{"id":5153,"date":"2015-10-14T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-14T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T16:26:28","slug":"mrs_clinton_unchallenged_isn_t_a_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/10\/14\/mrs_clinton_unchallenged_isn_t_a_debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Clinton Unchallenged Isn\u2019t a Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/68229\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  For 28 years, actually longer than that, that\u2019s how long I\u2019ve been doing the radio show.  For 28 or 30 years I\u2019ve been watching the junk and the garbage that was on TV last night.  And for 28 or 30 years, I still can\u2019t believe that 40% of the country applauds it, supports it, buys into it.  Especially the way it was presented last night. <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>Now, does anybody want to dispute with me that Hillary Clinton is gonna be the nominee?  I mean, I\u2019ve been telling you all along don\u2019t get all jazzed up about Bernie Sanders. Martin O\u2019Malley, the only chance the guy had last night is if he took off his shirt. And since he didn\u2019t do that, the guy\u2019s a joke. Look, let me take that back.  He\u2019s a lightweight.  He\u2019s not in the upper tier.  And when you\u2019re not in the upper tier of the <\/line><BR\/>Democrat Party, you are almost invisible.  Jim Webb?  Totally, 100 percent out of place on that stage last night. <\/line><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112161\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Faux-Dem-Debate-b2.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Bernie Sanders, if anybody has any doubt, they\u2019ve already gotten to Bernie Sanders. I guarantee you they have gotten to Bernie Sanders and he is there to get Hillary Clinton nominated. It was made abundantly clear last night that the Bernie Sanders campaign, whatever it was or whatever it is going to remain going forward, is nothing more than a show campaign designed to make it look like Hillary is overcoming something, so that when she gets the nomination it does not appear to be a coronation, like she has won some sort of a tough battle.  And Lincoln Chafee, folks, you know, I really thought I was looking at characters in a bad sitcom last night. <\/line><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112158\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chafee.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Greetings.  Welcome.  Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone.  800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>So what did we see last night?  We saw socialism preferred over capitalism.  Now, that isn\u2019t new except that they admitted it last night.  It\u2019s always been the case with the modern era of the Democrat Party that they are socialists, but they\u2019ve always tried to back away. Even Hillary tried to distance herself from that. (imitating Hillary) &#8220;Well, no, my job as president will be to rein in capitalism.&#8221;  Hello, socialism.  We were also treated to, and did you see the applause this guy got? Bernie Sanders is out there talking about climate change, the number one threat, the number one enemy, the biggest challenge we\u2019ve got, and if we don\u2019t deal with it in like 200 years, the planet is going to be uninhabitable.  The planet, and, by the way, not 200 years, but your children and grandchildren may not have a planet to inhabit.  And this stuff is being applauded. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re still fighting the Iraq war in the Democrat Party.  They\u2019re acting like the last seven years have not happened.  They are campaigning as though George W. Bush is still president, like we\u2019re still in Iraq.  All of this talk about how bad things are and how much they need to improve and how these are the people to do it ignores the fact that things are bad because they are running the show and have been for seven years.  I was amazed at how cavalierly they approached that.  The last seven years have not had Republican fingerprints on hardly anything by design.  The Republican Party has morphed into invisibility for all intents and purposes because they\u2019re still afraid of upsetting the independents.  Do you know that that\u2019s still the establishment view, the reason why the Republicans should not fight back, is that it will upset the independents that we need to win the presidency? <\/p>\n<p>You know what\u2019s gonna happen even if we do win the presidency, we win it with an establishment candidate, then they\u2019re gonna say, &#8220;Well, we gotta be very careful about advancing our agenda, \u2019cause if we advance our agenda we\u2019re gonna tick off the independents who might abandon us in 2020.&#8221;  We are handcuffing ourselves from doing anything with the establishment way of looking things.  