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RUSH: Let me get this straight. Mitt Romney wants to go back to the days when the media<\/a> you saw last night was all we had. Those were the good old days, right? <\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends. Great to have you here. Rush Limbaugh and the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB Network, the most listened to radio talk show in the country. Thrill and a delight to have you here. The telephone number if you want to be on the program\u2019s 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Before the debate started we had CNBC on in the house, a bunch of people were watching, and it was inane listening to the CNBC predebate roundtable discuss what was coming. It was literally insane or inane, it was pointless, it was just chatterbox chatter. I hadn\u2019t paid much attention to this debate before last night. I had to be reminded last week this debate was even happening. Frankly, I\u2019m into the World Series \u2019cause my team, the Royals, are in it. This debate was not on my radar until yesterday, actually, so it wasn\u2019t until yesterday that I knew who the moderators of this thing were. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna tell you, folks, when I saw John Harwood\u2019s name on the moderator list, I knew that we were headed for one of the most biased nights that we were going to see, because if there\u2019s anybody openly and willing to act as though he is in the Hillary camp, it is John Harwood, New York Times, former Wall Street Journal, now CNBC. The display that we got last night was a culmination of everything that many of us have been trying to tell the American people the Drive-By Media is: Arrogant, smug. I mean, it goes so far beyond bias. <\/line><\/p>\n

Bias doesn\u2019t even cover what happened last night. That was a kill show last night. That show was designed to kill every one of those candidates. That debate last night was designed to take them all out. That debate last night was to grease the skids for Hillary Clinton. That was the sole purpose of that debate last night. And the smugness and the arrogance and the condescension with which those moderators went about it finally came back and bit them to the point that everybody watching that debate, everybody, even other Drive-By Media types saw what was going on. <\/p>\n

You can count on one hand the number of Drive-By Media types defending what happened last night on CNBC, and one of them doesn\u2019t even really count because his mind was lost long ago, and that\u2019s Chris Matthews. So you can count on four fingers the number of Drive-Bys that are actually defending. Ron Fournier even last night said that what happened, the mainstream media is getting beat up today, and we deserve it, he said. And he\u2019s exactly right. <\/p>\n

I want to take you back, before we get into debate analysis, because I started fuming with that very first question: Please tell us what is your biggest weakness. Right then you knew the table was set, you knew what was coming. And it ticked me off that some of our people even deigned to answer it. The whole premise behind that question is, tell us why you\u2019re not qualified. And if there was a theme to this debate last night from these moderators, it was to expose the fact that these fine people, any one of which would be preferable to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, is not qualified. <\/p>\n

And it bugs me and it has me fuming, this automatic assumption that any Democrat, the architects of the current economic disaster, the people with the only fingerprints on this economic disaster — well, at least for the first five years. The Democrat Party, when you talk about Obamacare, there aren\u2019t any Republican fingerprints. We have 94 million Americans not working. We have half the country making less than $30,000 a year, and these people, these moderators, attempted to say that the people seeking the presidency on that stage last night are not qualified? Coupled with the automatic assumption that Hillary Clinton is qualified, that Barack Obama is qualified, that Joe Biden or whoever else on the Democrat side is, offends me and it has offended me my entire life. But I want to take you back to this very program, all the way back to April 14th<\/a>, where I issued a warning to the RNC and Republican candidates.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: When Good Morning America calls you, understand it\u2019s not Good Morning America, it\u2019s the Hillary Clinton campaign calling you because George Stephanopoulos is at Good Morning America and where he really works is the Hillary campaign, or the Bill Clinton war room. You would no more accept invitation to be interviewed by Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign consultant, so why would you accept an invitation to be interviewed by Hillary\u2019s campaign consultant disguised as an anchor on Good Morning America? And the same thing goes for whoever it is that moderates these debates that are yet to happen.<\/p>\n

If the Republicans fall for this business of letting Clinton campaign operatives moderate their debates we\u2019re told that, “Rush, look, that\u2019s the lay of the land, everybody knows it, and it\u2019s an obstacle the Republicans have, it\u2019s a reality that the Democrats don\u2019t. And everybody knows it, and therefore the Republicans have to prove they can overcome this unfairness.” Really? Why is that case? It\u2019s apparently been required of the Republicans for 35 years that they demonstrate they\u2019re willing to deal with this unfairness. It seems like they\u2019ve demonstrated for a number of decades they\u2019re willing to do it. The point is it doesn\u2019t seem to help them much. It remains an obstacle that has to be overcome. I know, it\u2019s a challenging exercise to come up with alternative means here of reaching the American people. But one of the ways, this is a great field of candidacies that the Republicans have who can reach the American people by going over the heads of the media, and they should not be afraid to do so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yet the RNC schedules these debates, and they schedule these debates with the very enemies of the Republicans. We all know, everybody knows, they are the enemy. They\u2019re not just the media. They are the enemy, and yet the scheduling continues. And we all know why. The Republican Party, inside the Beltway, the establishment, whatever you want to call it, thinks they have to bend over backward to prove their fairness, that they are not all of these things they\u2019re alleged to be. <\/line><\/p>\n

So they take every option, every opportunity to try show these people, “No you don\u2019t understand. We\u2019re not racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.” There\u2019s no changing their minds. These moderators last night didn\u2019t care a whit what these candidates think of anything. You could tell that by virtue of the questions. They didn\u2019t have any interest whatsoever in what these candidates thought. The only objective they had was to take them out. From top to bottom, the objective here was to take these candidates out, to impugn them, to discredit them, to destroy them, whatever it took in the eyes of the public to ruin their reputations, to mock them, to mischaracterize them. That was the sole purpose. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just last night where this happens. This happens every day. The media needs to be removed from the equation here. Everybody knows that. But how do you do it? One of the great issues of our time is how to counteract the damage inflicted by a corrupt media which is aligned with the Democrat Party. We have serious issues facing this country, and we do not, in not enough sectors of our party do we acknowledge the full scope of our enemy. <\/p>\n