8/16/13, "The Drive-By Media Doesn't Want Me to Moderate a Presidential Debate Because They Want to Pick the Republican Nominee," Rush Limbaugh transcript
They're all out there reacting to this, but they're not reacting to what I expected they would react to, and that is my saying I was too famous to do it....
They're taking it seriously, and they're scared to death, and they're really worried about this -- and I think the reason is, they want to pick our nominee. That's really what it boils down to. The Democrat media wants to pick our nominee like they do every year....
Mike O'Brien, who's the NBC political reporter, said, "If Republicans believe Limbaugh/Hannity/Levin are the best moderators to vet candidates for the general, they deserve their eventual nominee." Now, isn't he basically saying that the Drive-By Media moderators think it's their job to vet the candidates?...It's their job to vet the candidates. They think they're the ones who should pick the nominee.
I don't know whether this O'Brien guy even knows that he's admitting that, but it sounds like that's what he's saying, to me. I mean, look, the reason I think that is 'cause that's what they think. I know that's how they look at it....They want to be the ones to determine who is the Republican Party's nominee. One of the main arguments that we make every four years on this program is about the fact that they do it.
What kind of person do they think I would pick? Well, somebody sent me a transcript of Howard Dean on MSNBC last night. You know, this is....To me professionally, this is kind of interesting. Howard Dean said (summarized), "What are they gonna do, tell everybody that the Republican Party hates gays and hates women and that any woman takes birth control pills is a prostitute? Is that what they're gonna say?"
It indicated to me just how grossly the people on the left misunderstand this program. You know... Let me give you a way of illustrating this, and I'm not gonna mention any names, because I don't want to affect whatever they do next. The entertainment media cannot figure out my comments on Ashton Kutcher and his comments at the Teen Choice Awards. I played those audio sound bites, and I highlighted and praised Kutcher's comment, and they can't believe it.
They think that I hate anything and everybody in Hollywood, and they cannot get their arms around the fact that I actually said something positive about Ashton Kutcher. It doesn't compute with them. Folks, you know this as well as I do because you confront it. The people who do not listen to this program have one of the most distorted views of what it is than anything in our culture.
The people who do not listen to this program but think they know everything that happens here, they couldn't be more wrong, and when they're confronted... I mean, what Ashton Kutcher said about jobs, about work, about opportunity, is something I've been saying for 25 years. Anybody who listens to this program regularly should not have been surprised at all what I said about Ashton Kutcher. But it doesn't computer. They can't figure it out.
They're trying to figure out, "Well, what's the trick?"...
Here you have the most listened to radio talk show in the, and these people, the most strident critics have never listened to it. Howard Dean has no idea what he's talking about when he sits there and said says, "Well, Limbaugh and Hannity and Levin will sit there and make sure the candidate hates women, hates birth control." They have no clue what they're talking about. Maybe it's the opposite. Maybe they do, and they're purposefully distorting it.
I think it's a little bit of both. ...
There are a couple of different entertainment outlets who have written about it, and you can tell when you read it that they're confused, that they don't quite get it. It's the same thing on this moderating the (laughing) Republican debate....
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Well, there you have it. The RNC has approved its resolution to bar CNN and NBC from their presidential primary debates. CNN and NBC are officially banned. The rank and file just passed the resolution." image above from RushLimbaugh.com
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Comment: I've listened to Rush since 1989. He's still a great source of information. Those of us who don't have a political party to represent them can at least hear some of our concerns voiced by Rush. On the other hand, he unfortunately has some loyalty to the establishment and Fox News:
2/20/13, "As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned," Angelo Codevilla, Forbes
"At the outset of 2013 a substantial portion of America finds itself un-represented, while Republican leaders increasingly represent only themselves. By the law of supply and demand, millions of Americans, (arguably a majority) cannot remain without representation. Increasingly the top people in government, corporations, and the media collude and demand submission as did the royal courts of old. This marks these political orphans as a “country class.”"...
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