I\u2019m sorry for my scattershot thoughts here but it\u2019s just stream of consciousness.  But really, I was taken aback by all the references to the Iraq war, as though it\u2019s still going on, and all of the horrible economic things and the lack of health care.<\/p>\n<p>Did you hear that last night?  If you listen to these people last night there\u2019s no health care. We still don\u2019t have health care. We don\u2019t have health insurance. We don\u2019t have anything for the poor, and last night the Democrats demanded health care and health insurance free for illegal immigrants, and then they demanded free college tuition that the rich are gonna pay for because the rich aren\u2019t paying enough now.  I heard it all.  You\u2019ve heard it all.  There was not a single shred of anything new from these people last night. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the Drive-Bys are all excited, folks, they\u2019re orgasmic over Hillary\u2019s performance.  But Hillary did not win a debate last night.  That was not a debate and we really don\u2019t know how Hillary\u2019s gonna do in a debate, although we can take existing performances to date.  For example, let me just ask you, what you\u2019ve seen of Jeb Bush so far versus what you saw with Hillary last night, what\u2019s the outcome?  Yeah, sad to say, isn\u2019t it?  Sad to say that the Hillary last night would probably triumph over the Jeb Bush that we have seen in the debates so far.  And then you can throw in other Republican candidates in there and play the same game. <\/p>\n<p>We heard that Obama\u2019s been great.  Oh, yes, Obama\u2019s been great but we still need to fix everything.  But he\u2019s been great.  Everybody has been very loyal to Obama, and everybody\u2019s gonna maintain what Obama\u2019s done, we\u2019re gonna make it even better. No, they didn\u2019t say we\u2019re gonna make it even better.  They said we\u2019re gonna fix it.  They didn\u2019t even acknowledge that things are good now.  I don\u2019t care, folks.  And I know the Democrat voters are not gonna look at it this way, but they threw Obama overboard last night as far as I\u2019m concerned.  But it doesn\u2019t matter because the Democrat voters watching that thing last night &#8212; and there were more of them than anybody predicted.  I mean, their audience did not get close to a Fox News debate audience, Republican audience, but they got a bigger audience last night than they\u2019ve ever had at CNN for a debate. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5169\"><img id=\"eZObject_112156\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/HillarySpotlight.jpg\"\/><\/a>We won\u2019t have the full Nielsen ratings representation \u2019til later.  Of course, Les Moonves at CBS says that ratings don\u2019t matter anymore.  What does that tell you about Colbert\u2019s new show?  Hee-hee-hee.  Sorry, folks, I still have the ravages of this virus, whatever it is, coursing through my body.  By the way, I thought Anderson Cooper was stellar last night.  I do.  And I know, Snerdley, that you disagree with me.  I think Anderson Cooper, he came out of the box and he was trying.  They wouldn\u2019t answer any of his questions.  They showed how it\u2019s done.  I mean, he was trying to get them to react to things they had said previously.  He tried to get Hillary on flip-flopping.  She wouldn\u2019t go there.  He tried to get the others on things they\u2019ve said that have changed their minds about or things they\u2019ve said that are really outrageous and over the top. <\/p>\n<p>He tried.  He kept going back to these people.  &#8220;I\u2019m sorry, you didn\u2019t answer my question. The question is&#8230;&#8221; and they kept avoiding it.  I mean, they put on a clinic on how to avoid answering these questions.  The Republicans, of course, are obsessed with answering the questions specifically \u2019cause they think they have to, in order to show the independents that they\u2019re nice people and that they\u2019re not tricksters and they\u2019re not afraid. <\/p>\n<p>But the Democrats can play whatever games of avoidance they want. But Anderson Cooper? I\u2019m gonna tell you: I thought he was good last night.  I thought he was frustrated at times. But overall, the moderators last night &#8212; the interrogators and so forth &#8212; were not a factor.  I take that back.  Look, they didn\u2019t ask specifically about Hillary\u2019s problems.  They didn\u2019t really get into Benghazi or really get into her e-mails.  In fact there was, I think, a conspiracy of sorts to just get rid of the e-mail subject altogether. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112159\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-and-Bernie-debate.jpg\"\/><BR\/>And when that happened, when Bernie Sanders led that movement, that\u2019s when I realized his candidacy is faux. F-A-U-X.  He\u2019s up there to get her nominated.  