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RUSH: It\u2019s Open Line Friday, and I am your host, the award-winning Rush Limbaugh, all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-everything Maha Rushie. We are here on the day after the first Republican presidential debate last night on the Fox News Channel from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, and we go to Rocko up in Westchester County to kick it off on the phones today. Hi, Rocko, great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, thank you for taking my call. I tuned in to the debate and I had to check the channel because I thought I was watching MSNBC. The moderators methodically torpedo each candidate, with Donald Trump being the biggest target. Scott Walker worked miracles in Wisconsin but they dug up some statistic that he hadn\u2019t reached the economic growth he promised. Jeb Bush sat on a board of a Bloomberg organization that donated to Planned Parenthood. Jeb didn\u2019t even know it, but Fox News did. And the worst was Megyn Kelly, who you just referenced, who thinks she\u2019s all that and just too cute, asked that ridiculous name-calling question and referenced the nonexistent War on Women. I have lost all respect for Fox News.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you know, you\u2019re not the first. (laughing) I\u2019ve heard this stuff from the beginning last night. And it is frustrating. I don\u2019t know about you, Rocko, but we\u2019re in the middle of seven years of an all-out — you talk about war, we got a war on the way this country was founded being conducted right now by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party. And these guys on that stage have not done one thing, they have not contributed one iota to the mess in this country, and they have to justify themselves? <\/line><\/p>\n

We never, ever are treated to the same kind of demands made on Democrat candidates. But look, Rocko, here\u2019s the thing. Everybody should have known this was gonna happen. This is presidential politics, and Republican candidates are where media people score their points. It\u2019s where they build their careers. It\u2019s where they establish their credentials. And that\u2019s why I say, a lot of \u2019em, Trump, he was genuinely surprised by that question, you could tell. But as I say, you\u2019re not alone in your reaction. MSNBC —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know how he could have turned the tables on that question. I know how he should have reacted.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay, go for it. I mean, yeah, what should he have said?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He should have said, “Well, Megyn, I didn\u2019t realize there was a War on Women.” First of all, initially dispelling the made-up War on Women. That\u2019s the first thing he should have done. And then he should have went on to say, “But I\u2019ll give you the benefit of the doubt that there is this alleged War on Women. Don\u2019t you think that it would be based on something more substantive than name-calling?”<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here\u2019s the thing about that. This is one of the reasons — and I don\u2019t mean to be making this personal, folks, but it\u2019s the way I share with you my examples and how I\u2019ve learned things. And this is one of the reasons I don\u2019t like TV. I used to do a TV show for four years, and every day after the TV show, I heard what I should have said. And I got fed up with it. I do a 30-minute TV show that I thought rocked, that I thought was a grand-slam home run and I\u2019m getting calls and e-mails, “You know what you should have said when you played that Clinton soundbite?” <\/p>\n

Believe me, when you\u2019re up there and the lights are on and it\u2019s the first question and you\u2019re the front-runner, I\u2019m telling you, you don\u2019t have 35 minutes to think of the best response or an overnight to do it. So I thought his recovery was fairly quick when he segued back into a problem in the country being political correctness. I thought that was a pretty good recovery all in all. But, Rocko, I\u2019m not yelling at you, don\u2019t misunderstand here. I\u2019m just sharing personal experiences. <\/p>\n

I know what it\u2019s like to be told how you could have said something. It never happens on the radio. You know what? That\u2019s the point. I\u2019ll finish every radio show, I have yet to have — now, I know it will start tonight. I have yet to have an e-mail say, “You know what you should have said in that monologue this afternoon or whatever,” it never happens. But on television, finally I figured out, you know what? I got more comments on the ties that I was wearing and on the video. I said, you know what? I\u2019m wasting brilliance here. Nobody\u2019s catching it. Because the picture is overpowering everything that\u2019s said. And I am a verbal guy. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, that\u2019s why I have not beaten the path back to a TV studio, \u2019cause, A, I don\u2019t collaborate. You have to collaborate to do a TV show. There\u2019s no way to do one without collaborating, and I just don\u2019t do that. I\u2019m not good at it, I never have done it, and it\u2019s too frustrating, just too frustrating. But I appreciate the call, Rocko. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Chris in Pleasanton, California. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. Honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

\"large\"CALLER: I\u2019m watching the debate, and when it\u2019s over, I\u2019m looking at the analysis and I\u2019m listening to Dr. Krauthammer, and he\u2019s giving me an extremely negative review of Trump. He\u2019s almost saying it\u2019s almost like the beginning of the end of Trump with Republican voters. And then I\u2019m looking at the Drudge Report and I\u2019m looking at the polling that\u2019s going on, and here\u2019s Trump, the runaway winner, he\u2019s in the high 40%. Everybody else is down in single digits or just barely above that. And I\u2019m asking myself, how could there be this contrast? <\/line><\/p>\n

How could a professional pundit, a very obviously brilliant guy like Dr. Krauthammer, be getting this so wrong? At least the way it appears right now. And I think what\u2019s happening is they\u2019re underestimating the frustrating and the anger of folks like myself, Republicans, with the Republican Party itself. We feel almost betrayed. You know, we voted in and gave them the power, it\u2019s not being exercised, and that anger is so palpable, I almost don\u2019t view it as two parties anymore, like Republican versus Democrat. I view it like it\u2019s almost like two versions of one party, and the other side is the outsiders that aren\u2019t part of it. And I\u2019m wondering if the analysts like Dr. A Krauthammer are realizing the degree that this is happening. I think it\u2019s throwing off his and others\u2019 analysis.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think they do. I think you\u2019re right about that. They have awareness, but I don\u2019t think they — it\u2019s not just Dr. Krauthammer. Call it the Beltway, the Washington-New York corridor, whatever, the political class, they\u2019re aware, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re aware of how much, but at a certain point of their awareness they begin to have disdain for it, not respect for it. Meaning the anger at the establishment is not something they worry about, not something get a lot of credence or credibility to. <\/p>\n

The comments — I saw Dr. Krauthammer essentially say that this was Trump who finally exposed himself as a buffoon and we\u2019re finished, now he\u2019s taking himself out, this is the first phase of that. They followed that up with a Frank Luntz focus group to make the same point. And I think they don\u2019t understand that a lot of Trump fans are not gonna abandon him because of what happened last night. In fact, I don\u2019t know what percentage, but quite a lot of them are gonna rally around him even more. He\u2019s gonna have to do more than what happened last night to blow this. But the establishment wants him to blow it, so they got a little head start on thinking it\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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