{"id":14243,"date":"2012-10-17T16:34:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-17T16:34:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:34:30","slug":"my_debate_analysis_defies_the_uniformity_of_thought_that_pervades_virtually_all_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/17\/my_debate_analysis_defies_the_uniformity_of_thought_that_pervades_virtually_all_media\/","title":{"rendered":"My Debate Analysis Defies the Uniformity of Thought That Pervades Virtually All Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  I\u2019m seriously amazed.  I really am, ladies and gentlemen, seriously amazed at the uniformity of thought and opinion across the spectrum on the debate last night.  I must tell you, in all honesty, my view of what happened last night is not even close to what I\u2019m hearing on Fox News, on MSNBC, on CNN, in the New York Times and the Washington Post.  Well, actually, you know, some of the newspaper editorials are closer to the way I saw this last night than some of the people on television. <\/p>\n<p>Let me start out by stating something patently obvious.  Maybe put it to you in the form of a question.  Addressing one of the things that I have detected that people on our side are most concerned about, <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14241\">outside of Candy Crowley<\/a>, which we\u2019ll deal with here in just a second.  <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14268\">Libya.<\/a>  Romney had a big opening.  He didn\u2019t close it.  He didn\u2019t secure it.  He could have said, &#8220;What are you talking about, terror attack?  You blamed a video for two weeks.&#8221;  He didn\u2019t say that. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68326\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRomneyObamaCandy.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Are any of you not going to vote for Mitt Romney because he didn\u2019t have something to say at a crucial moment that you wanted him to say?  Is somebody gonna vote for Barack Obama that wasn\u2019t going to because Mitt Romney didn\u2019t say, &#8220;You were talking about a video for two weeks.&#8221;  No, of course not.  There weren\u2019t any votes lost by Romney last night, <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14240\">and there weren\u2019t any votes gained by Obama<\/a>.  Seriously.  So the whole notion I\u2019m hearing of scoring this thing on points, this isn\u2019t a college debate where you lose for technique according to some scoring system.  This was an entirely different dynamic, and it\u2019s one that Obama came nowhere near overcoming.  The problem that he had going in is not one that he got anywhere near solving. <\/p>\n<p>My friends, I want you to know something here.  I\u2019m not speaking with preferences guiding my comments, and I\u2019m not speaking with hope or false promises.  I\u2019m shooting you straight as best I can.  I watched this debate last night and I saw another halting, choppy, staccato-speaking Barack Obama, wandering aimlessly, speaking in theory, speaking in faculty lounge lizard theoretical non-reality.  I saw cliche after cliche.  I heard liberal cliche after cliche. <\/p>\n<p>The first question was some college kid who wants to know about a job and Obama talks to him about manufacturing jobs?  This kid isn\u2019t going to college to learn how to weld.  He\u2019s not going to college to find a manufacturing job. And Obama answers his question that way?  Through most of this debate I was thinking, here\u2019s Romney, Mr. Smooth, he is in total command of the facts.  He is once again totally decimating Obama\u2019s economic performance.  Obama, in his closing remarks, was reduced to sounding like me, when everybody knows he doesn\u2019t believe a word of what he said.  He doesn\u2019t believe in rugged individualism.  He doesn\u2019t believe in self-reliance.  He doesn\u2019t believe in any of those things. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IjVABCcAgYY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why doesn\u2019t that matter when people start scoring these debates?  They look at these debates and they score some system that\u2019s foreign to me.  Style points or any number of odd things that are irrelevant in a presidential campaign.  But I didn\u2019t see Barack Obama dazzling anybody with a defense of his record.  I didn\u2019t hear Barack Obama talk about his great plans for the future.  I heard Barack Obama even at one point say &#8220;when I was president&#8221; as though it\u2019s in the past tense.  I saw a nervous, staccato speaking, choppy. In fact, everybody talks about how Romney got a raw deal from Candy Crowley, and he did, but it is what it is. <\/p>\n<p>There was a point in that debate last night &#8212; Kathryn and I are sitting there watching it &#8212; and I was so stunned by what I saw that I hit the pause on the DVR.  And I said, &#8220;Do you realize what we just saw here?&#8221;  And what it was was a full-fledged destruction of the Obama record by Mitt Romney.  Every stat you could want.  Household income falling, unemployment up, the number of people out of the workforce, the number of jobs lost since Obama took office, the number of people totally out of work, 23 million.  Every economic statistic that detailed the crumbling aspects of this regime.  And Candy Crowley &#8212; on second thought, maybe she did him a favor &#8212; did not let Obama respond.  She didn\u2019t make Romney stop prematurely, he finished, and then she went on to the next question. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68327\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROmneyObamaDebate2_Back3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Now that I think about it, and now that we know what we know, there\u2019s no question she was trying to save Obama by making sure he didn\u2019t have to deal with that.  But the bottom line is, for everybody who thinks that Romney had a minor screw-up here because he didn\u2019t point out that Obama had been saying it\u2019s a video for two weeks, Obama did not have a syllable to say in refutation, in disagreement with Romney\u2019s sterling recitation of his failures.  There wasn\u2019t one retort. There wasn\u2019t one reply to it. There wasn\u2019t one accusation that Romney had said anything that wasn\u2019t true. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, today, the day after, the only people who are accused of saying things that are not true are Barack Obama and Candy Crowley, not Mitt Romney.  I kid you not.  That\u2019s the debate I saw.  I once again saw an Obama who looked uncomfortable and unprepared and full of, &#8220;Eh, uh, eh, uh.&#8221;  I didn\u2019t see Mr. Smooth. I didn\u2019t see Mr. In Command of Facts. I didn\u2019t see anybody who was eager to defend his performance and his record.  Folks, I\u2019m gonna apologize to you because I simply do not have a recollection or an analysis of what I saw last night that is anywhere close to what I\u2019ve seen &#8212; and I haven\u2019t seen it all &#8212; to what I saw on television last night. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I have some friends, I must admit, exchanging e-mails and texts during the debate. They\u2019re naturally nervous, worried about this detail or that detail, wish Romney would have said that, Candy Crowley is a cheating, lying moderator, all that sort of stuff.  But I look at it in a much different way.  Romney didn\u2019t lose a vote last night.  Quite the opposite, I think he picked up even more undecided voters last night, folks.  And Obama surely didn\u2019t gain any votes out of that Libya exchange. The Drive-Bys continue to forget that what happened last night is now in the ether, and we have a chance now with the New Media and the net, everything else, to put it all in perspective. <\/p>\n<p>It used to be that a lie takes place on television, and that goes around the world, then the next day the correction takes place, which nobody sees.  That\u2019s out the window now.  More people are hearing about Obama\u2019s lies and Candy Crowley\u2019s lies than saw them apparently get away with it last night.  More people are having the truth explained to them today than saw what they thought was the truth last night.  Now, let\u2019s talk about this scoring system, \u2019cause the inside-the-Beltway wizards of smart are all looking&#8230; and I don\u2019t mean to sound sarcastic.  Just my natural flair for description. <\/p>\n<p>(interruption)<\/p>\n<p>I know. I did call it. All Obama had to do was show up and <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14248\">they were gonna call him the Comeback Kid<\/a>. They had the story written before the debate happened. But he\u2019s not the Comeback Kid, folks. I\u2019m telling you: In the deep, dark crevices of their minds, the Democrats and the consultants and the media people on the left know full well that this was not what they\u2019re portraying it to be. This was not a game-shifting event last night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68328\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROmneyObamaDebate2_Back2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Now, let me get specific and put some of this in context for you. I think, ladies and gentlemen, the analytical problem here is that the geniuses and the analysts and the experts in Washington inside the Beltway, judge these debates as if it\u2019s a horse race or a chess game in which both people start out even and there\u2019s nothing that\u2019s happened before. They look at these things as taking place almost in a vacuum or a self-contained environment.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not reality.<\/p>\n<p>You see after four years, nothing Obama says matters. He\u2019s been president for four years! He can\u2019t say, &#8220;Wouldn\u2019t you love four more years of this?&#8221; He cannot say, &#8220;Are you better off today than you were four years ago?&#8221; We\u2019re not starting off at the starting line with everybody equal here. We\u2019re starting off with Obama in a huge hole, and it\u2019s a hole so deep that there\u2019s no amount of rhetoric that can get him out of it, and there are no amount of Romney &#8220;stumbles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stumble&#8221; being defined as, &#8220;Gosh, I wish he woulda said this then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t make a fool of himself. He didn\u2019t say anything wrong. He came across once again as confident, assured, informed, steady. Nothing of game-changing status happened. See, these guys, ladies and gentlemen, are not trying to get the same thing out of these debates. People, voters, have already made up their minds about Obama. One debate, when people have made up their minds on Obama, particularly about education and the economy and so forth and Libya, doesn\u2019t change anything.