There\u2019s no way this guy is gonna get the nomination.  He\u2019s out there&#8230; If I listen to these people last night, here\u2019s a summary of what we\u2019re gonna get these people win the White House: &#8220;Higher taxes, open borders. No limits. Bring anybody in that you want to bring in or who wants to come in.  We\u2019re gonna have an even bigger government. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Free college for everybody because 50 years ago all you needed to succeed in America was a high school diploma, but today a four-year college degree is about the same value in the job market as a high school diploma was 50 years ago.  So we\u2019ve got free college for anybody and everybody wants to go.  The rich are gonna pay for it!  We\u2019ll have a much bigger welfare state.&#8221;  Bernie Sanders is up there talking about, have you seen Denmark? We gotta see what Denmark\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n<p>Bernie doesn\u2019t know that Denmark has reduced the size of its welfare state significantly.  Denmark long ago&#8230; They\u2019re only six million people anyway, so you can\u2019t compare a population of six million people to one 300-plus million.  But Denmark realized they had overextended on their welfare state, and they\u2019re in the process of dialing it back and rolling it back.  And Denmark, by the way, is telling these immigrants from Syria and these refugees, &#8220;Nope, not here. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112218\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/492530246_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>&#8220;Go to Germany.  Angela Merkel wants you; we don\u2019t.  We don\u2019t have any room for you.&#8221; So Bernie\u2019s living in like a time warp where Denmark was something that it isn\u2019t anymore.  Socialized medicine? I still can\u2019t believe they are talking about health care as though nothing\u2019s been done on it.  We\u2019ve got Obamacare.  We have the law that everybody has to have insurance now.  Their problem with it is that it\u2019s gotten so much more expensive than it was and that it isn\u2019t free, so they can\u2019t come out and blame Obama. But indirectly they did by demanding and continuing to call for unilateral socialized medicine.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>I mean, that\u2019s a huge&#8230; This is Obama\u2019s signature issue, the biggest accomplishment of his presidency, and these people are out there ripping it to shreds as though it doesn\u2019t exist.  And of course it was being applauded by the Star Wars cantina scene that was the audience at the Wynn Hotel.  And, of course, the piece de resistance: There will be no guns.  There will be no oil, and there will be no banks.  I mean, that pretty much sums it up.  That was the Democrat debate last night. <\/p>\n<p>Higher taxes, borders are wide open &#8212; anybody who wants in, come on in &#8212; the government\u2019s gonna get bigger. Want to go to college? It\u2019s free! It\u2019s not gonna cost you anything.  And also, in addition to your free college tuition, we\u2019re going to lower your student loan interest rate.  Wait a minute.  If college is gonna be free, why is there a student loan interest rate?  By the way, who is running the student loan program now?  That\u2019s right.  Barack Hussein O took it over, took it back from the banks under the theory that the banks were ripping everybody off.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112155\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushSocialismFails.jpg\"\/><BR\/>So now Obama\u2019s ripping everybody off.  The welfare state\u2019s gonna expand to include illegals who are gonna be welcomed into the country.  We\u2019re gonna fund welfare by nobody having to pay anything for either health treatment or coverage or insurance, and we\u2019re gonna close down all the banks. We\u2019re gonna get rid of everything that runs on oil, and we\u2019re gonna shut down the oil wells, and we\u2019re gonna get rid of guns.  There you have it.  And it\u2019s wildly applauded.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>They had to take commercial breaks to get the dandruff off Bernie Sanders\u2019 suit.  He should have worn a seersucker suit out there. But, you know, in the commercial breaks they had to take him out, and every time they came back there was less dandruff on Bernie\u2019s jacket.  Hey, I\u2019m watching on 4K.  I know that they are not transmitting in 4K but I have gazoodle amounts of pixels out there and I see things on my giant, big screen, projector TV. <\/p>\n<p>The last commercial break Hillary almost didn\u2019t make it back.  She went to potty.  And we know this because when she got back she acknowledged that it takes her a long time, quote\/unquote.  &#8220;Takes me a little longer.&#8221;  Did you know that Bernie Sanders honeymooned in the Soviet Union?  