>\n


\nAnd then after that Martin O\u2019Malley came out. Martin O\u2019Malley was number two, and he\u2019s by himself, and the biggest reaction to Martin O\u2019Malley was when he took off his jacket. I guess they were just waiting for him to take off his shirt. The point is that was it. That was the total level of excitement for O\u2019Malley when he took off his jacket. And Hillary was bringing up the rear. She came out last. And I almost had to turn the mute off because of that cackling laugh.<\/p>\n

For the first 10 minutes that\u2019s all she did whenever anybody said anything (cackling impression), “Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha! Well, y\u2019know… Ha-ha-ha!” It drove me… It drove me absolutely nuts. But I endeavored to sit through it. Now, here is the sound bite. This was at Drake University in Iowa, and the moderator is Chris Cuomo. He introduces a member of the audience named Brett Rosengren and his purpose is to stand up there and ask a question of Mrs. Clinton. Listen carefully…<\/p>\n

CUOMO: Brett Rosengren. He\u2019s from Logan, Iowa, is going to school, works as a supervisor for a janitorial company, says he\u2019s undecided, has a question.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: Great.<\/p>\n

ROSENGREN: Secretary Sand — or Clinton.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n

ROSENGREN: Sorry.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: (cackling) That\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

ROSENGREN: I can see why they gave you this question. I just wanted to know, which of our previous presidents has inspired you most?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, did you hear what this guy did? Did you hear what this guy, Brett Rosengren, asked? “I can see why they gave you this question.” This guy is admitting there… Who knows if he\u2019s even there legitimate? They might have bused this guy in. Who knows? Whole thing could have been totally staged with CNN\u2019s cooperation. But this guy stands up and says, “Secretary Sanders… Oops, oops!” Laughter starts, Mrs. Clinton says, “Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! That\u2019s okay!” And then Rosengren says, “I can see why they gave you this question. I just want to know which of our previous presidents has…?”<\/p>\n

What kinda…? Nobody asks a question like that. No serious voter gives a rat\u2019s rear end a question like that one week away from the Hawkeye Cauci: “Can you tell me which previous president has inspired you the most?” And the guy blows it by saying, “I can see why they gave you this question,” which means he was handed the question. Anyway, I watched this whole thing. We got appropriate audio sound bites coming from it. It\u2019s not that I want to torture you, but we have spent a lot of time talking about the Republican side. And it is interesting as well what\u2019s going on over there on the Democrat side.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Here we go to the Democrat — they called it a town hall last night on CNN. It was moderated by Andrew Cuomo and I think some others, maybe, and they did it one candidate at a time. They started out with crazy Bernie, who promised to raise everybody\u2019s taxes and make Medicare free to everybody. I listen to these guys talk about how they\u2019re gonna raise taxes, I mentioned this once before and I know it\u2019s a rhetorical thing, but there\u2019s a serious point, why even collect taxes? Why even worry about it other than to control people? Because the collection of taxes and raising revenue is irrelevant to the way you spend money.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re spending money we don\u2019t have already, so what is the big deal about raising taxes? Why even worry about the deficit? They don\u2019t make any pretense of worrying about the deficit. We\u2019re $20 trillion in debt. You listen to these people talk, and there\u2019s no end to this. They\u2019re gonna spend it, they\u2019re gonna raise taxes, 94 million Americans not working. They can\u2019t pay any taxes, and people still working don\u2019t earn enough money to pay any significant increases in taxes. And yet here\u2019s crazy Bernie going on and on about it as though we\u2019re never in debt, we have no deficit, and the rich are not paying anything in taxes, and nobody is, and it\u2019s about time we raised everybody\u2019s taxes to a responsible level and then give away more free stuff. Juxtaposed against $20 trillion of national debt, eight trillion of it with Obama, seven trillion, eight trillion of it created in the last seven years.<\/p>\n