<\/p>\n<p>Just because a bunch of lies were told last night does not erase the truth that they went out and they said, &#8220;It was a video,&#8221; and they sent administration figures out for two weeks saying, &#8220;It was a video!&#8221; Obama can sit there with the aid of Candy Crowley all night and claim, &#8220;I did call it a terrorist attack. Here, Candy, read \u2019em the transcript.&#8221; Everybody knows he didn\u2019t! They don\u2019t need Romney.<\/p>\n<p>The audience didn\u2019t need Romney to point out that Obama was lying; the audience already knew it. What\u2019s going on in this country, what\u2019s happening here is that people are really meeting Romney for the first time. Not guys like us, folks, who are political junkies. I\u2019m talking about millions of people who don\u2019t tune in to this stuff closely except at election time every few years.<\/p>\n<p>They have seen the Romney portrayed by Obama and the campaign in TV commercials. They\u2019ve seen Romney the felon, the tax cheat, the guy who let another man\u2019s wife die of cancer. <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14887\">That\u2019s the Romney they\u2019ve seen. <\/a>They\u2019ve seen the caricature. Now people are seeing the real Mitt Romney, and they\u2019re coming to terms with the fact that there is no dream candidate. There\u2019s Choice A or Choice B.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/117566\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Choice A, Obama, is already a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s not a debate that can change that.<\/p>\n<p>This country, this economy, as architected or authored by Obama is a disaster. Everybody knows this. Romney does not need to &#8220;win&#8221; this debate as if it were a college debate tournament. He simply has to appear as a competent, viable alternative to Obama, and he\u2019s doing that in spades. All the rest of this chatter is BS. I hear that Obama &#8220;won on points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That can be a very cynical view about debates and the audience who watched them. Won on points? What points? Is the audience so stupid that they don\u2019t recognize deceit? Is the audience watching so stupid they don\u2019t recognize lies? <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14242\">Did you see the Frank Luntz focus group <\/a>on Fox after the debate? A bunch of undecided voters? It was 90% Romney, big, hands down. People who had voted for Obama are now gonna vote for Romney.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety or eighty percent. It was a slam dunk. MSNBC had a focus group. Romney wins it! Undecided people tilt Romney. Drudge has the link. Now, the people inside the Beltway who claim that Obama won &#8220;on points&#8221; apparently believe that if a lie is not contradicted in the debate &#8212; or if the lie is told in a convincing, assertive manner &#8212; that that\u2019s a plus. That\u2019s the cynical view.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68329\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROmneyObamaDebate2_Back1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The only way you can say, &#8220;Obama won on points&#8221; is to say that he got away with lying, and that assumes the audience is a bunch of idiots. That assumes that the audience doesn\u2019t know. And I\u2019m telling you, the people watching the debate, if they\u2019re interested enough to watch the debate, know enough to know when they\u2019re being lied to. I don\u2019t believe that Mitt Romney has to point out, for example, every lie Obama is telling.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not possible, by the way. There were too many last night. If the only way Romney can win is by pointing out every lie, and if Romney\u2019s gonna lose votes because he doesn\u2019t point out Obama\u2019s lies, then it\u2019s history. But that\u2019s not the way this is gonna work! Romney\u2019s not gonna lose votes because Obama gets away with lying.<\/p>\n<p>Romney\u2019s not gonna lose votes because he doesn\u2019t call Obama on every lie. He may disappoint you. You may wish for your own satisfaction that he\u2019d gone in there and lowered the hammer, but you\u2019re not saying today, &#8220;Ah, screw Romney! To hell with it, I\u2019m not gonna vote. He had a chance to nail Obama on this video business and he didn\u2019t do it. The hell with it! I\u2019m not voting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody\u2019s saying that today. So how does he lose on points? I mean, the cynicism here that the audience doesn\u2019t know a lie and that their perception is that if somebody tells a lie and gets away with it, even though the after-debate commentator corrects everybody on it? A guy tells a lie and gets away with it and that\u2019s &#8220;winning on points&#8221;? I just don\u2019t think the American people see things this way. That\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>I must say again: I\u2019m stunned, I really am, at the uniformity of thought seemingly everywhere in the media, including Fox. I know what I saw last night. And, by the way, this horse race way these guys look at judging all this? Obama was not at the starting line last night. What is the standard by which we compare Obama? Well, there are two. A, we compare Obama to Romney. But we also compare Obama to himself.