I was rolling on the floor.  I mean, that\u2019s part&#8230; Anderson Cooper, one of his opening questions was, &#8220;Okay, you went down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess you proposed when you went down to immediate the Sandinistas, the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and you honeymooned Soviet Union?&#8221;  Nobody goes to the Soviet on purpose, certainly not for a vacation or honeymoon, but Bernie Sanders did! I didn\u2019t know that.  And I\u2019m just rolling on the floor when I heard that.  I had not paid attention to Martin O\u2019Malley before.  I knew he was the mayor of Baltimore and the governor of Maryland, but man, I had much higher expectations of the guy.  The guy got no gravitas whatsoever. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112219\" class=\"alignleft\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bernie-huh_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>That\u2019s why I say, since he didn\u2019t take his shirt off like Putin, there\u2019s no &#8220;there&#8221; there.  Student body president, maybe principal-type personality or what have you. I don\u2019t know. It was fascinating to me to listen to these people talk about this country as though they have not been in charge of it the past seven years.  And did you know only one of them would actually say that all lives matter?  And that was Webb. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>Only one of them would say that.  You know John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) met the Vietcong in Paris during his honeymoon.  (interruption) Not with Teresa.  Before he&#8230; (interruption) No, no, his first wife.  He\u2019s honeymooning in Paris, and he finds out the peace talks were there. In fact, he probably went to Paris because the peace talks were there. He took time out to go meet the Vietcong.  What is it with these people? <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I got a note from someone surprised that the other Democrats on the stage didn\u2019t go after Hillary on the e-mail business.  Folks, that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m talking about.  Hillary got a pardon for the e-mail crimes by the debaters last night \u2019cause they know they can\u2019t win.  Everybody up there, from Bernie Sanders to Jim Webb to Lincoln Chafee to&#8230; Who am I leaving out?  Oh, whoever they had. They know they can\u2019t win.  If Biden doesn\u2019t get in, Hillary wins this. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112157\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/BidenDebate2012.jpg\"\/><BR\/>The Drive-Bys are spending the morning telling Biden, &#8220;Don\u2019t bother! Hillary hit a grand slam last night. You\u2019re not needed. You don\u2019t have a prayer.&#8221;  That\u2019s the message from the Drive-Bys to Biden.  But these dwarfs on the stage last night have to preserve their worthless careers as nobody Democrats.  They\u2019re not gonna go after Hillary on this e-mail thing, because not a single one of them knows they can win.  They\u2019re all placeholders in this thing.  Even Martin O\u2019Malley. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what capacity he has to fool himself, but it was clear that last night was not a debate, that none of those candidates was gonna go after Hillary, and the media was not gonna make that happen. The media was not gonna treat these people as Republicans and try to create controversy or fights between them.  So, you know, you shouldn\u2019t look at this thing last night as a standard, ordinary debate where every candidate up there is trying to win the thing.  Every other Democrat and Hillary is trying to preserve their status as Approved Democrat Worthy of Remaining in Office in some capacity and in power at whatever level.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, Hillary Clinton? For crying out loud, what are we&#8230;? This is a woman who has more baggage than a Kardashian on an extended European vacation.  And to defeat her, you cannot give her a pass on anything.  You have to go after everything she has done.  And you cannot let her get away with evading everything like she did last night.  You have to know her record cold, and you have to be relentless in attacking it.  That\u2019s the Republican objective when they get to that point.  These people on the stage last night were no way gonna do that.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Did you know Hillary Clinton is a woman?  I know that in some people\u2019s minds the jury is still out, but she admitted it last night.  How many times now has she told us she is a woman?  I don\u2019t know about you, but I kind of get the idea. I got it. She\u2019s told us enough that she\u2019s a woman.  Why does she have to remind everybody of that every five minutes? Is there some doubt out there? <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112164\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/HillaryHelpMe.