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RUSH: Michael in Cleveland\u2019s been waiting for quite a while, and I appreciate it.  It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir.  Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.  I just wanted to make a brief point.  Earlier in the program you mentioned<\/a> that a lot of Trump supporters, you know, maybe knew a lot of what he was talking about when he was missing the low-hanging fastballs and that half of Hillary\u2019s supporters probably even knew that.  My question is, or my point is that I think he did miss a golden opportunity because, by that analysis, half of Hillary supporters don\u2019t know these things about the Clinton Foundation, about the emails, about Benghazi, and I think that\u2019s sort of maybe what upset some people that support him. Not so much that, you know, he didn\u2019t say what we know, but with a hundred million people watching, you know, maybe, you know, 20 million don\u2019t know some of these —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Ah, that\u2019s a good point.<\/p>\n

CALLER:   — because of the Drive-By Media.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  That\u2019s a good point.  That is a good point.  It was an opportunity to inform others who may not know because all they read is the Drive-Bys and the Drive-Bys cover this stuff up.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Exactly.  So I think that\u2019s why some people on our side were going, “Gosh, you know, you missed, you missed, you missed.”  And it wasn\u2019t that, you know, we wanted to hear him preach to the choir, but, you know, a golden opportunity with all those eyeballs on that debate last night.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  So you were one of the ones that was disappointed.  Do you think he hurt himself at all by this?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I don\u2019t think he hurt himself.  I agree with you on the fact that he\u2019s talking to the people, and, you know, we want him to fight even more. As someone that\u2019s a supporter I\u2019m on the fence with him a little bit, but I don\u2019t think he hurt himself. But I do think he missed some opportunities to get some of the moderate people on board to draw attention to some of these items that, like you said —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yeah, that\u2019s a good point.<\/p>\n

CALLER:   — they were just low hanging fastballs.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Whether they\u2019re moderates or wackos, it doesn\u2019t matter.  That\u2019s an excellent point, that by not mentioning it, he missed the chance to educate and force others to be talk about it, force her to talk about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, look, there are two more debates.  And one thing I saw, I saw a Trump tweet after the debate. It wasn\u2019t a complaint.  He was noting that there were no questions on Benghazi, there were no questions on the emails, and there was no questions on the Clinton Foundation. And I have to say, I looked at that and said, “Donald, doesn\u2019t matter.  That\u2019s why you\u2019re there.  If Lester doesn\u2019t bring \u2019em up, bring \u2019em up yourself.  You can answer any question Lester asks you with anything you want to say.  Lester could ask you about race relations and you could launch into the foundation.” <\/p>\n

Of course, Lester\u2019s gonna say, “Mr. Trump, you didn\u2019t answer my question,” in which you can say, “You\u2019re not asking good questions, Lester.”  There\u2019s any number of ways of doing this.  But I know what happens in this situation.  I think I know what happened.  It did not happen during the Republican debates \u2019cause there were 15 or 16 people up there with him.  But I think this is the first one. <\/line><\/p>\n

Folks, we\u2019re overlooking something here, or maybe not giving it enough weight.  This was a big deal last night for Trump.  I\u2019m not making any excuses here by any stretch.  Don\u2019t anybody misunderstand me here.  I\u2019ve done radio all my life.  The first time I did television, I was petrified.  I was so self-conscious, \u2019cause I wasn\u2019t experienced at it.  It\u2019s a whole different thing than radio, where I have literally no nervousness, qualms, self-consciousness. On TV it\u2019s all different. <\/p>\n

I was talking about Arnold Palmer yesterday.  I met Arnold Palmer at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.  Bob Hope was still alive.  It was the last year that Bob Hope actually attended the tournament, and I was paired with Arnold Palmer on day one. And my partners were Tom Glavine of the Atlanta Braves and Chris Chandler of the Atlanta Falcons.  I don\u2019t play golf for a living, but I\u2019ve got this giant television audience, I\u2019m in Arnold Palmer\u2019s foursome meeting him for the first time.  I am nervous as I can be. <\/p>\n

On the first tee I\u2019m just praying — it was over water — I was just praying, I don\u2019t care what it looks like, just don\u2019t let me hit this in the water. I end up birdieing the hole with like a 50-foot putt, and Arnold Palmer says, “I\u2019m impressed.”  And I said, “Mr. Palmer, I am so nervous, I can\u2019t begin to tell you.”  And I think Trump last night — I\u2019m not saying he was nervous, don\u2019t misunderstand.  I\u2019m saying he did something last night that hasn\u2019t been done in our lifetime, somebody that\u2019s not in politics do something like that against somebody, whoever it is, who has made a lifetime of it. <\/p>\n

And I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Trump were a little self-conscious last night, and when you\u2019re self-conscious, you\u2019re not focused.  When you\u2019re thinking about yourself, however, for whatever reason, and that might be one of the low-hanging fruit.  If it doesn\u2019t occur to you naturally and you get distracted trying to remember when or what you should say — Look, folks, I leave this program every day, I go home beating myself practically every day up for failing to get something in that I really wanted to talk about.  It\u2019s not that I forgot it; I just didn\u2019t budget my time well.  I always think I could have done this better.  I\u2019m sure Trump is the same way.  But the next time he does this he\u2019s gonna be better, because he\u2019s gonna have some experience at having done it under his belt.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trump got beat up for this last night, for having the sniffles.  He didn\u2019t have the sniffles last night.  Because I am a highly trained broadcast specialist who understands the technology here.  That\u2019s how Trump was breathing.  They have positioned the mic — I don\u2019t know — not charging anything here, but his mic was positioned in such a way that you were able to hear him inhale. <\/p>\n

He was breathing through his nose because it\u2019s more polite to do that than to open your mouth wide and then breathe.  And you can hear when people do that, too.  If you listen to radio — a broadcast professional knows when to breathe and how to breathe and you can hear it.  It\u2019s like stage spit.  Do you know what stage spit is?  Stage spit is the sign of a highly professional live performer.  I first bore witness to this, interestingly enough, when I was attending the Super Bowl in San Diego.<\/p>\n