<\/p>\n<p>If you go back and you compare the <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14238\">Barack Obama of 2008 <\/a>to the Barack Obama we got last night (which is what I do), folks, it was pathetic last night. Last night was a shadow of the Barack Obama of 2008. Mr. Hope and Change, The One, Mr. Messiah, lowering the sea levels, everything to everybody. That wasn\u2019t true in \u201908, but even if people believed it, that\u2019s not the same Barack Obama last night that people voted for in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>And that is also a standard by which Obama must be compared and rated. I don\u2019t care how you do this; you don\u2019t have Obama winning on points. As I say, I\u2019ve got a little bit more I want to add on this. But really, this was not a chess game or a horse race where everybody was equal at the starting point last night. Obama had a whole lot of things to overcome, and he didn\u2019t get anywhere near it.<\/p>\n<p>Not even with the media and Candy Crowley\u2019s help did he get anywhere near it. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s another very simple question: If Romney lost that debate last night, and if Obama won the debate, why all the talk today about Libya and how Obama gave a false answer and how Candy Crowley was wrong? Why is that the focus of what everybody\u2019s saying today wherever you go in the media? How does that fit? Obama wins on points but today everybody\u2019s correcting the lie that he told about Libya, aided and abetted by an incompetent hack named Candy Crowley.<\/p>\n<p>How does that equal Obama winning? Now, folks, I have to tell you something. I think when I talk about this uniformity of thought that I see everywhere in the media, I think most of you have the same reaction I had to this. I saw a stumbling, choppy Obama that looked like he was really expending a lot of effort, by the way. He didn\u2019t seem to be flowing. He didn\u2019t seem to be coming from his heart.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68339\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaLieMeter.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You know, when you really believe something, really know something, you don\u2019t need a prompter, notes, prep, or rehearsals. It\u2019s there. It\u2019s just flows. Nothing was flowing out of Obama last night. He was trying to remember cliche after cliche after theory after theory. Tell me if I\u2019m wrong. You\u2019re watching the postdebate analysis, and you see these clowns in Washington give it to Obama on points, and I\u2019ll bet your reaction is the same as mine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ah, they\u2019re just saying that \u2019cause they\u2019re inside the Beltway and they want to appear to be fair, and the rest of the media is gonna be saying Obama won and so they want to look adult and reasonable and say, &#8216;Okay, Obama won this one,\u2019 because there\u2019s no sweat off anybody\u2019s back.&#8221; So you look at them as going along with the crowd rather than telling you what they really thought. That was my reaction when I saw the postdebate analysis, and I\u2019m sure that\u2019s what you thought, too, in many cases.<\/p>\n<p>But the cynical view that if somebody in a debate gets away a lie, if the other guy doesn\u2019t correct the lie, he wins? I don\u2019t understand. When I know one guy\u2019s lying, I get upset that Romney let it go, but that doesn\u2019t equal Obama winning. Not to me. Not here. Maybe in the way you score a college or high school debate. In fact, to me, with the stakes were there, and with Obama and the task he\u2019s got&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s gotta overcome two things. He\u2019s gotta overcome a four-year record and he\u2019s gotta overcome the image people had of him in 2008, and don\u2019t discount that. Obama has a bunch of standards he\u2019s up against that he\u2019s failing on big time. The reason people voted for him&#8230; Stop and now think of this: The reason people voted for Obama 2008, there was no evidence of that same guy on that stage last night.<\/p>\n<p>That was not the same person, and that matters to people watching the debate who voted for Obama four years ago. It\u2019s totally missed. It\u2019s not accounted for by professional analysts. See, I think most of the audience knows all about the video and Obama using it and blaming it for the terrorist attack &#8212; which he didn\u2019t even call &#8220;a terrorist attack&#8221; for a week. That\u2019s another lie that got through. Everybody\u2019s focusing on that today, correcting his lie about that, but the regime put that out to the world.<\/p>\n<p>The regime went on <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14476\">The View<\/a>. They went at the United Nations six times. They told the world for two weeks it was a video. We put the guy who did the video in jail. The Sunday talk shows, the audience knew last night whether Romney pointed it out or not, that Candy Crowley and Barack Obama were lying. How is that Obama won on points? Lying in a debate is a negative. That\u2019s why there\u2019s always a flurry of fact-checking afterwards, because lying is a negative.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68340\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romneylong-banner.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t score points lying. Lying is minus one and getting caught on it is minus two, if we\u2019re gonna do the point system. See, I think, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the problem with the Democrat Party. In their world, lies are counted as truth if each one is not refuted. So, as far as they\u2019re concerned, Obama got away with it last night. He got away with lying. He and Candy got away with it \u2019cause Mitt didn\u2019t call \u2019em on it. So in their corrupt world, a lie is counted as the truth.