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Can we not tell she\u2019s a woman by looking at her?  No, no.  Seriously.  She can\u2019t let five minutes go by last night without reminding everybody that she is a woman, and all of that is predicated on she\u2019s a victim, and being a woman makes her an outsider.  And I\u2019ll tell you why she brings it up.  She brings it up \u2019cause that\u2019s about her only accomplishment.  Now, here\u2019s one thing that I\u2019ll tell you I learned last night.  I don\u2019t want to put my words in your mouth.  You may disagree, but feel free to say so.  But Hillary came out last night, and she was not robotic. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how they did it, but they pulled it off.  When Hillary Clinton is unchallenged, and when she knows that she\u2019s not going to be challenged &#8212; and she knew that last night. She knew that Dana Bash wasn\u2019t gonna come after her, and she knew that Anderson Cooper really wasn\u2019t, although I don\u2019t want to take anything away from Anderson Cooper.  I thought he was pretty good last night.  But at the end of the day, any Democrat candidate knows that nobody in the Drive-By Media is gonna come after the Clintons.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re royalty. <\/p>\n<p>The Drive-By Media salivate over the chance to be close to the Clintons.  They want to be in the Clinton orb.  So they\u2019re not gonna approach Hillary in any sort of confrontational way, and she knows that.  When she has the&#8230; I guess it\u2019s true of anybody.  When you\u2019re in a circumstance like this &#8212; either public speaking or doing a speech or presentation or you\u2019re on a roundtable or even in a debate &#8212; when you know that nobody\u2019s gonna come after you, you can be supremely confident. You can be extremely relaxed, and you can even shed some of your self-consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re able to do that, you\u2019re going to have a good night.  So we know she\u2019s a very good debater when unchallenged. But we will never know (at least in this primary) how effective she is as a debater until they participates in a real debate.  Now, she has done that against Barack Hussein O.  Does anybody remember? Go back now to 2008 to this, and maybe even into late 2007. Does anybody remember any of the Hillary and Barack Obama debates?  And if you do, do any of you remember Hillary Clinton, the obvious runaway winner? <\/p>\n<p>I doubt that you do. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112165\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/HillaryServerSHORT.jpg\"\/><BR\/>What happened last night, when you strip everything away, is Hillary Clinton was applauded and complimented for running an illegal e-mail server exposing national secrets to hackers.  Now, that doesn\u2019t happen to most people in a debate who have done what Hillary has done.  Most people would not be applauded for things like that.  Mitt Romney would not be, for example.  Nor any Republican that you can name.  But Hillary last night on the stage was applauded, she was complimented, and she was exonerated for not only the e-mails, but for her role in Benghazi. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>And by the time they had finished discussing Benghazi, it was only an issue because these mean-spirited, extremist Republicans are trying to come after her; there\u2019s nothing to it.  So anybody can be a good debater when circumstances like that exist.  Anybody can &#8220;win.&#8221; Anybody can appear to be in total command and control when you know, as Hillary did, that every vulnerability she had was going to be either ignored or praised.  You allow Hillary Clinton to get away with various improprieties as secretary of state in a debate. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what future jobseekers do.  That\u2019s what all these other Democrats did. They let her get away with everything.  Bernie Sanders effectively wiped the e-mail scandal away, telling me he\u2019s not serious. He knows he\u2019s not gonna win, and he wants to stay in the good graces of Mrs. Clinton and the Democrat Party.  You have to relentlessly attack every issue because Hillary is going to avoid it. She is going to deal with it like the Clintons always do.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/s\/90050\/hillary-clinton-won-wont-always-be-this-way\">Ron Fournier has a piece today that we all could have written back in the nineties<\/a> describing the Clinton technique for escaping circumstances like this. <\/p>\n<p>His piece today says, &#8220;Yeah, she got away with it last night, but she\u2019s not gonna be able to get away with it once the Republicans are on the stage,&#8221; and we hope that\u2019s true.  