<\/p>\n<p>So, as far as the Democrats are concerned, as of last night Obama called it a terrorist attack that day or the next day. That\u2019s what they live with. He told a lie, Obama got away with it, and Romney didn\u2019t correct it. So therefore the lie is now the truth. The problem is, most of the country doesn\u2019t live that way. It doesn\u2019t operate that way. And truth be told, when they found out, they\u2019re not gonna let the Democrat Party get away with that.<\/p>\n<p>But to score points on somebody getting away with an un-refuted lie? Sorry, I don\u2019t understand it. I don\u2019t think the American people are numb to lies. Not the people watching this debate, anyway. Democrats get away with a lot of them, I know, but in this situation, with all this focus and all this attention? How could there be so many people upset with Romney for letting Romney get away with it if they didn\u2019t know Obama was lying to begin with?<\/p>\n<p>But the bottom line is, ladies and gentlemen: Romney did not lose any votes last night because he didn\u2019t call Obama on every lie Obama told, including Libya. And by the same token Obama didn\u2019t gain any, and that\u2019s all that\u2019s important here. That\u2019s all this is about. It isn\u2019t about points. It isn\u2019t about who got away with what. And Obama did not accomplish what he had to accomplish to reverse the direction, to reverse the momentum, to stanch the bleeding, whatever phrase that you want to use.<\/p>\n<p>I just don\u2019t believe that lying wins debates. Not with us here. Not with the New Media here. What happened last night is a confirmation of what we know. Liberalism is a lie, liberals are liars, and that\u2019s the first path they take if they think they can get away with it. But it\u2019s important also realize that if you happen to see any videotape, replays, highlights, or whatever of this you\u2019ll see in many instances Obama was really laboring.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68338\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was expending a lot of effort to come up with the next sentence, the next thought, the next cliche, the next thing that he and some bud were talking about in some room when they were theorizing if they ran everything it would be good. But the people that are running things don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about, \u2019cause they\u2019re a bunch of crooks. The Steve Wynns, Donald Trumps, all the successful people are a bunch of crooks. But Obama and his professorial theoreticians, authoritarian statists?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, give them the power! They\u2019ll fix this.&#8221; Right. Well, four years later, where are we? We also learned last night that the old media will enable these liars and they will facilitate them and they will help them. So thank you, Candy Crowley, for making our point. As for Candy Crowley, I think she actually did a worse job than <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14372\">Jim Lehrer<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14315\">Martha Raddatz<\/a>. Now, granted she interrupted Romney 28 times, and she only interrupted Obama nine times.<\/p>\n<p>But she kept feeding Obama lines.<\/p>\n<p>She did, folks. She kept feeding him lines. She kept prompting. You Democrats, you have to realize that he couldn\u2019t have done this last night without her assistance. That was obvious, too. We put together&#8230; We like to illustrate things. We put together a condensed version of the debate. If you didn\u2019t see the debate last night, we put together a short little contested version to give you a little bit of an idea of it from my perspective.<\/p>\n<p>(playing of debate spoof)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;And thank you for being with us at tonight\u2019s presidential debate. Join us next week for the next one.&#8221; That\u2019s basically how it went last night. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Ladies and gentlemen, there\u2019s another debate.  It\u2019s next week.  I forget what day it is.  I just know I\u2019ll know it when it happens.  It\u2019s Monday?  I got a debate up against Monday Night Football?  Okay.  It\u2019s a foreign policy debate moderated by Bob Schieffer, Slay the Nation.  Let me just ask you a quick question:  Do you think Obama and Bob Schieffer are going to get away with the Benghazi lie next week?  So what good was getting away with it last night?  And they didn\u2019t, by the way.  At the moment, they got away with it, and our guys Inside the Beltway scored it, and Obama won on points, yeah, Obama lied, Romney didn\u2019t refute it, slam dunk Obama.  Sorry, it\u2019s not how the voters see this stuff. <\/p>\n<p>What was Obama\u2019s great line last night?  What was his great policy argument?  What was his great defense of his record?  What did he say that helped him or hurt Romney?  (imitating Obama) &#8220;Romney wants to kill <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14329\">Big Bird <\/a>and Planned Parenthood, that\u2019s right, Planned Parenthood. Romney investments in China.&#8221;  Oh, you know, that\u2019s another thing.  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