But don\u2019t doubt me when I tell you the establishment Republicans are still obsessed with not upsetting the independents and the moderates.  And they really believe that criticizing Obama, opposing Obama and the Democrats is a way to&#8230; I\u2019m not making it up.  It\u2019s become a cliche, but they actually still do believe it.  The evidence was all over Twitter last night. <\/p>\n<p>Hillary said she wasn\u2019t there last night to talk about her e-mails. She was there to talk about what the American people want from the next president.  Does that sound familiar?  &#8220;I\u2019m not here to talk about my e-mails.  I\u2019m here to talk about the future of America for everyone, particularly the forgotten.&#8221; (Bill Clinton) &#8220;I\u2019m gonna say this one more time: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss. Lewinsky.  Not a single time.  I never asked anybody to lie!  Now, I need to get back to work for the American people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does that sound familiar, the technique? When you are allowed&#8230; The big winner of this debate last night was Santa Claus.  When you are allowed to promise to buy votes without any effective opposition response, when you are allowed to attack Republicans without any effective response, when you are allowed to flip-flop on votes without being hammered on the flops, then you can be a great debater.  And this is why the Drive-Bys are claiming that she\u2019s a great debater.  They think she tackled this stuff head-on. <\/p>\n<p>She was met with these allegations.  She had attacks. She just swatted \u2019em away like a bunch of irritating flies.  Except that\u2019s not what happened.  She didn\u2019t face one challenge.  She didn\u2019t face anything remotely serious.  So all of you people in the Drive-Bys clapping your hands and saying, &#8220;Wow, what a great performance! Man, Hillary\u2019s back!&#8221; That was not a debate performance last night.  That was an enablement, if you will. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_112220\" class=\"alignleft\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/DemDunces_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Like, I\u2019m a very good golfer when they give me 25 strokes.  I can play with anybody if they give me 25 strokes, and I can even say after that round, &#8220;Hey, I broke 80,&#8221; but I don\u2019t admit to anybody they gave me 25 shots.  So you gotta be very&#8230; And look at another thing: CNN\u2019s audience numbers. The preliminary ratings for the audience for the debate last night were about half the size of the Republican debates, on both CNN and Fox.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Half the size! The media is out there talking about, &#8220;Why, this is huge!&#8221; They\u2019re so excited at getting an audience half the size of Republican debates.  So the Democrats get half the audience of the Republicans and it\u2019s a triumph for the Democrat Party?  Half the audience, half the interest, half the tune-in factor, and it\u2019s a triumph for the Democrat Party?  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here Jack in Grand Rapids, Michigan, great to have you on the program, Jack.  You\u2019re up first.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Hey.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I just gotta say after watching the debate last night, where is the outrage in America?  Where is the dumbfoundness of America?  This debate last night, this show last night, I was dumbfounded by the lack of substance in what these people were saying.  And yet today Fox News, CNN, all of them, &#8220;Oh, it was a good debate. Oh, she did a good job. She didn\u2019t hurt herself.&#8221;  I am outraged as an American as to everything that has gone on in the last six, eight months, year, in the Middle East, everywhere else, our economy, and this is what we\u2019re fed from the Democrats?  I\u2019m dumbfounded. I\u2019m outraged. I cannot believe that they weren\u2019t even ushered off the stage for just lack of substance.  I\u2019m pissed.  I just can\u2019t believe that the American people are gonna watch this pabulum.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I know.  I hear you.  Forty percent of the American people watching that last night, Jack, and they\u2019re applauding it.  I know.  It\u2019s depressing, isn\u2019t it, Jack?  I know.  Like every day for 28 years, Jack.  How else do you conclude that half this country\u2019s a bunch of ignoramuses? Well, I don\u2019t, but a lot of people do.  But Jack, everybody hears you. It is a giant mystery.  How are these people created?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: For 28 years, actually longer than that, that\u2019s how long I\u2019ve been doing the radio show. For 28 or 30 years I\u2019ve been watching the junk and the garbage that was on TV last night. 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